What would you like to see in Live Letter LXXXIII?

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Originally Posted by MartinFreeman

Sena fired for making a bad reputation for the company on a mainstream social media platform.

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When and where? from what ive seen her post are pretty normal.

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Originally Posted by LinaAkayomi

More hairs and hats for female hrothgar
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This! And I guess some direct statement on whether the race is meant to have such oversized sleeves on clothes. I hope it's something they plan to tone down.

I would like to know where the story is going in the post patches. I know a lot of people have disagreements about the base MSQ, but I started to watch the lore videos that recently came out. Turns out, there are lots of deep background lore in this MSQ. Its the quiet things like what the NPCs are saying, the environments, symbols, and other references. All of it is sort of hidden in plain sight, so it feels promising that this is a new beginning to a bigger story. Though what, how, and when that'll be; I have no idea. I just hope it is something we can be excited for in years to come. Dawntrail might have intentionally pushed our focus away for the time being from the major plot, but still left some breadcrumbs for us to stay intrigued. (For those who go looking for them, that is.)

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Originally Posted by Rueby

[...] There's story skips and job boosts if people lack the patience to sit through it. I leveled a few characters up to EW out of boredom and maxed out their jobs, I'll tell you the game will work against you if you try to rush it. [...]

For sprouts there's the Road to 90 (or w.e level) which is a huge exp buff that guarantees that you're overleveled all the time.

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You can indeed buy skips, but two issues come into play:

1) I had a friend who bought quest skips and then completely got lost on how to progress their character.

2) For the skip to be effective, you need to buy both character level skips and quest skips. This might seem like a small expense, but most(?) of the world pays in dollars. And well, where I live, a quest skip package costs $25, which is equivalent to +/- 143 of my currency. Adding the level skip, we have a total of R$286. That’s very expensive.

I don’t think reaching level 100 is that difficult, as the MSQ provides the XP needed to reach this level easily. However, you are still required to go through all the quests or spend extra money, which causes many players to avoid even trying the game.

I expect absolutely nothing frankly. Just don't think they'd ever acknowledge a mess up with the MSQ. For many reasons. And historically they never really talk about story in those letters either.

But yeah. The one and most important thing I wish I could hear is in regards to the story. Maybe they don't have to outright say "we know it sucks, we're changing things completely going forward, a certain character is going away" etc, especially since that's spoiler territory they'd never visit. But maybe some wink wink hint at the fact that things will be going down story wise (hopefully soonish). That they DO have something actually exciting in store for us, they just hid it oh so well. Something like that is what I want to cope for.

Because right now I'm still mindboggled by how empty Dawntrail was in every story sense. I see zero setup. No new antagonists. I have no idea what Dawntrail added to the game at all. I could completely erase my memory of it and nothing would change.

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Originally Posted by Maxilor

"What would you like to see in Live Letter LXXXIII?"

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That’s right, we need an update on this romance of the ages, man and kappa.

These live letters are so predictable like all their patches so really the only thing I ever look for in these are just the random unannounced QoL. It's no wonder a lot of people cheered at the 2 dye system, its the only things that isn't more of the same rides we've had for years.

It will blow our minds away with:

-Introcution to the first Post Game story and Trial
-Second Raid Wing teaser
-Beastmaster

And other things we already knew.

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Originally Posted by Vespar

Going back to the OP's initial post... I'd like to chime in with a frivolous idea... (inspired in part by the not great Wuk Lamat voice acting in English...)

Recently, I have been playing through the game again with Japanese audio and its amazing! However, because I can understand enough of the Japanese language I can discern that the English text does not even remotely come close to that of what is said in Japanese half of the time.
I'd love to see a Japanese dialogue to direct English translation text option.

Dont get me wrong, I love the English Localization audio too, but it would be super awesome to have a literal direct translation of the spoken dialogues for those not playing the game in their native audio. Of course it'd only be needed for the voiced dialogue parts of the game.

I know its something that will never happen. But just let me dream ^_^;

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I would also love this as I'm very curious about the differences between what we get and what was originally written/intended. Actually I should try and see if anyone has gone through and done this outside of the game as I imagine it would be an interesting read (especially if you could see it beside the official translation).

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Originally Posted by Serilyn

I would also love this as I'm very curious about the differences between what we get and what was originally written/intended. Actually I should try and see if anyone has gone through and done this outside of the game as I imagine it would be an interesting read (especially if you could see it beside the official translation).

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If you find such a resource let me know :D

- that space exploration thingy not ending up as island sanctuary 2.0.
- plans for core system changes with tests starting soon (like major exp on side quests, fates of any expansion, no more freecure, fates that are mini-games, the retirement of some stats, a different approach to crafted gear for a tier, etc).
- subsequent MSQ to be more action, emotions, and engagement rather than reading unvoiced dialog between some random NPCs.
- definition of what "stress" and "challenge" they want in max-level dungeons? Force-wiping first-timers in 100-lvl dungeons to then speed run them is annoying rather than "stressful"

Would like to see more of the ff11 raid in the live letter and be shown more of side stuff.

I'll be heavily amused if they have the audacity to go: "We heard your feedback, and look forward to more Wuk Lamat in the future."

First I would like to to apologize for the MSQ and state they will correct in some form (my hope is on "it was all a dream"). Second I would like them to announce they will put more focus on Alexandra and District 9, and maybe the other Districts as well. I would like more Glamour and housing Furniture from this area. I mean just looking around at all the unique stuff they are showing off in District 9 I would love to get most of that as housing Furniture. Along with additional District 9 mounts. We have the wheeler, but if you look around you can see it in different colors, there's also the car and trucks on display as well I would love to get as mounts. So yea more District 9 Glam, Furniture, and Mounts. Maybe even a full housing location. Finally I want them to address the class issues, acknowledge the problems of Healers and Phy Ranged, and the lack of identify among classes, and show us how it will be fixed moving forward. Actual proof of them fixing the problem not just saying they will.

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Originally Posted by Wildheaven182

The company they outsourced the english localization to, sweet baby inc, which includes voice acting and directing, is highly political and well known for using blackmail, sabotage and threats to prevent companies from stopping using them.

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SBI is a consultant - they dont do voice acting or directing services. If SE literally hired them to do that, then that would be SUPER questionable on Square to hire a consultant who reviews the writing for specific representation purposes to do something not in their repertoire.

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Originally Posted by Vespar

I'd love to see a Japanese dialogue to direct English translation text option.

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I’d love to see this, though I never expect it to happen. xD

(Unofficially, translations regarding specific quests (Dark Knight) or character (Haurchefant) can be found floating around the internet. Also, Stormblood onwards, the French and German scripts are using the Japanese script for their translating and localizing instead of the English localization and might be slightly more accessible to some interested in story differences than the original Japanese.) :D

I want to see YoshiP apologize for the MSQ, and then do a backflip into a dogeza with tears in his eyes.

People have given a lot of feedback on the graphical update and I'd like to see a response to it.

I'd like them to announce they'll actually be paying attention to the forums again.

I'll be satisfied with the FFXI Alliance raid being not lame.

Maybe Beastmaster using a good pet system? A man can dream.

- Addressing the Dawntrail MSQ. They don't need to spend 20+ minutes on it of course like they did trying to explain the EXP changed to twitch chat before Endwalker's stat squish, but just a short "We are listening to player's feedback on the MSQ" would be nice.
- Gold Saucer stuff. My heart has given up on Blitzball, but my soul demands Blitzball. Overall thought, just something new would be nice and not another Leap Of Faith reskin.
- Cosmic Exploration. While the China Fanfest gave us a few small things about it, I mainly just want them to come out and confirm if it's going to be like Diadem / Firmament 2.0, or if it's going to be a swerve and we're actually getting Island Sanctuary 2.0 but this time with 200 people screaming at once about Laver being needed for way too many things.
- Beastmaster info. They don't need to go into a ton with it to keep it secret until closer to 7.2, but maybe give us an official artwork of what Beastmaster's gear will look like. Plus lets face it if they go "Beastmaster's weapon is a whip", that'll get some players' attention, if for different reasons.

Adding my voice in here for them to talk about the trans-linguistic dissatisfaction with the MSQ, and hope they explain what they see as the problem based on player feed back and honest retrospection, and give us an idea of what they're cooking up to make sure the next installment is better. ^^

Nah, unfortunately think we'll get business as usual, only apology we'll likely see is about savage because they pretty much already have. Development is likely several patches deep already, so story changes are beyond unlikely, unless they already have a back up plan. So yeah there is really no point in them apologizing for the msq as it'll be that quality till next expansion. I mean realistically should just see some stuff about 7.1 maybe the info about the field zone and cosmic exploration that came during China Fanfest thats about it really. Beastmaster slated for end of expansion so prolly wont see anything for a while.

=PVP stuff, frontline balancing(probably not) + hoping Rival Wings gets a revival or at least a new frontline map where it isn't about licking ice.

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Originally Posted by ZXN

- Addressing the Dawntrail MSQ. They don't need to spend 20+ minutes on it of course like they did trying to explain the EXP changed to twitch chat before Endwalker's stat squish, but just a short "We are listening to player's feedback on the MSQ" would be nice.
- Gold Saucer stuff. My heart has given up on Blitzball, but my soul demands Blitzball. Overall thought, just something new would be nice and not another Leap Of Faith reskin.
- Cosmic Exploration. While the China Fanfest gave us a few small things about it, I mainly just want them to come out and confirm if it's going to be like Diadem / Firmament 2.0, or if it's going to be a swerve and we're actually getting Island Sanctuary 2.0 but this time with 200 people screaming at once about Laver being needed for way too many things.
- Beastmaster info. They don't need to go into a ton with it to keep it secret until closer to 7.2, but maybe give us an official artwork of what Beastmaster's gear will look like. Plus lets face it if they go "Beastmaster's weapon is a whip", that'll get some players' attention, if for different reasons.

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- Yoshida said in an interview (with Preach Gaming I believe) that they would not do Blitzball. But there is a Gold Saucer thing coming, so it's probably a good bet. Just not Blitzball.
- They said that Cosmic Exploration is multiplayer like Ishgard Restoration
- Probably not Beastmaster info until at least next year :/ It's supposed to come in the later patches. Might have an earlier Blue Mage update though.

What I wish for:

-Statement about the state of the MSQ and a response to the feedback about DT, as well as the English VA situation
-Update to Frontlines PvP (yeah, as if :'D)
-First look at new Alliance Raid
-Maybe some pictures of the Cosmic Exploration OR maybe even the new Deep Dungeon
-Of course...new Glamour
-Fixing the Graphical Update problems/Mount tilting issues
-New Hildy Quests
-New Hair for Viera/Hrothgar

Though I'm sure not everything on this wishlist is realistic, but a girl can dream. :o

SMN rework. Replace the unnecessary Bahamut reskin with an actually different summon. lol yeah right, coping hard XD.

If I see wuk lamat in next trailer I would lose my mind

my personal (and most likely very unrealistic) list of announcements I would love to see

- job improvements (like healer downtime skills, gauge positive/neutral reaper, return to 7.01 viper, fix for DRK mana economy.)
- unlocking Glamour restrictions for everything that is not AF gear
- improvement of netcode
- first steps of the new relic weapon
- a english speaking community manager team that monitors the english forum and social media, that translates feedback to the devs in Japan

Frontline updates, I guess.
The rest can be whatever.

When is the next letter due?

I would like as always Hilda's hairstyle along with a new long one. some nicer looking gear to be shown as this expac a lot has been not great and a lot of reskins.
I would also like a answer on the character change and what they are planning. Midlander females suffered really bad along with others.

Looking forward to the new FFXI raid but am a bit worried they make it bad >.< and also would love to see Beastmaster and pray it is a solid pet job but I guess I am dreaming lol

This'll probably never happen, but I'd like to see an announcement of unlocked Jobs for alts. By this I mean, let's say you've unlocked/maxed out MCH. When making an alt, instead of having to level up, say, Paladin to 50 to re-get it, MCH is already there for the alt to use at level one. It's a dream, but one I'm hopeful for.

I'd like to see updates to glamour plates (more added), fixes to DRK, and maybe some hints on Beast Master.

I don't think anyone deserves an apology with the way the forums have been acting in recent weeks.

Probably won't happen anytime soon, but I wish they'd share more or less what they want for 8.0 job design in advance.

Especially the poor state of healers and the phys ranged niche. At least with the fomer you need to have them... the latter, is questionable whether or not the 1% damage + some mitigation is worth double caster with PCT and BLM. Thankfully this raid's damage check is pretty light, or else we could honestly see phys ranged being benched, because even a RDM gets to be more useful with the rez.

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Originally Posted by OshKorosh

I don't think anyone deserves an apology with the way the forums have been acting in recent weeks.

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So how do you like your boots? With Ketchup? Maybe cheese?

Get out of here with that. When you make astronomically stupid decisions, you get equal backlash.

Besides acknowledging the fact that they hear the feedbacks about the story, I want them to acknowledge how screwed up the job balancing specially for the tanks. They left DRK in the dust now its almost dead.

I want them to address DRK (Copium I know)

I want them to address the graphics update on why they had several pieces of gear in the MSQ for DT that were not updated. Koana included.

Also the status of races and headgear and hairstyles.

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Originally Posted by Isala

So how do you like your boots? With Ketchup? Maybe cheese?

Get out of here with that. When you make astronomically stupid decisions, you get equal backlash.

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And that answer is precisely why nobody on the forum is owed an apolegy from SE.
You got to give respect to recieve it.
It is possible to disagree or voice criticism in a respectfull civilized manner.

Sorry for any typo´s.

My biggest hope is information on Shades Triangle. Also Cosmic Exploration, in particular what the msq reqs for it will be.

Additionally I would like a bozja challenge log, and I'm deeply curious where MSQ is going. Alexandria has been far better written and more thematically cohesive than Eulmore, and the Yak T'el meteors are a cool plot hook to bring in the space stuff.

Other things I want: roadmap on gear upgrades and information on what old gear will be getting two dye channels, and if we're talking pipe dreams, news about making old pvp season rewards obtainable ....

brick wall of gameplay talk.