Questions to Global Community Producer Toshio Murouchi

Loving events but any plans to make them longer or more involved? Feels like they pass in a couple of minutes.

Also, any way to up the current rate of glam rewards from events or in general (true end game)? Would love some proper heels, more flowy robes/gowns (translucent), thongs, dyeable bra and contacts.

Thanks!

Do you feel there is any way to ever eliminate the threat of DDOSing or is the current means in which information is sent to the servers make it impossible to ever preemptively anticipate a DDOS attack?

Community Support (Live events, broadcast, official forums, promotions):
Are there any plans to increase interaction on these forums? Right now most of the the replies go to the Japanese language section. The players of other boards really feel ignored. The latest example being the place players call "Diadem 3.0" (Eureka ) where we only got a reply on fireworks, when the biggest concern was having a level sync.

We are confused why it was up to the players to link stuff like Yoshi-p's walk and not the official forum community team to share and discuss it with us.

What is the progress of the male bunny outfit? (If any)

Looking Forward - Beast Tribes

It has been stated that we'll be getting a crafting beat tribe in Patch 4.3. Some of us were surprised that the crafting tribe wasn't the Ananta. What can you tell us about Stormblood's tribe that we'll be helping out in 4.3, such as if they will be the Namazu, Lupins, or Qiqirn, or if it will be a brand new tribe we haven't met yet until now?

Also Looking Forward - In Regards to Eureka

Since the first area was Anemos, meaning wind, and that the island puts so much emphasis on the elements, will the next area be Gi (Earth), Fotia (Fire), or Nero (Water)? What more can we expect that you might be willing to tell us about future areas of Eureka?

Stalking and Harassment
Is there any extra measures taken to prevent stalking and harassment? Like preventing blacklisted people to check your location in Player Search / Friend list? Stalking is hard to prove and often GM's are powerless to do anything with their current tools.

The official forums have a bad reputation on banning people too easily for saying different opinions or expressing themselves slightly more vocally. I don't speak about harassment or swearing. People outside of the official forums think than you ban anyone you don't like. Also users of the official forums feel like 3rd world citizens in comparison with the JP forums. Our feedback most of the times does not make it to the JP dev team. The official NA/EU responses from GMs are also very very scarce and limited.
Can you tell us anything about how you will improve the official forums on these aspects?

Glamour System/Glamour Plates - Applying Gear from another Job

The Glamour Plate system looks to be going well so far and I cannot wait for the continued improvement of accessibility of this game system. However, I'm still unsatisfied with some looks that certain classes have. The RDM Artifact gear looks perfect for the job and I appreciate it. But there is equipment available for BRD/MCH and MNK/SAM that would look great with my RDM. Yet, since it's a Casting class, it doesn't exactly look right for BLM or SMN, and I can understand that line of thinking.

It's why I think cross-class glamour accessibility would be a great option to open up with the Glamour Plate system. To be able to use my glamour that has the head, body and feet pieces of the Kudzu Set of Aiming (Level 64) on my RDM would be fantastic.

The look fits so perfectly when I "Try On" a RDM weapon in the Outfit Preview window, I'm sad that it won't ever happen (at least in the foreseeable future).

There are so many fantastic looks in this game, it's a shame it's all locked away behind Job/Class restrictions. Please reconsider altering these limitations in the future.

EDIT: Ack, didn't notice this was questions to the Global Community Producer... I'll still leave the question up, just not expecting it to get answered. xD

Would you consider this possibility for Paladin:
In Sword Oath make us dual wield swords.
In Shield Oath make us use a sword and a shield. That would make more sense in the loss of defense but boost in dps for the stance.

Crackdown of Duplicate Threads

While I understand its important for players to voice their opinions on the official FFXIV forums for accurate feedback, the latest content update (Eureka) has shown that some people will not check the forum pages for threads already pertaining to the subject they want to talk/ask about. Would it be possible for more merging/redirection of threads so that we don't have 7-8 threads going on a subject at the same time? I feel this would help consolidate the feedback as well.

So currently for FC’s that if they want to do stuff with their members, they need to go either onto the Lodestone or another third party FC website or even Discord to schedule the event. Is there a way to implement a calendar in-game where FC members can see what is coming up for FC events (and maybe have a signup sheet for those events for FC leader and other people to look at) and as well for other in-game events like Hatching Tide, Starlight Celebration, etc?

Can you make all of mogstation paid gears dyeable like Lyse outfit? Can you do the same for Garlean Othard gear too?

Are you planning to add more wards for 4.3?

If not, can you allow player to have alts share the access of the house? Or increase the tenants and have them refresh the demolish time?

With the introduction to Byakko and Byakko Extreme, it left a lot of people disappointed due to the difficulty being easy. Is there a chance in the future for a third difficulty for Trials, with perhaps not different rewards but coffers or mount drops for clearing?

The changes to Warrior made a lot of improvements for newer players but overall it seems to have become easier along with the other tanks. Will some changes in the future help solidify a stronger skill ceiling for those more experienced?

With the current set up with Warrior, a lot of other classes don't sync well with them due to their cooldowns and or effects, like Battle Litany or Chain Stratagem only increasing the critical hit rate which does nothing for Warrior's within Inner Release. Will there be a change to help them pair up with other classes more?

Are there any updates on when we might receive mannequins or weapon racks for us to put into our home? Will we be able to put a Glamour Dresser within our home anytime soon?

The changes to Paladin's block really seemed to outshine on Dark Knight's magical resistance, with moves like Sheltron beating out Dark Mind in a lot of situations. It seems unfair only one class can get block and have it superior to Parry. Will there be a change to that stat to work against magical? Playing Legend of Zelda has taught many players that you can parry magic.

RMTers and other types of bots seem to be a major issue within the game, for instance joining a match of PvP will finding you teams of bots destroying players which makes it an overall unpleasurable experience. It is also a lot harder to report members within PvP. Will there be any way to help prevent this issue from occurring?

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Originally Posted by Fazraye

Task Details

• Community Support (Live events, broadcast, official forums, promotions)
• Customer Support (GM, Information Center)
• Illicit Measures (STF, RMT handling)
• Network Observation (NOC)

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Please provide an official statement to the use of ACT / FFLogs. This activity seems to directly violate 2.5 Data mining of the ToS unless Square Enix officially sanctions it.

The addition of Eureka has a lot of positive feedback from the FFXI community. With that in mind would it be possible to add a piece of content similar to the FFXI content "Salvage". Where a team of players would start with no gear and have to defeat monsters to get items to unlock gear slots. But players would have to have a strategy on who got each unlock item to best progress through the fight. I believe this would be an interesting concept in FFXIV as it was in FFXI and would suffice as an end game low man piece of content.

Can we get a setting option that would work like the "Display only detrimental effects you inflict" option but for the Focus Target instead?

As a raider I've come to realize that there is a significant difference in how fast or slow things happen during a raid. What I mean by this, is over the course of a fight a boss such as Living Liquid would slowly start to do things faster than a different instance and by the end of the fight he might be stuck in a mechanic that allows for extra time for a team to complete the fight. This allows an unfair advantage that teams have no control over. If X team gets 20 more seconds before the enrage goes off that's a huge advantage during prog compared to the team that has less time to do it just because they got a "fast instance". Has this been addressed at all by the dev team and if so, is there any plans to fix it?

1: When will FF14 become horizontal progression?
2: When will you make ff14 a true open world mmo we don't have PS3 limitation anymore?

Can we please have the 1000 character limit on forum posts removed? Please spend a minute having someone go into the board settings and adjust this issue the official forums have had for years.

There seems to be an extreme difference between the policy stated in the official user agreement and the policy that's actually enforced. This is perhaps most obvious with this particular piece:

3.5 Naming Right. You may not use any name or other intellectual property belonging to Square Enix or any other third party in your use of the Game (for example, naming a character after a celebrity, company, product, or superhero).

Thankfully, the most extremely offensive names do seem to be properly dealt with. That, however, seems to be the end of it. Since it's inappropriate to call out any specific player here, I won't give a specific example. But we can search for a notorious famous person from current news, for example, and find four pages of people with a character name that unmistakably refers to that one individual. And no one seems to care. So what's going on here? Which is wrong? Your user agreement or the actions of your GM team?

Would it be accurate to say that already-made improvements to your server architecture/code and/or the game client would allow you to feasibly make Limsa Lominsa (for example) one zone rather than two again? And/or make all of La Noscea (again, as one example) one zone again?

I love the combat in Final Fantasy XIV. However, it is still necessary to explain to newer players that there's still a very noticeable difference between when it looks like you've dodged an attack, succeeded in killing a monster, etc. and when the server seems to acknowledge that the event has actually happened. This means that we effectively have to dodge everything EARLY in order to actually succeed. And, for example, with a Eureka EXP chain, we can kill a monster with a couple seconds left on the timer but by the time the server actually acknowledges that the kill has been made, the chain is gone. This has been improved a couple times already. Any plans to again reduce the length of a server tick or whatever the actual tech involved is?

Will the misuse of the character transfer system to regularly dump large quantities of items onto other servers for profit be addressed?

RMT and regular players find servers where high-end crafts and other valuable items (e.g., Gyr Abanian Alchemics, raid food/potions, minions, mounts, orchestrion scrolls, etc) are cheap relative to others, load characters full of those items, transfer to another server where they sell significantly higher, and dump them, en masse, onto the marketboard.

This can significantly reduce the incentive for engaging in the activities that rewards these items, even to the point where it is no longer worthwhile to do them at all. For example, I've seen HQ endgame crafted items dumped into our server's markets at prices below the cost of materials. Then when looking at the signatures, find the names are of characters on other EN or JP servers.

will their ever be a selfie camera in the game.

Would you consider adding some sort of captcha to queues? I know that it may sound silly but would it curtail the rampant botting?

Glamour Plates (Shared Gear)

I was hoping for an update to the Glamour Plate System. Specifically the shared gear. Here’s my scenario:
- RDM/SMN
- Grabbed the Anemos gear for my RDM, dyed it and everything, but, I can’t place this into the Glamour Plates (because it’s permanent and likely to be updated via the new Relic system). So, I glamour right over my 360 gear.
- Now, I switch the SMN and the glamour breaks. I apply a SMN outfit from a plate to fix it.
- Switch back to RDM and it’s broken again :(
- I guess the solution is to make the glamour plate gear removable or (a “copy/replica” of my gear in the dresser)
- Or another solution.

Thanks :)

Recently, in order to participate with an FC event, I had retire my Grade 9 bird, so that I could actually compete with them. Prior to that we had tried Open races many many MANY times, and every time my bird...was winning against my FC mates just walking. The only way that I could race fairly against my FC mates, and FF14 friends was to penalize myself, and to loose a dang good bird. And this hasn't been the first time even that I have had to retire a Grade 9 for this reason!

The way it stands now, Chocobo Racing is pretty much a solitary sport. On the few rare occasions that I can get someone to join me, it becomes fun and full of laughter. However, because I enjoy that aspect...I am keeping a grade 5 bird. How is this fair to me?

When SB was announced, one of the GS venue games that you said you were going to be looking at further was going to be chocobo racing. Is anything going to change in Chocobo Racing? Or, are people who want to seriously race AND participate in FC events going to continue to be punished?

After leveling and maxing out WAR, PLD and DRK and playing all jobs in endgame content I can safely say that DRK is still way behind both WAR and PLD overall.

DRK deals less damage and has less utility compared to WAR and PLD. Aside from that one of it's mitigation cooldowns (i.e. Dark Mind) is restricted to magic damage only. Considering that a majority of the damage a tank receives during the entirety of the game is physical damage, DRK just doesn't feel like a tank compared to WAR and PLD.

Only in end game content Dark Mind starts to be more useful but I feel like a lot of players have already lost interest in playing DRK before even getting to that part of the game.

DRK just doesn't seem to have an identity anymore in the game as of now. Will you look into this job and give it the buff it deserves?

First of all I'd like to thank the entire team behind FFXIV for giving us this awesome MMO.
I've been playing since 1.0 and have seen the fall and rise of this game and even though I may not agree with all of the design decisions that have been made over the past few years I still think that this is currently the best MMO out there.

With that said, something I'd really love seeing in FFXIV is some sort of endless progression type content. It could be within Eureka or PotD type content, i.e. content that is excluded from your standard character progression.

I do commend the team for coming up with new type of content and trying to offer a diverse experience, yet it feels like some of the content becomes inactive after 1-2 months.

I think content with endless progression could offer a longterm incentive for players to do said content and I'd definitely love seeing something like that in this game.

Increase the amount of people to Blacklist from 200 to 20,000. Thank you.

My question is when will we have the unlock Hempen race set styles for all of the races in FF14? It was bought up in last March that it is coming in a future patch. Will it be something we can craft as a level 1 gear piece or something we can get from the GS, Special NPC that can sell them or something that will be in the Mog store? We all would love to know, Thank you. :3

Will there be any force pop nms (trade item to spawn it) in later forms of eureka?

Could some of the following be added to the in game free company page, 1) days since last promotion/demotion, 2) ability for officers to add/view notes (usefull to identify alternates) 3) some form of tracking contribution such as 1pt for being in party when adding ingredients or progressing projects