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

When will the details and pricing of the PS3 digital download be announced? Will it be ready in time for pre-ordering?

Hello and thank you for taking questions.


To supplement the following quote, I would like to add to it and then ask a related question...

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Originally Posted by Rowyne

When will the team come to a decision about officially designating one or more roleplay servers?

It has been confirmed to be coming to ARR in two different posts:



Quote Originally Posted by Bayohne View Post

Greetings,

Apologies for the delay, I know you've all been waiting on a response to this topic.

There aren't any plans to designate a roleplay server for the upcoming World Merge. However, Yoshida did tell us "I also like roleplaying, so with the launch of version 2.0 we'll prepare a roleplay server."


Quote Originally Posted by Hvinire View Post

While we understand you guys are eager to hear about an official role-playing server (especially before you choose where you and your friends want to play), the team doesn't have any new progress on this idea just yet. We're continuing to look into it, and hope to have something to report later.



There seems to be a demand for one legacy and one non-legacy roleplay server. Will there be one of each?

Also, as the RP community chose Balmung back in 1.0 as the unofficial roleplay server, will Balmung now be designated the official legacy RP server? It would cause the least amount of upheaval.

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Here's my addition to the quote above me, taken from a little over a year ago:


"GamerEscape: You told Famitsu that you are thinking about making new servers focused on different languages. Are there any plans to designate roleplay servers? I know the players on Besaid would love to be officially recognized as an RP server.

Yoshida: We do recognize a need to set up a designated roleplaying world. We will look into this in a proactive manner!"


There were other posts by moderators and staff regarding this, though the last official recognition of RP servers was back in June of 2013 when the Square Enix poster said that it was still being researched and that we would get information as soon as it was.


Considering that Square Enix has officially marked servers for existing players and different languages (both tagged differently), will we have a(n) RP server(s) marked in at least the same way during Open Beta so that we don't have to start over yet again?



Thank you for taking questions and for yet another Live Letter from the Producer.

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Will it be possible to dye the tips of Miqo'te tails a different colour to the Hair/Highlight colour? Caould this be added to the features the Barber will provide?

I miss my white tail-tip T______T

Will you be bringing back foundation day as an in game event/holiday? I enjoy the holidays but this one is specific to FFXIV lore not just real life events, so I hope you bring it back.

will there be alot of required grouping? I really like grouping

Can you give us any information about any other new classes or jobs besides the ones we know of?

Will hair styles across all races/clans be allowed for picking in the released version of FFXIV ARR?

IE: Will f highlander be allowed to have the same hair style as f midlander, or even f roegadyn?

Ive heard in the past there will be airships that players will be able to get/fly is this true?

Will characters be able to base their allegiance in Frontlines on the nation their free company is linked to rather than their grand company?

(If not free companies that want to run frontlines will be forced to join the same grand company)

PLEASE READ: I have spent countless hours (more than many darklight seekers) leveling DoL and DoH classes so that I can gather/craft HQ materials that make the highest HQ gear possible. For all that work I feel a little slighted.

Currently there isn't much benefit to craft great gear when you can raid dungeons for better gear in less time. Do you have plans to introduce exclusive high level gear only available from the greatest crafters in Eorzea?

We are all excited for open beta and launch! However, looking ahead, is there a timeline for the first expansion/major patch update? When, if not now, will you all be ready to give us a glimpse of that content?

Do can we have more Limit break? or something that new that can learning by quest?

I am deaf player and fan of Final Fantasy series, I am legacy player and I am very exciting to see much improve in Final Fantasy XIV ARR! I believe in you become success this game. However, It got my attention that you will implement for teamspeak or other program for them to use mic talk over to other player, I felt that it oppressed to Deaf and Hard of Hearing players (community) that they can not hear, therefore the group, party, linkshell may not use insert the text chat box. They will consider us lousy player or noobs, it big concern for me to see their abuse kick out player if they do not have MICS. I was hope that MICS are not Implement in the game. Otherwise do you have anything to offer for us to Deaf and Hard of Hearing community to rest assured from other player being abuse to kick them out due they do not have MICS ?

Thank you
/bow
May the twelves with you!
Aliton

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Originally Posted by Aliton

I am deaf player and fan of Final Fantasy series, I am legacy player and I am very exciting to see much improve in Final Fantasy XIV ARR! I believe in you become success this game. However, It got my attention that you will implement for teamspeak or other program for them to use mic talk over to other player, I felt that it oppressed to Deaf and Hard of Hearing players (community) that they can not hear, therefore the group, party, linkshell may not use insert the text chat box. They will consider us lousy player or noobs, it big concern for me to see their abuse kick out player if they do not have MICS. I was hope that MICS are not Implement in the game. Otherwise do you have anything to offer for us to Deaf and Hard of Hearing community to rest assured from other player being abuse to kick them out due they do not have MICS ?

Thank you
/bow
May the twelves with you!
Aliton

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Just so you know, they said they would NOT implement in game spoken chat but that players were free to pursue their own out of game methods of spoken communication. In game spoken chat requires moderation, which is very difficult without written logs of all that is said, and encouraging players go go with Ventrillo/TeamSpeak/etc takes that responsibility off of SE's shoulders. I too do not use spoken chat so I am very happy that it isn't mandatory (which it would quickly become if every pick up group suddenly had access to such tools by default) ^_^

Does Yoshi look good in a speedo? If so please post a picture.

For the many of us with jobs, please provide the AUG schedule so that we may plan ahead for phase 4 and early release.

It has been mentioned that soon after launch in one of the upcoming major patches that a new race(s) will be introduced. Will existing characters be able to change to the new races or will an entirely new character be needed to play on the new race?

Why do so many armor sets feature males wearing pants and females wearing only short skirts (even tanking gear)? Same deal with only female artifact armor having exposed a stomach and only male bard artifact having an undershirt.

Can we have in-game casino that we can either bid on chocobo race or pvp or random 2 nm fight?

Are there any plans to implement Red Mage? or a dual wielding/2 handed sword class? I very much miss my red mage, beastmaster, and dark knight. Keep up the good work and I can't wait to see what you guys have in store for the future.

About my relic current process

I already try hard to reach last stage. that have only fight ifrit for get my first one relic item. but i can't win it before 1.0 end. what will happen with item that i already trade and collect when arr run? use all new item ? find new from 0? or just trade old item and ready to fight again? 4-5 month for collect coin and 2 month speed run dungeon T-T with drama and tear.

One other question: can you show/tell us anything about the mobile app and will it be for android and iphone?

What long-held plans are you most excited about introducing into the game?

With the Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part VIII coming to a close, we'll be likewise ending this thread here. Thanks for watching and submitting all your great questions! :)