Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIV!(Lead Designer Takeo Suzuki)

This ones more of a request then a question,but will you implant more long hair styles for males,I feel there aren't many. I'm particularly talking about male hyurs,I'd love to have cool long hair :D

Mr Takeo Suzuki,are you currently working on other titles besides Final Fantasy XIV?

if i may ask have you ever come up with ideas for armours based on the primals.

what was your main inspiration on working on this game?

For male Mi'qote can we look forward to beards in the style of whiskers perhaps

The tail physics on Miqo'te while riding on many mounts seen very un-energetic and still. I feel like they should be flowing in the wind as you ride. Was this a design choice or is it something we could see fixed in the future?

Can we get short or knee length skirts without socks?

By charging more money per month for more storage I feel like I am being punished for attempting to level and utilize all of the various classes.

Are there any plans to expand item storage without charging me more to play the game than others?

A tacklebox for fishing bait would alleviate some of the issues many of us are having. Having extra retainers be a reward for 6-month subscriptions would be even better.

As it stands I have hired a retainer for one month to help me sort my catalog of items, but at the cost of deleting extra characters and lowering my subscription service to the most basic.

Can females get at least ones nice dress pants instead of sockskirts?

Ever considered hosting Art / Costume Design Contests? I'll explain.

Other MMORPGs like SEGA's Phantasy Star Online 2 & Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity (ファンタシースターオンライン2 & ファンタシースターポータブル2インフィニティ) occasionally hosted Fan Art Design Contests in which Fans could freely create concept designs of Weapons and Outfits that would be entered into a contest and accepted by SEGA to be realized as actual in-game equipment for players (The drawback, of course, was the weapons were underpowered and mainly for Glamour / Vanity purposes, like the FF13 gear we got).

With all these FFXIV contests, why not do something like this to encourage fans? Besides, it would give the Fanbase some Fan-made Equipment for Glamour Purposes. Something to think about. ;)

Pic is an example of a design that a Japanese fan submitted to SEGA which was later accepted and patched into a game:

http://bumped.org/psublog/wp-content...mmatonFalz.jpg

Sylphie, Alphinaud & Kan-E-Senna are all very cute! i would love to be able to make a character like them someday, will we ever see a child-like race implemented players?~

( lalafell are too baby-like for my taste! )

Can you please show us the wedding clothes!

Can we get more graphical setting options like completely turning off shadow.. during certain weather condition in game, it creates too many massive flickering square box shadows on the ground when choosing the lowest setting, thanks.

Several Questions:

1. Why are strict limitations to modify body features of our characters? Ex. Waist down we cannot really make much modification for leg size, foot size, hip size, butt size etc. I think many players would like to be able to make such modifications which would enhance the immersion level and character satisfaction for many players. ?

2. Why do a lot of the new Soldiery tome armors and also High Allagan armors look like the same thing with different colors? Same issue happened with armor from BCoB1. Raiders spend a lot of time working to beat these fights, then dedicate time weekly to get treasures from them. After all this effort, it would be nice to look different from other classes rather than very generic. Are there any plans to change this?

3. What was the inspiration for the futuristic look to all of the Allagan / Coil zones?

just 1 question how are ppl supposed to farm atma and continue with this long drawn out weapon quest in 2.8 with primal server issues on a regular basis?

I would like to see more gear sets for specific jobs, not all these overlapping gear sets. It would be nice if Paladin and Warrior for example could get different gear sets maybe with stats and abilities tailored for those jobs instead of a more generic tank gear like we have now. Same with casters and healers. Any plans on expanding the gear options to give each class more unique equipment?

My question pertains to the glamour system, specifically for the Disciples of Magic, it if there will ever cross class glamour between magic users, as we have a limited selection of gear? Specifically my question is such:

Will the restriction on glamouring the Chasmere robes(dyable battlemage and acolyte varients) be lifted to allow all DoM to glamour them? I find in strange all can wear the base item but only healers can use the dyable acolyte and only dps can use the dyable battlemage.

Have the Development/Design team discussed about the probability of introducing Primal armors in the future?

Miqo'te gear clips a lot with tails because the models aren't made for specifical race, for me this looks more a excuse to not create specific gear for each model, is like if just use the same model for males and females.
Can at least consider in future to add a hole for the tails, and add a ornament for the other races to not show it, because now just looks like not care at all how miqo'tes look.

http://oi59.tinypic.com/30l153o.jpg

Could you please, please please please introduce more themed armour? Even if it isn't for a long long time can you not start working on it? The ideas of wearing shiva or siren armour is just perfect, oh and can you please try and change up the design for each class/role? :D

Looking to the future, will armor in Final Fantasy XIV feature capes or cloaks? This is a feature that is greatly desired by the game's community.



(Please! Upvote this so it gets asked)

What is the likelihood of the retainer's basic outfit being made into a costume for players?

Are there any plans to add more AoE enmity abilities to Paladin? At present it's far more difficult to hold hate on multiple mobs with Paladin compared to Warrior. Warrior has Overpower, Steel Cyclone and access to Flash. All Paladin has is Flash...

First of all thank you!
I just wanted to say I love that your adding more hairstyles in to the game, the more the better, This is really specific but I'd love the original design for Squall's hair,
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2..._Early_Art.jpg

Thanks

Can we get a more vibrant red for hair? Like fire engine red? And longer hair styles for all races/genders please!

Looking at the White Mage's AF robe, it appears to be a dress with a small cloak/hood over it. Would you consider creating separate versions of the two to equip? I'd love to pair the signature WHM hood with the new Spring Skirt for a cuter WHM look!

http://i60.tinypic.com/15x974n.jpg

Hi, do you guys plan to add lightnings/Snows hair style and outfit gear accessible to all eventually as I have been asked a lot of times about her gear and hair style and I know it is something a lot of players who missed out on the events can get them or even re-adding the event as a permanent feature or even adding it in as a veteran reward??

The materia system as it is now makes NO sense at all.. we cannot macro real time skill speed... so its broken there.. we also cannot boost main stats.. WHICH IS THE WHOLE POINT OF MATERIA.. you also cannot link materia to end game raid equip... which makes the system seem very very dull and pointless. I keep hearing game balance this.. and game balance that.. but honestly.. it wont effect the game balance AT ALL.. everyone would have the option to be equipped how they see fit. If it makes game content easier.. THATS WHAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO DO. Right now the gear is just blah... the ability to make real time macros and meld ALL gear would be greatly appreciated.. maybe expand materia give traits as well as stats or something.. like counter attack or mug.. for example.

As a player of final fantasy from the original nes version... I love rpgs.. and mmorpg was just an instant love for me... but with that being the case... I and ALOT of other people who play this have most if not all jobs to 50.. weekly lock outs do not make sense anymore.. I need an open way to gear all of my jobs.. if it is just the ilv100 pieces .. fine.. but having all of them 20 levels below cap because of the lock out is just frustrating.. I can only gear one job even though the whole model was made to play all of them on one character? I know it will make content outdated and no one will do it.. but you can implement all of it into daily roulette and the newer people will have an even BETTER chance at gearing to new levels and keeping up with content..

In 1.0 some of the endgame armour completely covered the tail on Miqo'te.
The same armour set carried over does not feature this, nor does any other armour set in the game.

My tail is exposed and is vulnerable! Will we ever have tail-covering plate armour back in the game, much like the (currently broken) Evenstar outfit?

In some of the cutscenes our characters use what appear to be recurring emotes and facial expressions unavailable to us. What most prominently comes to mind is a /shocked looking emote that isn't something I can do myself. Will we be getting this, and other emotes any time soon?

Are we going to be able to see the "still" mouse turning animation to be more animated? Why that movement has to be so un-immersive against the overall well-polish of the whole game? This was something addressed since Beta P3 along with inertia animations, and it is not something impossible to realize, since other players "from the outside" see your PC having a standard, motioned (like the keyboard one), turning animation.

In some early designs and "Letters from the Producer", the Aesthetician was supposed to be able to change the eye color as well if I recall correctly; why was that option removed in the final release of the feature?

Besides the possible new hair styles in the next Patch, are you scheming on adding a feature for the the players to make their own "unique" hair style somewhere done the road?

Have you considered having dungeon themed gear as opposed to a single iLvL tier that drops from the Extreme/Hard/Low Level dungeons?

For example a jungle themed set that drops in Brayflox, Gladiator themed set in Halatali, or a an ancient set covered in spores from Lost City of the Ancients.

I feel like this would bring so much beautiful glamour and also allow for different attribute builds for each jobs!

When glamouring crafted items together with non-crafted items, many times the blacks are not the same and look off-putting. Will we get a black dye that will match the blacks of non-crafted gear items?

Dear Takeo Suzuki,

Thank you for the great job you and your team are doing it's really wonderful.
I have an idea/suggestion, someone said in this thread something about job specific gear I like that idea. As a Paladin I feel there isn't enough 'Knight' type sets and we can easily look like a Warrior I wanna feel more unique what do think of these designs to spark up your creativity maybe armour based of the 12 star signs? Or animals maybe? Would also love Ragnarok and Exaclibur to make a return. Thank You

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http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...hiteknight.png


These are some obviously it's copyrighted but something crazy like this the Paladin community would welcome I feel final fantasy has enough swords to accompany new armour sets

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Are there any plans to move forward with more outfits geared towards pure glamours?
http://forum.neko-sentai.com/attachm...4&d=1287365091
For example, a mod was made back in 1.0 for something along the lines of a maid outfit and I was curious if anything was being worked at towards this

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I would like to BEG that new equipment not be highly skewed toward making female characters more attractive, and balance it with some more glamour pieces that suit male characters well. My feeling is that equipment is designed for female miqo'te first and then modified a bit for male characters.

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

Also, any chance of summons getting their own Action icons?

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Would individual action icons be considered for implementation?

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Originally Posted by Cieperaux

Are there any plans for overall longer hairstyles for all races, such as long ponytails or flowing hair? About the same length as Alphinaud and Alisaie's?

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If there are plans to add longer hairstyles (which I hope for), can hair/collar clipping be addressed before they are released?