Ask Your Questions for the Mini Letter from the Producer LIVE at TGS!

Would it be possible to get a controller keyboard on PC similar to the integrated PS3 keyboard? I don't find switching to the keyboard very convenient in the middle of a dungeon?

Could we get a fifth inventory page?

Would a Libra Eorzea app ever get a Vita or PS3 version?

Will we be able to change our skin color with the Barber Shop/Beauty Shop? It seems like a waste of a Fantasia if that's the only thing I'd like to change.

It would be like what you get when you go to a tanning booth or how alot of people get a tan irl during the summer.

I am not sure if this has been asked yet, but is there going to be any better ways to report spammers? Also can we look forward to easier ways to add those to the blacklist (through a right-click for instance).

Mr. Naoki Yoshida, thank you and your development team so much for putting your heart and soul into this fantastic mmorpg and Final Fantasy title.

Here are my questions I wish for you to consider answering for the Mini Letter at TGS:

- Do you have any plans to address the gold spamming players in-game?

- Will you consider adding a side by side comparison feature for equipment in-game? That way players can compare obtained equipment or rewarded equipment with their currently equipped gear with ease.

- Do you have any plans to add a transmutation feature for equipment to the game?

- Down the road, either with expansions or updates, are there any plans to add new Jobs to the game, such as Dark Knight or Ninja or Samurai?

- Are there any plans to increase the level Cap with future updates as well?

- Would you at all consider designing Empire-looking equipment?

- Are there going to be more Primal summons that summoners can look forward to obtaining down the road?

My question is about the patch release itself. It seems like in the past when ever there is a patch or planned maintenance it is usually schedule to happen during peak hours in North America.

When you release this patch on the NA Servers will you at least consider doing it during off peak hours?

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Originally Posted by Leonrey

A question for all the FFXI players playing Dragoon in FFXIV.

Why no wyvern?
Is there any chance we'll ever get one?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc

My question: will we be able to change our minions' names in 2.1?

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Originally Posted by Jamescpal

I am not sure if this has been asked yet, but is there going to be any better ways to report spammers? Also can we look forward to easier ways to add those to the blacklist (through a right-click for instance).

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This was partially address during the last maintenance. As far as reporting goes I'm know it suck to type out the users name and send it up through support but they have already block thousands of users for spamming about the gold markets. These are one of those things that will get better with time. in the mean time I found this on reddit:

Until SE adds a right-click report or blacklist, this is a quick macro that saves having to type out ridiculous spammer names like "Fsgtws Swgtr"
Macro: /blist add <r>
Accept the popup and the last person to /tell you will be blacklisted. :)

Please can we get a kick ability in the duty finder?

Are there plans to be able to link gear in chat box / to other players that can be clicked to view its tooltip?

Are we going to see a tooltip window for comparing current gear?

Will we be getting a window to see what gear looks like? (linked in with the linking gear)

When can we expect the first wave of class/job balance adjustments and what kinds of changes can we expect to see?

Maybe this is already a feature and I just haven't found it yet.

Will you be adding inventory "quick" sorting?

Because MINE is a mess :(

Will PvP expand beyond the Wolves Den?

For example, in future expansions, will there be certain areas on a map in which players can freely attack other players? If this is not planned, can you please implement it!?

Are there plans to implement friendly duels? If not, can you please implement it!?

For example, my FC has gotten together at Costa Del Sol for a group picture. While we are waiting for other FC members to arrive, I challenge an FC member to a duel. The winner is the first person to drop the other person's HP down to 1. Players cannot be killed by dueling.

Regarding Free Companies:

-Are you planning on allowing us to "sort" the lists by clicking on Name, Job/Class, Zone, etc? (I.E. ABC order for names)
-Are you planning on allowing us to switch Grand Companies and be able to hit "Allied" with all 3 without losing previous reputation?
-Are you planning on allowing more than one "Action" to be executed at a time?
-Are more actions and higher ranks going to be available soon?
-Are there going to be more options to spend FC points on rather than just "Action"s?

Regarding Company Chest:

-Are there going to be more tab slots added? Possibly purchasable with FC points?
-Is there going to be an option added to change the tab names?
-Is the new auto-sort feature that is coming up going to work on the company chest as well?
-Are you planning on adding an option to where people can deposit but not withdraw items/gil?

Will we ever be able to turn off Battle Music, Chocobo and other Mount Music, the annoying Quest Accepted/Quest Complete Music clip, and FATE Music?

I LOVE the music of all the different areas, but never get to hear it unless I dismount and just stand in the zone with out fighting anything or talking to quest NPCs.

It was stated firmly that crafters (DoH) and gatherers (DOL) are to be considered classes in their own right, yet where are the FATEs or dungeons offering them a chance to shine?

Fighting classes get a item and reward for leveling capping all of them but these classes do not? (A life of adventure, Paragon's Crown)

Regarding FATEs:

-Any plans on making weather specific FATEs?
-Should we expect more FATEs with rare and powerful enemies? (I.E. Behemoth, Odin)
-Any plans on making Behemoth/Odin instanced in some manner, as to cut down on the lag during these FATEs?
-Any plans on changing the EXP awarded and/or spawn rate of FATEs?
-Any plans on upping hte difficulty and/or HP of the monsters in FATEs?
-Any plans on capping the amount of FATEs that can be done per day?

Regarding dungeons:

-Can we expect to have Tomes more spread out as to not limit the dungeon farming to specific dungeons only?
-Are "Hard Modes" of all the dungeons still on the way?
-Are more items planned on being added that can be bought with tomes for people who cap their gear and have a limited amount of items otherwise to spend them on? (I.E. more crafting mats, crafter gear, etc.)
-Are more dungeons on the way?

Will we get to see more endgame variety (as in things other than dungeons all the time)? Some examples: a tower climb event where you clear floors (maybe crystal tower might be this way?), an open world endgame area with different tasks and monsters to hunt (different system than fates).

Are we ever going to see more interesting (and preferably rare / hard to obtain) items return? In other words, are we going to see special stats return?

Do you still plan to increase the level cap shortly as was stated previously (I believe it was said you were wanting to have it happen within the first year)? If so, you also mentioned this would be a good time to add a new class or job, is this still the plan? If not will we see any new jobs added before a level cap increase comes our way?

After the initial "new game rush" wears off, are you going to remove the auto-logout feature?

Can you provide us with any information on Gilgamesh in reference to him being a part of the game?

Will there ever be a clothing system like that of DC Universe Online, in which you can freely choose the appareance of each dress (from a list of previously owned at least once)?

Are you considering balancing Summoner job for endgame content? Because it was not tested by so many players it seems Summoner is the weakest for endgame content.

Will you make it so that crafting materials stored on our retainers are available for use (automatically) during crafting?

What I mean by this is: I have 99 iron ore on one of my retainers and 0 iron ore in my inventory. I want to make an iron ingot for a crafting leve. I am at Hawthorn Hut. I want to be able to craft that iron ore, at hawthorn hut, without going back to the city to get the materials off my retainer. When I open up the crafting window, I want it to recognize that I have 99 iron ore -- even though it is not in my personal inventory. When I click synthesize, I want it to remove the iron ore from my retainer and consume it to make an iron ingot; and I want that iron ingot to go to my personal inventory when it is finished.

As a French player, I really enjoy the content since beta 3.
The game was really agreeable to play especially dungeons during beta 3.
I really loved the Brayflox longstop.
Now, because of network lag, the game has become a nightmare to play,
not because of the content or difficulty of the dungeons,
but because the client-server updates have several seconds of freeze every ten seconds.
I mean : the picture and the local animations keep being fluid, the mobs and playable characters HP,MP,position freeze for 2 to 15 seconds every 10 seconds.

- Can you please contact the 3 main ISP in France and check with them peering and routing so that network throughput to your datacenter is ok ?
- Can you stop calling the american datacenter "European" since it is located almost 6000 km away from Europe. Just call these servers American servers.
- Do you have plan to place some servers in Europe ?

The voice overs feels very limited. Will you implement v/o for at least all cutscenes?

I am a really big fan of nostalgia and seeing nods to the earlier Final Fantasy games. Can you give us any sneak peaks on some of these that might be implemented? For instance:

- Minions (Moombas? Wyverns? Oglops?)
- Mounts
- Locations (Opera House? Doom Train?)
- Not as common Summons/Primals (Valefor, Tritoch, Magus Sisters, etc..)
- More job specific armor based on previous franchise characters (Freya DRG armor, Yuna SMN armor, Cloud GLD armor, etc...)
- Music from previous games (updated/remixed of course)

Thanks, love the game! :D

will there be music based off each weather effect?

Will special jobs ever be addressed in game? Meaning, if not for the forums I would not have know that I could pick up Dragoon by going and getting 15 in Marauder. Seems like there should be something that tells you your options when you hit a specific level.

Greatly appreciate you guys hard work. But my question is, where is the end game hard content? Can we have open world content back?

I didn't speed throught the game, i am like others who come from 1.0 and even others who have 50 job, 50 gather, 50 craft, and i regretfully feeling like there is not much endgame content, I've done all the endgame content, finished a relic, working on others, and the only content mainly for endgame would be bahamuts coil, which we are planning on besting in the coming weeks. I really find it hard that Bahamut's coil is the only real endgame content ; ;, and I've did fate, fate is only for leveling.

are there other jobs coming to the game, when? would that be free content or DLC!?

what does the planned warrior of light armor look like?

When are unique abilities/stats going to be added to AF/AF+1/Relic Weapons?

Bard limit break is a heal not a aoe damage could you explain why it is a heal instead of a damage

Will there be alternate methods to acquire Darklight or AF2? (Valor, Wyrm, Argute, etc.)

Can we get a legacy controller UI? I mentioned this alongside some others way back in phase 2 or early phase 3 and it went overlooked.

the way it was in 1.0 or in XI were both really good, and the current crossbar seems lacking and restrictive.

Hello guys, I have this question from I started playing, will be HNM like fafnir on open spot like ffxi? You guys changed it from ffxi and not everyone hate this system because you can prove skills camping and fighting with this kind of monsters, now rate monsters need be it, rare.


Thanks for this opportunity to ask

Hello again, will every job get a special ability, not just limit break?

Thanks!

I love what you've done with FFXIV, Yoshi. It's much better compared to when the game was first released. Now my question has to do with future content. Considering the number of jobs and classes in the game and the Rumors that you'll be adding Ninja as a Job in the Next patch or so, can we expect some more Jobs besides that in the future? Perhaps Red Mage (Gladiator/Thaumaturgist), Thief (Pugilist/Archer), or even a gunner class?

Zell's T-board from FFVIII Can I have it? I'd like to ride around on it instead of a chocobo.

Will Dragoon get a dragon/wyvern class/job mount?
What will Warriors mount be?

Can you tell me anything about Crafting Parties and the benefits of having crafting furniture in our FC houses?
Will there be crafting equivalent gear vs the dungeon gear?

Can you give the Ifrit pet legs? I think he's an awesome staple of final fantasy but why no legs?

I'd really like to see flail's, Nun-chucks, blitz balls, Tonfa's, Double bladed swords like in FFIX any plans to implement new weapons soon?

Golden Saucer mini games, Can we have Blitz ball? :)

Will you ever add a shepard gathering class for wools/leathers/skins?

Free company buffs, can we have more than 1 buff at a time?

Can I have a gunblade please?!!? :D

Are there any plans to add an outfit system to the game? I mean, a system that enables a "just for appearance" layer on top of your equipped gear so you could, as an example, look like you're using your AF set while equipped with Allagan gear. Is that in the plans?