Ask Naoki Yoshida Your Questions for the PAX East 2023 Panel

I am a blind player. Starting in the 2.x patches (With the Leviathan fight) the game has amazing sound effect design to let me play this game quite literally blind, however much of the 2.0 content still remains relatively blind unfriendly. Given the overhauls to make the game more accessible to first timers, MMO or otherwise, could you consider any plans to add sound cuing back to older dungeons/fights to make them play like 2.x and later?

will we ever get a barefoot glamour option?

are there plans for hrothgar and viera to have full helmet / hat support any time soon?

Happy 10th Anniversary, Yoshi-P and the team!

1) What is your favorite location/zone or one that's left an impression on you over the past 10 years in the game? It could be due to a behind the scenes development story or overall aesthetic.

2) What is your personal aim for Final Fantasy XIV for the next 10 years? Whether in gameplay, story, or as an MMO in general.

Can SE please at least bring back the Calamity Retold's FATE back to commemorate the 10th FFXIV Anniversary on The Rising event?

Hello! My question is, was there any point that you felt like you were in over your head during the end of 1.0 and the beginning of A Realm Reborn?
Was there any distinct moment you recall that tempted you to quit and leave the company, and how did you manage to endure and "Forge Ahead" up to now?
Thanks for all you do, and please don't forget to take care of yourselves!

Is there any way the Unending Codex could be used to integrate side content (such as the Shadowbringers role quest capstone quests) into the MSQ by letting you know what content you need to do or letting you toggle on spoilers for that content?

Are there any plans in the future were you guys do a job reveal at Walmart in the home crafts isle were u spilled green pop all over the floor and walk all slow through it like your in the old version of the Totorok lvl 24 dungeon?

The feast had some of the most unique and cool looking rewards in the game, are there any plans to re introduce these? Would be nice if they could be Series malmstones rewards or exchangable for Trophy Crystals/Wolf Collars Currency.

Why do we not see any members of Vrtra's brood? Does he simply not have one, and if so, why?

It has been 10 years since ARR released and I still want to know more about the Heart of Sabik, are there plans to delve more into it? Please say yes!

Hello Yoshida-san and team!! I really loved the G-Warrior piloting section during the Sorrow of Werlyt questline, are there plans to bring it back for future expansions?? Please say yes!

Hello and thank you for making the offer to post questions!

I've always wondered how the concept works in expanding the kit of an existing combat job for an upcoming expansion.
What is the procedure of creating new PvE Actions for a specific job?

You have managed to impress players every time a new expansion released when a PvE Job got an improved or revised repertoire regarding both effects and their animations. I want to say thank you for releasing Job Action trailers to show off what work you have put in that matter and to get us excited for what to come.

Any plans on revamping the glamour system in 7.0?

To elaborate, a glamour system akin to WOW's transmogrification system would do this game wonders. Being able to save more than 20+ plates. Being able to have a catalog of all the armor pieces you can get in game that allows you to try it out without having it on hand.

It would be awesome and QoL enhancing if armor that you received from doing content gets automatically unlocked, and you don't have to store it in the glamour dresser/armoire. It is automatically stored for you in such a catalog.

Thank you for your time.

is it possible to add old ultimate weapons(ucob, uwu, tea) for the new jobs?

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Is there any way the Unending Codex could be used to integrate side content (such as the Shadowbringers role quest capstone quests) into the MSQ by letting you know what content you need to do or letting you toggle on spoilers for that content?

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itd be nice if it uploaded old content too like theres alot of side/misc quest that i cant access any information on

Are there any plans to reduce or remove the entry barrier for future Criterion Dungeons (like how gear from other content wasn't a requirement to participate in Bozja related content) so that we can play this content with a different role than we did in Savage raids and so that players who don't engage with Savage raiding aren't alienated from this content?

Are there any plans to revamp and modernize the boss fights in the Crystal Tower raid series?

Hello and thank you for making and continuing to make a wonderful game.

As a player from Australia, I created an account in EU. As an EU account holder, I have no way to access Limited Edition Mounts such as:

- Flying Cumulus
- Porxie King

Can you please consider making the world more united by enabling promotional items to be region unlocked or available worldwide.

Thank you for your consideration

With the graphics update coming in 7.0, are there any plans to add extra dye channels to dyeable gear, even if it's initially only for new gear?

1) When Viera race will be able to wear HATS? :')
2) Are there any plans to allow players to dye chocobo bardings?
3) Are there any plans to add more items like parasol for example into the game?

While I am sure that the current fans could keep XIV afloat, how will you change the game so that more people can access content? Currently the game is expanding ever larger and can be daunting to a new player and unfortunately scare them away. The low level battle rotation may contribute to this, being very slow.

In addition, players new and old to the MMO genre have no way of knowing what a job feels like until it is fully leveled. A secondary question, will there be a way to demo job actions in the future before selecting a class? Possibly a demo with Lahabrea as each class or a "recruiter" in the city states that lets you go into an instance and see what a job is like at level cap?

A third last question, with the new graphics update coming, will there ever be a networking update to help the game feel more responsive or does it tie in to too many systems and would break too many things in fixing this issue?

Also, is there a possibility of getting Final Fantasy XV and old Yokai-Watch events again in the future?

Since the dev team worked out how to adjust the character creator so Hrothgar can choose their hairstyle, is it possible to expand the application of this approach and add an extra customisation choice for other races? For example, would it be suitable for allowing Au Ra to choose their horn shape?

Would it be possible to introduce gear with a /visor-like functionality to toggle certain parts on/off (i.e. armor with a cape that can be toggled on/off, outfits with a coat/jacket that can be toggled on/off, etc.)?

I am concerned that the more detailed appearance of recent gear designs is having a negative effect on dyeing the gear. Particularly for metal textures, the dye colour often ends up blotchy and does not colour the entire piece. This is very disappointing, because it makes it very hard to dye pieces to match each other, and it is happening a lot with newer gearsets.

I wrote a longer post about the problem here: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...and-dyeability

Will the characters from the 5.x Void Quests (Unukalhai, Taynor, Beq Lugg, etc) have any sort of presence in the MSQ?

Any plans to recreate more FFXI classic gear such as the Walahra Turban?

This was a great feature of Eureka

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When will we see the new Flame General (Pipin Tarupin) in action and learn more about him? We adventured with him a lot in Stormblood and he's filling Raubahn's place in Ul'dah... I want to see him grow as a character too!

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He won't grow he's a lala:P

i have a Few Requests to yoshi and dev team as well regarding the Present and Future and whats to come for the game im excitedly waiting for 7.0 new classes and relics to farm
1)are there any plans in the present or in the future to add Gear drops to Criterion&variant dungeons or alternative ways of getting BIS gear other than savages themselves
2) are there any plans on loosening the Weekly lockout someday so that people can start farming gear more often
3)are there any plans on making a Relic zone for older expansion Relics to be similar to what Eureka and Bozja is

Hello! I’m a huge fan of Fourteen as well as the other ones. But my interest is more on Ff2. I was wondering, did the Emperor of FFXIV (Zenos?) correlate with the Emperor of 2? How does the dev team think of all these creative ways of integrating previous numbers into XIV like they do? Or is the Zenos not the Emperor and if not, will we ever see another version of him in the future? I just really love his old design from FF2

Have you considered allowing players to purchase the old event consumables?

Would it be possible to get more Ishgardian styled furnishings such as the couch from the Fortempts Manor, the armchair from Aymeric's home or the outdoor Coerthan plants we see around Ishgard?

When will you fix/ban Market Board bots and when will you tighten the rules on preventing players owning more than one house.

Has Square Enix ever considered offering a combined subscription for FFXI + FFXIV?

Which Final Fantasy games are Yoshi and Koji’s favorite that they did not work on?

Will we get more Haukke Manor furnishings in the future?

With the graphical changes coming to the game, is there any chance that you can merge the main 3 arr maps zones and merge them into 1 giant map similar to the expansions map format!? i want to see the black shroud, la noscea, and thanalan as 1 huge map if its possible.

Are there any plans to improve the usability of adventurer portraits in instanced duties? Many players have to resort to workarounds such as linking one of their limited glamour plates to each gearset with a portrait or get frustrated at the amount of manual checks required to make sure your current gear and the gear displayed in your portrait are perfectly matching.

Are there any plans to expand the options of what we can include in our Adventurer Plates? It would be nice if we could replace the elements there with other info such as Patron Deity, the current level of our jobs, Crystal Conflict tier in the current ranked season, starting City, private estate address, number of minions/mounts, achievement points, etc.