Questions to Global Community Producer Toshio Murouchi

1. Can we get another way to obtain PVP mounts and gear please? A lot of people wanted the Hellhound from Void Ark as a mount, but you could only get it from ranking in the top 100 on Feast a few days before the seasons end, which we learned from the Developer Blog post a few days before the end of the season, and at that point could no longer reach a high enough rank to earn it, especially since all those high ranked wouldn't queue for it anymore. Could we get these for (a high number of) achievement points, or maybe just a set number of wins in PVP? On EU datacenter, it is very hard to get into PVP modes at all, even Rival Wings is deserted by now. The top 100 had their bragging rights with the mounts for over a year now, ad for people that like to collect mounts it's sucks that they are unobtainable.
Also Field Commander Coat from Seal Rock, it is a really nice glamour but hardly obtainable.

2. Can we get more dyable versions of raid gear, and have you thought about making a community workshop, for people to submit gear or furniture design concepts? I think it could reduce your teams workload but add a lot of diversity to the game and as such get the community more engaged. For example, it could be handled like an ongoing design contest, maybe with a monthly theme for playes to submit designs for. At the end of a specified period of time, winners would be chosen(maybe the community could vote for their favorites, making those the winners or at least more likely to be considered.) Of course there should be guidelines, like designs having to fit with the feel of the game and not being offensive, but there are ways to enforce those. Games like Team Fortress 2 have profited hugely from having a workshop, and it would give people more ways to interacts with the game.

Since Eureka released, there has been a renewed call on the official forums for greater community outreach efforts. Does the development team have any plans to (a) seek additional feedback from the community, and (b) incorporate said feedback into the development process so as to be more responsive to the evolving preferences of the community?

Since we can only have 1 house per account per world, can you make it so our other characters on the same world can have a room in that house. Similar to how free company rooms and apartments work.

Would it be possible to have an account safe with 10 spaces, accessable only by characters on the same account and server.

any plan to let us change eye color at Aesthetician which was brought up before it came out? Did anything about this change or was it mistranslated?

any plans for the Carbuncle suit from the caster contest?

any plans to bring the dark knight aura that the NPC had in the lv. 50 DRK quest?

any plans for us to get Field Commander Coat besides seal rock? Since not many do it most of the time.

Would it be possible to easily implement a way to change the color of the mouse curser, or even offer different designs of it? I feel like this would be a cool improvement to the game!

Hello, I have a question regarding if it will ever be possible for the devs to ever maybe adding/reimplementing the 1.0 running/walking animation back? I understand that it was removed in 2.0 due to gameplay reasons, but I see no reason for it being outside of combat. Maybe it could be like a animation that can be switched on or off kinda like battle poses (only in town), or maybe even somehow make it a cosmetic item in the mog station, idk (just examples).

It was one of the few reasons I continued playing 1.0. It felt way more fluid and created a real weight to the character.
Video example

Can we have more linkshell slots please?

Sometimes, it seems as if none of the NA/EU questions are chosen for Live Letters. Can you not guarantee that the top question or top three questions with the most likes is actually asked?

I feel it would benefit SE were it to sell modestly prices plushes rather than over the top expensive statues. Why not sell plushes for every single minion rather than the basic few it does? I've been waiting for years to get my hands on plushes of the Scions.

Aside from DDoS, there seem to have been some server program issues causing players to be randomly disconnected from large-scale instances such as 72-person PvP matches and then later the 144-person Eureka instances. Thankfully, I haven't seen this in the last few days, but I may have just been relatively lucky. Have you actually identified and corrected a fault on your end that could have been causing these?

Has your community team considered using Microsoft's Mixer platform rather than Amazon's Twitch platform to take advantage of being able to get a realtime response from chat (rather than Twitch's delay of anywhere from 5 seconds to however far behind someone's broadcast manages to be, sometimes over a full minute), built-in giveaway functions, etc.?

Some players seem to be under the impression that the number of reports received regarding a player is actually of consequence and that action may even be taken against a player based solely on the number of reports without actual proper review of the report. Can you please confirm for us all that a single accurate report is ample to have an issue corrected, that more people duplicating reports is not helpful (perhaps actionable in itself), and that action is never taken against anyone via automated means?

Has the community team considered promoting players that broadcast their gameplay on services like Mixer and Twitch? (perhaps providing a helpful pointer for those looking for a broadcast that is positive and encouraging)

Can you fix the bug that makes walla sor interactive furnishings dessapear in the houses, mainly wiht the White partittons those you can add Wall papers as the walls in the house :confused::rolleyes:

I have a question about that. We have the same options as 2.0, I know that you can't do more than you already did.
But also you, said that you can work on the current options.
When you are planning to finally do it? Players would be happy with more options. Just it.

Thank you.

Could we get the ability to exclude certain mounts from the Mount Roulette and Flying Mount Roulette?

Storing Mog Station and Campaign-Only Gear in the Armorie

Can you allow to store Mog Station and Campaign-Only Gear in the Armorie?

Thank you for your hard work! :)

NTT PACKAGE LOSS

when you guys are planning to address the issue of some nodes losing package loss especially nodes like 204.2.229.234 if we are stuck with NTT forever on NA...








EAST COAST SERVER WHEN!?!?!

Questions/Feed-back for Changes:
1. I would really love grand companies the be reworked, feel like the system is far outdated and lacking. I've a lot of ideas for the system, though so I am limited with one reply so will try to press main ideas.
2. Grand-Company Main Scenario; personal deep story, diving into ranks of the player and the military. Making the player feel the rank, giving it a deep meaning than just a title and little to no benefit to the game as a whole. Since the current system pretty much has little to nothing; same can be said for reward.
3. Reputation like Dailies; Just like the beastman tribe from hevansward/storm blood, quest line as you rose through reputation area changes a little bit; Grand-Company would be like creating outpost in certain areas, starting from tents and possibly new recruits. The player would spend time training the soldiers, having everything slowly grow bit by bit into a fort, castle or what ever.

Questions/Feedback:
1. I would love squadrons to be reworked, since the programming seems to be very clunky.
2. Would the development team consider a system where the squadron learns mechanics, combos and how to play better the more you group as a certain job?
Example: You're a Paladin, tanking in the party in a certain dungeon; taking on possibly a npc tank within as the same class, learning how you play.
3. Squadron job progression story, just like the job quest in the game but instead you are training a certain member to learn techniques from your experience/knowledge.
4. Squadron Roulette; giving another option for daily, going deep into a dungeon and giving a nice chunk to the squad and yourself?

Questions/feedback
1. Does the development team see that current grand companies feel very lacking? and is there any plans to change it within next patch of future?
2. Does the development team see current rewards from grand companies is far outdated, nothing really important to the game? Or is there plans to change this at all?

please increase the difficulty of the game, we the hardcores neeed more FUN!!

I would like the developer team to consider reworking ninja, currently the skill kit system for it feels awkward and some skills/traits or pretty much useless. It seems like no one really wants to bring this to attention, just though I would get it out and hope people agree.

Feedback/questions:
The job trait for ninja "All Fours" is pretty much useless, not fair when other jobs have better things than "Reduces damage taken when falling." It doesn't make since, not a lot of options for this to affect and really hurting the job. I would ask the team to consider changing this majorly, just not fair cause right now ninja seems very underpowered.

Feedback/Questions
1. Hide: The ability to be stealthy as a true ninja job currently rarely gets the chance, which makes it just like a rouge who is 2nd rate. Specially since you cannot be in combat, leaving little to no chance to benefit from the reset of the ninjutsu. I would like that job to more better fill the roll of being a actually ninja, than any common dps who just has two daggers.. I always feel like it's a lack luster, feeling ill compared to other jobs and my true role.
2. I would love the ability to use "Kage Bushin" which a npc uses it, don't want to say where not to give spoilers. It creates mirror images to fight with you, would help the job become a lot more unique and fun.

Questions/Feedback:
1. I really hate within ninja questline, you are the hero of light and get cool things hitting level 70. I find it really bit of a lackluster, once you fight some one the bad guys in the ninja questline got someone with a lot better ninjutsu and it makes me feel like "Hey I am the warrior of light, yet this person is a lot cooler and can't use stuff like them. They pretty much use all what I got and more." I really feel like it defeated what was given in Stormblood and makes us look obsolete compared to the better half.
2. I live by the datacenter in California, yet I still get input lag when using the ninjutsu in a quick motion and feels clunky. I would love this to be looked at cause if i am getting it pretty share a lot of others are. It gives a big dps loss, since you got to wait a awkward second for it to go off.

Feedback/Questions
1. Would the developer team consider making ninja able to coat weapons in oils for different effects? Ability to create poisons, magical effects or something which makes it unique to them. I mean seen ninja in other games where ninjas can do that and makes since to have the ability.
2. The job doesn't feel like a true ninja, just trying to give the team ideas what to do for the class but would love for them to work on it for 4.3
I feel like ninja has been ignored for a long time, maybe not a lot of people play it cause the feel same way.

I'm a huge PVP player, and I've been a fan of the PVP system since the very beginning, when The Wolves Den was first released. I love all of the PVP modes, however, since Stormblood, the PVP system has a fixed hot bar, which does not allow you to use all of your skills. My concern/question is this, will FFXIV PVP ever change back to the original style, where you can use all of your skills? In my opinion, and many peers that I've contacted, PVP was more fun whenever each individual class had access to all of their skills, like PVE does. Over time, I've tried other games strictly for their PVP, but I always come back to FFXIV, because I love everything about this game, except for the fixed PVP hotbar... In Palace of The Dead, Each class has the opportunity to use every skill up to level 60, and I believe that if we used this system for PVP, where you can que at level 30, but can use the skills up to level 70, similar to Palace of The Dead, we can save PVP, and make it more fun for everyone.

Is there any chance the Hunt system will be looked at again in the near future? It is so discouraging for a newer player or someone new to Hunts to see we need 5000 kills for the wonderful tiger. Not everyone has the playtime or schedules to catch special spawns of 2000 S ranks.

It just feels like there was a missed opportunity to make them semi-relevant again with newer content like Eureka. Or entirely new content all together.

Could we add a setting allowing us to change the color of our fellow Fsee Company members display name? We have this option for party members, friends, and alliance members but not FC.

I would like to set up colors so my FC companions stick out more in a crowd.

Is there any intention to update the Character and Item Restoration policies? Final Fantasy XIV is now a nearly five year old game, so to have the once per account restriction is detrimental to longtime players.

Will DRK receive buffs or a re-work? As it stands DRK currently feels incredibly clunky and awkward to play. For example in o5s for the tank ghost PLD can use Hallowed Ground and WAR can easily kill the ghost before the ghost attacks while DRK either has to save and use most of its defensive cooldowns or pray their gear is good enough to kill the ghost in time without using cooldowns as DRK can't just use Living Dead for this mob without dying immediately afterwards.

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Feedback/Questions
1. Would the developer team consider making ninja able to coat weapons in oils for different effects? Ability to create poisons, magical effects or something which makes it unique to them. I mean seen ninja in other games where ninjas can do that and makes since to have the ability.
2. The job doesn't feel like a true ninja, just trying to give the team ideas what to do for the class but would love for them to work on it for 4.3
I feel like ninja has been ignored for a long time, maybe not a lot of people play it cause the feel same way.

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they used to have two different venom types and then they removed them. I don't think they'll put something like that back.

Are their any plans on doing a Mount Contest ?

On Cactuar, we have a person who uses gathering bots across several accounts who has been reported numerous times. Nothing ever happens to this person so they brag and continue.

Is the information on the Report Cheaters not sufficient for GM's to take action? Please update the form to let us know if you need specific details. Otherwise, please have a look at the bot reports for Cactuar and permanently ban this person and their botting accounts. They are harming the community.

Could we have an instanced FC facility such as a mine or Outpost in Ishgard, it feels like there is nothing for Free Companies in the Heavenward areas, and a lot of people would like the snowy atmosphere.