FINAL FANTASY XIV Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXV

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Q25: When will you be implementing a bent version of the bunny ears from the Gold Saucer?

A25: (An image of the bent bunny ears was shown.)

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And they care the bent of bunny ears more than make it for male...

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Originally Posted by Nalien

http://i.imgur.com/RNDEnY0.png

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So the 2 star AF2 become useless to craft?

Finally, some news.

Just two more weeks ^_^

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

Ugh.... They're adding NPC outfits---

As cash shop items.

That's disgusting.

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Wait.. they have said it will be in cash shop?

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Originally Posted by Eul

So the 2 star AF2 become useless to craft?

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I imagine you'd want it to make the new stuff coming... The materia melding stuff is only for STR/DEX/VIT/MND/INT/PIE, so you can still overmeld crafting/gathering stuff with their respective stats (and combat gear with Crit/etc.), and melding purchased gear was specifically tomestones/raid gear, not Red Scrips stuff.

I'm definitely looking forward to Gil having a purpose now... Some might complain that you need materia now, but... Well, how many are running around in i200 and not chasing i210? You'll be able to meld new tomestone stuff to make it better if you want, just like you can go after Gobdip to improve AF2 if you want.

Those materia changes... So we all need(well, you know what I mean) to pentameld our gear in 3.2 o.O And it's probably gonna be materia V then.

I need to start making gil/farm materia in 3.1

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Originally Posted by StrejdaTom

Wait.. they have said it will be in cash shop?

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unless I am misunderstanding:

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Q24: Do you have plans to add 3.0’s Y’shtola and Ysayle’s hairstyle?

A24: We’re planning to introduce a set of equipment and hairstyle which will allow players to look like NPCs as Mog Station optional items. Minfilia’s hairstyle and equipment will be added. The price hasn’t been decided yet, but this one is female-only equipment. (Showed an image of characters dressed as Minfilia.)

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Good that the NPC stuff is in Mog Station. I don't want a bunch of people running around in what honestly should stay unique NPC models...

crafting and gathering melding is still safe i think.

IMO they take the crafting and gathering melding as role model for battle class melding, in crafting you cant melding a control focused gear (head,hand,shoes) with a full craftmanship (that will be OP, really really OP), unlike tank acc where you can full meld STR materia to VIT Acc, vice versa.

Well.. atleast they are again reusing old stuff to sell rather than creating completely new stuff.
I am not glad about this, but it is better than if they created new stuff specially for mogstation..

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Originally Posted by StrejdaTom

Well.. atleast they are again reusing old stuff to sell rather than creating completely new stuff.
I am not glad about this, but it is better than if they created new stuff specially for mogstation..

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I will never understand this "It could be worst" attitude. It's already worst than it should be: All items being available via in-game actions as well as available on the Mog $tation as a shortcut. What would be so bad about that? You'd be able to throw your money at it if you're lazy, or you could earn it in the game. Why are the glamor options being kept exclusive to the Mog $tation when we, paying a sub, should expect to be able to obtain the items?

This isn't SWTOR.

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

Ugh.... They're adding NPC outfits---

As cash shop items.

That's disgusting.

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If that's true I'll leave for a F2P or B2P MMO. At least it would be the same, but without the sub. It could be even better in some cases *Looks at the retainers' rent*

I really REALLY hope that that's not the case.

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

Good that the NPC stuff is in Mog Station. I don't want a bunch of people running around in what honestly should stay unique NPC models...

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I would prefer them to be NPC (Normal Paying Customer) models myself.

the day i need to pentameld tome/raiding gear is the day i quit ...lol , btw potions food and repairs i have enough gil sinks D:

I'm excited to see search options on crafting and gathering logs, I've been wanting that for a long time, but....

MORE FEMALE ONLY OPTIONS. Ugh! I'm getting really sick and tired of this, and what are the odds that they will release a unisex 'male' glamor? High.

So many things in this live letter that simply outright infuriate me, even just reading through the transcript thread........ like. WTH. All "meh" and "/angry", basically. Idek anymore.......... :/ I guess it's underlining things people I know have quit for.

Mudra. Changes. MUDRA. CHANGES.

I'm happy that 1.0 gathering is coming back as Gold Saucer mini games ^^
Now everyone can try out how we gathered during 1.0

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

I will never understand this "It could be worst" attitude. It's already worst than it should be: All items being available via in-game actions as well as available on the Mog $tation as a shortcut. What would be so bad about that? You'd be able to throw your money at it if you're lazy, or you could earn it in the game. Why are the glamor options being kept exclusive to the Mog $tation when we, paying a sub, should expect to be able to obtain the items?

This isn't SWTOR.

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World
https://us.battle.net/shop/en/produc...f-the-firelord
Of
https://us.battle.net/shop/en/produc...ering-darkness
Warcraft?
https://us.battle.net/shop/en/produc...eternal-winter

So I dunno, they sell helmets and they are still sub based, so if you wanna make an accurate example you may wanna use WoW and not SWTOR that nickle and dimes everywhere else in their game. On top of that man 25 dollar world transfer compared to 18 for XIV, 10 dollar for fantasia compared to 15 for an "APPEARANCE" change and 25 to change your race.

So ya honestly SE is so generous in the prices they charge for their services compared to an MMO that's been out for years and charges the prices they do which is honestly ridiculous compared to XIV. That's just my two cents though, comparing to SWTOR isn't honestly the best example you could use cause there is another MMO that fits the example of XIV better and it's WoW.

Honestly, in this day and age and in terms of a sub game, who would argue for anything to be in the Cash Shop? I mean since the cash shop was announced, I heard people say "As long as non-powerful items are sold then it's ok". Then it was "As long as non-powerful items and just dyes, it's ok".

Now, anyone can argue that dyes, minions, outfits, fantasias, and mounts are their goals and the shop is infringing on their fun. As this is subjective, they would be right, but man, what could be sold there that wouldn't piss people off?

I see the continue to keep pushing to see how far they can take the cash shop. After they themselves said they wanted to keep NPC's as "Unique" characters anyone with a wallet can have key characters outfit. Tataru doesn't care enough about you to make it ingame.

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

Ugh.... They're adding NPC outfits---

As cash shop items.

That's disgusting.

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If they add the Garlean outfits into the cash shop I will legitimately be pissed, I don't want this to turn into Fan Service the Game. Some outfits are meant to be special, at least until we get a Garlean raid!

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Originally Posted by Nominous

Mudra. Changes. MUDRA. CHANGES.

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They said it may not help us with relatively high ping, I have a feeling it's just going to improve for those with low ping even more so while leaving us in the dust. =l

I wish that when you buy some of the items, say a swimming suit that is exclusive to female characters, it is then distributed to ALL your female characters. Or a minion. I don't want to purchase a minion for ONE character. Why can't they put them on all of them? It's such a pain. I wish they would do that.

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

I wish that when you buy some of the items, say a swimming suit that is exclusive to female characters, it is then distributed to ALL your female characters. Or a minion. I don't want to purchase a minion for ONE character. Why can't they put them on all of them? It's such a pain. I wish they would do that.

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I suppose a small comfort is that they usually only charge 3-5$ each for a full outfit set (or individual pieces).

Far better than 20$ for a single costume that only goes on a single character, like some other games. Granted, they're mostly f2p games, but I digress.

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Originally Posted by Kaoru_Nagisa

I suppose a small comfort is that they usually only charge 3-5$ each for a full outfit set (or individual pieces).

Far better than 20$ for a single costume that only goes on a single character, like some other games. Granted, they're mostly f2p games, but I digress.

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That's for event items, they said they were still deciding on these new Mogstation costumes. What's to decide really? Throw 'em up for $3-5, it just makes me wonder if they'll cost $15-20.

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Originally Posted by Nalien

I imagine you'd want it to make the new stuff coming... The materia melding stuff is only for STR/DEX/VIT/MND/INT/PIE, so you can still overmeld crafting/gathering stuff with their respective stats (and combat gear with Crit/etc.), and melding purchased gear was specifically tomestones/raid gear, not Red Scrips stuff.

I'm definitely looking forward to Gil having a purpose now... Some might complain that you need materia now, but... Well, how many are running around in i200 and not chasing i210? You'll be able to meld new tomestone stuff to make it better if you want, just like you can go after Gobdip to improve AF2 if you want.

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What I mean is crafter gear not the new materia. I saw your picture and found "High-level craftable gear added from 3.2 onward will be much stronger". So current 2 star AF2 crafter gear become useless to craft?

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

I wish that when you buy some of the items, say a swimming suit that is exclusive to female characters, it is then distributed to ALL your female characters. Or a minion. I don't want to purchase a minion for ONE character. Why can't they put them on all of them? It's such a pain. I wish they would do that.

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It's a cash shop. It's more cash if you have to buy an item for all the characters you wish to have it on - simple as that, sadly. /shrug

They*are* called "optional items".

The day it becomes a problem is the day I *have* to buy something off it.

Haven't had to yet.

Things that could be glamour maybe from crafting or other parts of game are being put into cash shop.
Everyone is fine with that.

They should start selling EXP boosts, GIL boosts and bonus dungeon bosses. I doubt anyone would mind that.

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Originally Posted by Kaoru_Nagisa

I suppose a small comfort is that they usually only charge 3-5$ each for a full outfit set (or individual pieces).

Far better than 20$ for a single costume that only goes on a single character, like some other games. Granted, they're mostly f2p games, but I digress.

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3-5 for each piece actually makes it almost 20 bucks. Also cash shop stuff goes only to a single character.
I don't know but every somehow good patch announcement goes always with some BS info like this that makes me only mad.

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Originally Posted by Colorful

That's for event items, they said they were still deciding on these new Mogstation costumes. What's to decide really? Throw 'em up for $3-5, it just makes me wonder if they'll cost $15-20.

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There is no chance whole set would be 3-5.

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Originally Posted by Nadirah

They*are* called "optional items".

The day it becomes a problem is the day I *have* to buy something off it.

Haven't had to yet.

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The whole game is optional. Personal housing is optional too. Oh, I have an idea: in order to magically solve all the housing limitations and problems, let's put personal housing in the Mog Station! It will reduce the demand and it will give them more money to improve the server structure, and it's optional!

Just because something is optional for you that doesn't mean that it should be optional for someone else with a playstyle different from yours. Some people enjoy raiding, some people enjoy RPing, some people enjoy doing some PvP, and some others enjoy the cosmetic part of the game (glamours and housing). It's not okay that some of these players are told that their playstyle is "optional" and that they have to fork even more money on top of their sub (this is the important part), while the others don't.

Mind you, I don't really care about the Minfilia glamour (I don't like her), but I can't agree with these cash shop exclusives when this is something that should be available by playing the game normally.

Pegassus Mount, yes please :D

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Originally Posted by StrejdaTom

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If the set goes for 15-20 I have to wonder why I'm even paying a subscription. WildStar, a free to play MMO, has costumes that can be purchased for around that price. Not only that, but you can earn tokens to buy these items in-game, without spending a single dime! You can then store them in your glamour log, that's right, a free to play game has a cross-character glamour log, something we will likely never get. Why do we have to pay for these things and where is this money going to? It's clearly not going back into the game.

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Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur

Either you are being sarcastic or you didn't follow the link I posted. FF6 had a two "dinosaur type" dragon designs Tyrannosaur (based loosely on the Tyrannosaurus Rex) and Brachiosaur (based loosely on the Diplodocus). The monster's color pallet (tan top, pink underbelly) match up with the coloration used for the Brachiosaur in game.

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I mean I wasn't around 65 million years ago to see it for myself, but I'm pretty sure the dinosaur mob in the 3.1 video is based on the Brachiosaurus not the Diplodocus (from the shape of the skull).

Swotting up on the FFVI mob tells me that the Brachiosaur in that game was named so as an approximate phonetic match of the Japanese 'Burakioreidosu'. I don't know what that means in English because Google won't tell me, but it sounds like the localisation team used the term 'Brachiosaur' because coincidentally it sounded similar. Nothing to do with Dippy though.

And everyone knows that Dinosaurs were created by Richard Dawkins and Steven Spielberg to sell more Pepsi to heathen unbelievers.

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Originally Posted by Eul

What I mean is crafter gear not the new materia. I saw your picture and found "High-level craftable gear added from 3.2 onward will be much stronger". So current 2 star AF2 crafter gear become useless to craft?

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Don't you get crafter AF2 with red scripts? What is that 2 star?

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Originally Posted by BreathlessTao

It's a cash shop. It's more cash if you have to buy an item for all the characters you wish to have it on - simple as that, sadly. /shrug

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The community wanted a shop where you can buy an item as much as you want instead of a shop where you can buy an item only once and not anymore.
(during the time the devs started to sell fantasia bundles (1, 3 and 5) as account bonus items, long before the cash shop came online)

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Originally Posted by Eul

What I mean is crafter gear not the new materia. I saw your picture and found "High-level craftable gear added from 3.2 onward will be much stronger". So current 2 star AF2 crafter gear become useless to craft?

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I think they mean gear for battle classes, seeing as battle gear from crafting is not only expensive but useless now. Not even useful for the glamour since there's a cheaper option.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Don't you get crafter AF2 with red scripts? What is that 2 star?

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you can get crafter gear with redscrips, but you cant meld it. the stats are very close to the white gear when melded. To be able to meld the 2* gear, you need to craft it.

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Originally Posted by Doudousteve

It's a 30 minutes cooldown, the translator heard incorrectly.

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no it's a 2 hour cooldown from the moment you enter, it's only a 30 minute cooldown if you spend the entire 90 minutes in there. if you spend less time in you have to wait longer so if you spend 60 minutes in there the timer will be at 60 minutes till you can re-enter. Yoshi-P explained that the 2 hour cooldown was the only real restriction. (it was actually mentioned on the slides too)

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Q5: Roughly how long will we be playing on a single island? Will it be easy for people that do not have a lot of time to participate?

A5: A maximum of 90 minutes. After entering, you will not be able to re-enter for 120 minutes. If you are exploring for 90 minutes, you’d have 30 minutes in between when you can enter again.

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Originally Posted by Eul

What I mean is crafter gear not the new materia. I saw your picture and found "High-level craftable gear added from 3.2 onward will be much stronger". So current 2 star AF2 crafter gear become useless to craft?

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Not how crafting works.

Right now, to make 2 star recipes, you either need to over meld the Chimerical set, or you need some crafting AF2.

3.1 is adding new crafting recipes, and they mentioned no accessories in 3.1, so one would assume these new recipes will be 3 star, and 3.2 would be adding 4 star recipes...

Since each new star requires more Craftsmanship/Control, you're basically going to have to get AF2 to make the new stuff, without it you just wont meet the Craftsmanship/Control requirement. So no, I imagine AF2 will very much be the opposite of useless, with Airship Exploration giving a new source of Red Scrip materials, the crafted set is also going to be "easier" to produce, since it'll no longer solely be locked behind Red Scrips and their 450/week limit.

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Originally Posted by StrejdaTom

Well.. atleast they are again reusing old stuff to sell rather than creating completely new stuff.
I am not glad about this, but it is better than if they created new stuff specially for mogstation..

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this is completely backwards to me. if they want to make more money they should create new products.

taking something they have already created and selling it for more is blatantly ripping off the consumer.

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Originally Posted by Nalien

That materia change sucks for Tanks

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They also said they're adjusting tank damage calculations in 3.2, so that could be a huge boon to tanks as far as accessories go.

Am I the only one who's bummed out about LoV only giving 150 MGP?