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

We all love the main story and want more. How many hours of story will come out every 3 months?

will there ever be more variety in music in each zone.

Even thought the Final Fantasy saga has always had an extensive amount of spells & skills, Final Fantasy A Realm Reborn is lacking in this department. What are the reasons behind the creation of such a small amount of skills and spell, why is it that some boss's can uses spells that are otherwise unusable by the player and why is it that so many moves were removed completely from FFXIV going from version 1 -> current version.

The original announcement on veterans awards led me to believe that Fantasia would allow me to change everything about my character except her class. My character was initially created in Beta 4 for testing error 90000, so I just used a quick auto-generated name for her. I didn't like the name, but decided to continue leveling this character because I thought I would be able to change it later. I now have a level 25 Gladiator, with all Dol and DoH classes ranging from 10 to 26, who has a name I don't want. My FC knows me as Fixitman on TeamSpeak, so it would have been very helpful to change my character's first name to something similar.

Are character name changes going to be available in the future?

Will there be good primals? Say ones that see our good deeds and lend their strength to us to help defeat the evil primals? Long question short will we get awesome summons? Lol.

So the million dollar question that has never seemed to add up up and seems in 17 pages no one one wants to post it:

How could you not expect this many players? you have plenty of data to assume 6+ million players to be ready for servers to handle from beta invite requests, past players, pre-sales. I had heard something along the lines of a "limited budget" to create this game, but with pre-sales wouldn't the budget and foresight increase?

But as my content question: what do you feel will be that next amazing addition to MMO gaming you are looking to do that will shatter anything else out there?

In regard to the Free Company Housing, will there be new DoL classes in regard to building houses (ex. Architect, Carpenter)?

Second question: For Free Company Housing, is there anyway to expand our house? Acres, sq.ft, etc. Add floors to the building itself? I was able to peruse the land of Mist in Limsa Lominsa during the Beta Phase, and the houses don't look entirely large in respect to the area. Was that just a demo, or is that truly what Mist will look like?

Third question: Another FC Housing question. How much is the Free Company House? Does it vary depending on the size of the house? Plot of land? Location of housing? (Ul'dah, Limsa Lominsa, Gridania, Coerthas, Mor Dhona)

Will there be an Inventory Sort Option??

Will the horrible server delay/character responsiveness s be addressed as stated back in Beta?

Regarding the Crystal Tower, how long will the trek be? Considering it has x amount of floors to clear. Will there be places to save your progress if it is like 100 floors? Aetherites every 5 floors? (Just brainstorming here)

A question for both Crystal Tower and Bahamut's Coil. Will there be a cycling of monster positions and path changes like a labyrinth way of thinking. I understand players in the forums are growing bored of the same formula after having solved the way to beating said dungeon, and so I suggest there be some type of randomization of map pathways to change up the environment. But... that will be in my dreams. It will take far too much memory to issue that.

So before 2.0 launched you allowed people to transfer characters. Now my 1.0 character is in Hyperion and my brother and friends cannot create characters there. Any plans on another server transfer.. pretty please? Not to move them to Hyperion but just to be able to move to a server we can all play on.

Will Vanity Slots also apply to weapons?

Can a option or setting be added somewhere to disable all cut scenes in an instance you have already defeated at least once?

I remember there used to be the ability to trade items for items using our retainers, is there any way this can be brought back? Given the current economy in the game where many items are only worth their vendor prices this would allow players to trade such items for other items of the same value and avoid market taxes and fees.

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

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Not necessarily everything but more.

Except the game is rapidly changing badly with the growing RMT population!
Not just the constant shout, yell, & Tells distracting you and making it impossible to see any one else sending a message!
I'm starting to see organized power leveling parties that doesnt look like random players!
I was in an area where no one was around and 20 players arived close to me i checked the map nothing was indicating a fate but 5 seconds later it started then all of them acted so quickly as if a computer was controling their moves!
I hope your taking a serious approach to eliminate every & all RMT from this wonderfull game before they destroy it!

Hello. I need to repurchase my digital copy of ARR on PSN. Is there any news you can give us on the continuation of digital sales?

When will marriage be available? and what are the benefits of it? thank you. me and my girlfriend love to play this game and can't wait to tie the knot and share a house in this amazing game.

How much info can you give us on the Chocobo Breeding System?

Thank you

Any plans to separate the SMN and SCH attributes? if you go all INT for SMN you'll be completely gimp when you switch to SCH because it's main stat is MND.

As a healer i find the party layout to be to cluttered and ay some times hard to see the debuffs that have been applied. When will we see an option to like modify the party layout that will suit a healer like myself

Is there any chance certain servers can be deemed for Role Playing, Player vs. Environment, Player vs. Player, or Role Playing/Player vs. Player?

Mr. Yoshida, what are your top three locations from other Final Fantasy games that you would like to see appear in A Realm Reborn? For me personally, I'd like to see Ipsen's Castle (FF9), The Evil Forest (FF9), and The Phantom Train (FF6). :)

ADDING NEW RACES

I'm Extremely eager for the inclusion of new races, (espically Viera, and possible a more gruesome male race inclusion like bangaa or guapo). So my question, Are you still planning on including additional races in the future? I really would not wish to be eager about possible race inclusion if you guys are unsure about there possible addition. Please give us something.

2. How else can we give you feedback, or future hopes for additional content?

This is what I would like to know, and i'm sure others would too:

Since you have made it to where SCH and SMN are forced to share stats, what is the future for upcoming classes you implement into the game?
Since by the time a new class is given to us, most of us will have at least one or two level 50 jobs, or more than that even. So, when you bring out more classes, they'll more than likely be a branch out class like ACN -> SCH/SMN, so does that mean, after all our work, and already allocated stats into a profession, we'll be forced into reallocating our stats if we decide we want to try out the new branched class? Or will you find it in your hearts to make it so we can allocate stats separately for each class? Could you also explain why we have to share stats to begin with, as i'm not sure for the reasoning.

Thank you.

1. Is there any updates on the “katagami” system that was mentioned in Letter IV?


2. Will there ever be added an incentive to have multiple characters? It says at the Mog Station before you pay that it is recommended you upgrade from entry to standard account, yet having more then one character seems pointless due to the class system.

Would it be possible to make other characters like "Skins" you wear and have all the class level and character development connected to your account? Or at least have this be an option?

Hi, i would like to know if you are planning to give a one time free character transfer.
I have friends playing on different severs for the reason that we all couldnt get into the same one because of the lact of space and the insane server down/locked time and we just didnt want to wait to play a game that we paid money for. The answer to this is whats going to decide for us if we are going to continue playing this game after the free trial.

thank you.

Ps. Its a beautiful and fun game. I hope to keep playing it.

Can you change the rendering priority of mobs and players? Right now when many many players are in an area, mobs do not show up. If this was just graphical, it would be fine, but it's done such that our aoe spells do not hit them either. For instance, I will cast blizzard II when I know there are 5 mobs around me (if I change camera angle they show for a second), and none of them get hit. This is a serious problem because, among other things, it means that you do not get credit in fates.

Are there plans for company wars or big scale player fights, I imagine not full companys but I'd like to think that if theres goin to be 24 player instances for crystal tower then it would be great if we could have 12 on 12 company ( or even non company) battles for rewards like wagered gil or company credits.

Thanks for the game. Lovin it.

{Ninja} {Can I have it?}

Sorry if this has been asked but here goes.

1. Are there any plans to address the discontent felt by many Legacy Players (and certain 1.0 players) in being "locked out" of the "special" storyline in ARR? To be more specific, I refer to that only certain people got the Legacy opening and are therefore recognized as Warriors of Light. Many people who did not receive this opening supported and continued to support FFXIV's relaunch. Their support should be recognized.

2. Are there any plans to add a kick feature to parties?
For example, in light of the recent patch certain players have chosen to enter a dungeon and AFK most if not the entire run - having the ability to remove such players or even abusive players from a party would be beneficial to the rest of the party.

3. Are there any plans to penalize players for rage quitting groups/being removed from the party (if such an action was implemented)?

4. In player housing will we be able to interact with furnishings?

5. Going along with player housing are there any plans to establish a garden?

6. Any idea when the rest of the class mounts will be implemented?

7. Any plans to curb the amount of gear players get from quests to about level 10~15? Currently, the amount of gear players get from quests and dungeons make for crafting gear to be nigh useless- especially at low levels.

8.In regards to Materia, are there any plans to allow players to meld their most valued stats to their gear? For example, STR for DRG. The fact that one can hit the "Materia Cap" so quickly is a bit alarming.
Also, is it possible to increase the amount of stat bonus Materia gives? Currently the amount of a stat that Materia gives isn't anything to write home about and that lackluster effect only increases as the Materia tiers increase. Tier IV Materia should be giving +10~15 to any given stat, maybe even +20- not +6~9 to a stat.

In anycase, thanks for your time!
Good job on ARR, so far so good.

Will 2.1 see the addition of lvl50 guildleves?

Another quick question, is it possible to have a loot list (a la FFXI) so that we don't lose an item we are farming for should we suddenly notice that our inventory is full?
That way we can quickly check our inventory and discard any useless items that may have accumulated during a farming session.

Are there any future plans to give Fisher a secondary weapon like a tackle
box? It could also help free up inventory for all those lures and bait by giving them their own inventory space.

Any plans to add crafting/gathering quests (real quests, not levequests) outside of the once every 5 levels guild quests? Same question but regarding FATE's for the crafting/gethering classes (of which I believe there are currently 0)?

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Can you change the rendering priority of mobs and players? Right now when many many players are in an area, mobs do not show up. If this was just graphical, it would be fine, but it's done such that our aoe spells do not hit them either. For instance, I will cast blizzard II when I know there are 5 mobs around me (if I change camera angle they show for a second), and none of them get hit. This is a serious problem because, among other things, it means that you do not get credit in fates.

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This question but also including NPC's. Many times I've waited for ages in town or at crowded camps for NPC's to appear, but everyone's grandmother and carbuncle has to load first.

Will we ever be able to set the order ourselves of what/who loads first between NPC's/items, monsters, party/friends/FC/LS/etc, other players, pets/minions/buddies/followers, etc?

Sorry Carby, you'd go to the bottom of my list...

1. Any plans to improve your abysmal English language customer support?
2. Many player do not realize that a good portion of RMT spam is coming from hacked accounts. The accounts are being hacked even though these players are careful and have not engaged in RMT or other suspicious activities themselves. There are many players that as a result have been suspended and banned. What are your plans to help these players get back into the game?
3. What are your plans to help these players increase the security of their accounts?
4. Is your server side security compromised?

PS: I love the game and have yet to encounter even a single bug. This game is amazing but since even before release SE has struggle with accessibility issues, although many of the server side issue are coming closer to resolved the RMT issue and hacked account issues are enormous, please resolve them quickly so you can hang on to this amazing community.