Ask Your Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part V!

Will there be a Collectors Edition available to purchase for FFXIV ARR?

Could we get information on the Need, Greed, and Pass system being implemented for ARR. Will it be available for testing during any of the Betas?

Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity! :)

Edit: I am specifically interested in the limitations of Need rolling. As Matsume has pointed out this seems to be tied with the token system also. Could we have a nice big detailed explanation.....Pretty Please?

2nd Edit: Bayohnes dev post from Oct

What does yoshi-p think about treasure chests in final fantasy ? I always liked exploring the world's of classic final fantasy to find all the treasure chests hidden in the world. In online final fantasy most treasure chest just appear from monsters or in instance raids.

I want to explore the world to find the treasure chests like classic final fantasy.

Could you tell us more about the new pet system? I mean the baby behemoth, bomb, etc.

Will NPC's have dialogue? Not just blurps you read, but real voice acting? And not just a few key characters, but all of them? I just detracts from the game to not hear voices. They could all speak Japanese and I would be happy!

Could you tell us more about the train system? Are they connected to all major city or any new city in the future?

Will male Highlanders have the option to have eyebrows?

could you tell us about how you think to implement PVP contents? FFXI was really poor of it

Arcanist was revealed the better part of a year ago. Can we see some in game footage of arcanist/summoner? Alot of us are waiting patiently for our pet job, but we still know next to nothing about it. Iirc yoshi said something about showig the auto attack in the next live letter, so im really hoping he keeps his word. Bottom line : can we get some in game footage and a concept of how arcanist/summoner will play? Please its been the better part of a year with nothing but concept art

If possible would you show footage of you controlling your character with mouse and keyboard using FFXIV ver1.0 control scheme. It was said that this option would be added for us M+K users instead of the 'global mmo' strafing style.

How do you respond to criticism from those that believe the PS3 hardware is holding back the developers from adding features such as additional hairstyles.

After 10 years FFXI has finally dropped support for PS2 and now is able to perform critical overhauls to systems such as the UI. Which were previously impossible due to 'PS2 limitations'

What assurance can you give that FFXIV will not suffer the same fate ?

I would like to know more about housing. I know way back when, In Ultima Online when you bought a house you were able to give certain people "Permissions". Like for example if you were in the same guild, you could set up chests that only a few people would have access to. And then another for like community. I was curious if it was going to be similar.

will Warrior job have major change in term of Skills and play style? and would like to have information on Monk and how the job will change.

With PVP content. Will you be separating the pvp skills from the pve skills?

ie: lancer has true thrust. True thrust does 192(X variable number) damage to monster targets and 192(Y variable number) damage to player targets. This allows tweaking to happen to the skills on 2 sides, meaning pvp and pve can be balanced separately and players don't have to feel punished if they pvp and are hit with a pve nerf, or vice versa.
As a result if players are doing ok against monsters, but they feel they are doing too much against players. You can reduce the Y variable number only and leave X where it is.

With regards to the Gold Saucer(or however you wish to name it) area. Will fan favorite mini games be making a return? Possibly with little twists? I know that, I for one, really loved the submarine mini game along with the bike racing mini game, many others enjoyed the snowboarding game. While motorbikes may not be as prevalent in FFXIV (Although they might become so if ARR dictates it) Why not revisit the bike mini game while riding a chocobo? Would a magitek submarine work for a sub game?

Role of deities in storyline… Will there be content geared towards the deities? i.e. Deity specific quests, gear blessed by specific "gods", etc…

The Red Mage is one of the most classic and iconic jobs of the Final Fantasy saga. Is there any chance to see it implemented in A Realm Reborn in the near future?

Are there any plans yet for when Musketeer will make it into the game? Will the Musketeer guild still be in the new Limsa if it's implementation has been indefinitely delayed?

Will there be a fishable pond in either private and/or free company housing?

There has been mention of levelling up retainers. How will this be done and what will be the costs and benefits of doing it?

Will there be crafting and gathering quests that somehow improve the local services and facilities of an area? Such as stocking a store or repairing an Aetherite?

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Originally Posted by Kluya15

Will there be a Collectors Edition available to purchase for FFXIV ARR?

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And will there be any special way for old CE holders to get it (e.g. discount on the full physical copy/only the digital part of collection available for download)?

Will there be more of an emphasis of content on the way to cap rather than the current "race to cap" mentality? I'm concerned that the vast majority of content will be condensed to the last 5 levels as opposed to over all 50 levels.

How will Notorious Monsters be handled in A Realm Reborn? Roaming NMs will be removed in favor of F.A.T.E. ?

I'm curious about snow or rain weather effect.
Will the snow covered trees and waterfall around Black Shroud area have a visual frozen display or just have another snow effect like in previous version?

Can you please give us some information on how fishing will work in ARR?

Will ARR be playable on the PS4?
This will have a great impact on player-base if the PS4 is released in the next year, due to people trading in their PS3s to buy a new console.

Will the issue of "gear used in lower levels often being skipped over until cap necessitates upgrades" be addressed? Such as an exponential increase in enemy strength requiring players to keep their gear up to date? Otherwise, most lower level gear will never be used because it won't be worth it, levelling past that level range too quickly and unable to sell the gear on to put the funds towards what is needed for the next upgrade.

Can you tell us the exact number of the new size of Linkshells and how a community larger than 100 should go about setting up a Free Company?

do you have any plans on how to correct the economic instability created by the carry over? and are any servers which will be 100% fresh starts with no carry over allowed for new players to feel confident starting on?

Will the maps be recognizable from what they were in 1.0, or can we expect everything will look different? How much bigger is the world of 2.0 compared to 1.0?

We are only 7 pages in and i'm already starting to see duplicate questions being asked , such as Weather Effects, Notorious Monsters and FATE, Housing, PVP, Arcanist and Summoner Job etc.

It's not very hard to read 7 pages of single question posts and click the "like buttons" on those questions that you are thinking of asking instead of hitting "post quick reply". Follow the rules outlined in the OP for the love of the twelve, it's meant to make it easier on the people who will be sifting through these questions to answer them in the next live letter.

Can you tell us a rough estimate of how much housing will cost, both private and for free companies? You said a level 50 would have to put a lot of their money towards it but most of the people playing previously probably have at least 1 capped class and their playing style (and thus their resources) vary wildly from player to player. An actual rough gil estimate would be great!

I asked same question last time but...will we get our one time name change option?

Will it be possible to re-devote ourselves to a different deity in game (aside from the one time recreation which may or may not include this)? Even if it requires a quest or something, not everyone likes being forever locked into their early decision, especially with such little known about the Twelve so far.

How mutch new regions will it come if it will come? Like Mor dhona, La Nocea, Black Shround :) Will there come new citys?

(Sry for my bad English)

Will the market wards of the different cities ever be combined into one interlinked facility combined over all of the worlds? One economy over the entire game that will ensure constant supply and demand at all times of day and night on all worlds?

Is there anything being purposely postponed until later release of expansion packs?

Will guardian/nameday have any effect on our character or is it just for RP ? If there is an effect will the information be available on character creation so we can choose the effect we want ?

Are you going to put for sell the Survivor T-shirt you used in last live letter?