FINAL FANTASY XIV Letter from the Producer LIVE Part III

the gameplay in the video looked pretty good. some things i was concerned about, whether or not they were 'bugs', etc were:

• [ 1:29:25 ] the character movements - we saw a lot of weird movements from the other players and i HATE how the strafing works. it looks so half-assed for the players upper body to remain forward and the lower body to turn. humans don't quite work that way.
• [ 1:14:30 ] the 'weaponskill ring/puff' that was coming from the cnj v flower fight was very tacky and i hope that doesn't happen for every enemy weaponskill. the aero/stone effects v the flower were lacking, although the casting animation was awesome.

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Originally Posted by Aion

hey, check this, only few paragraph below your last quote

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This still made it sound like you were limited to 4 people and needed to ally Free Companies if you had more people.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

Plenty of people since it's how you search for +1 and/or melded gear with stuff that gets flooded out by low prices. Also no, it's not an awful system unless you're calling an AH an awful system as they're virtually the same system.

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An AH system where you select what you want to buy is not the same as having a street full of retainers to check.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

You should have been worried about it a long time ago. Also no where does it say you're limited to 4 people, I don't know how you even read that wrong....it said nothing about a max just a minimum amount of people needed to start one.

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I'm hoping is is only a minimum, but then there was the quote about allying if you have a group of 8.

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Originally Posted by Inaaca

You're misunderstanding, here's a dev post on the subject.

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Thanks, that dev post at least put my mind to rest on that issue. It was just badly worded in the QA post.

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Originally Posted by Denton

The letter clearly states that you CAN use the same piece of gear you just have to do the switch manually or use a macro, you know, exactly like we already do. Gear sets are for specialized swaps for example I would have felt bracers with +pie on my BRD set and felt bracers with +STR on my WAR set or something, because macros do not take into account things like materia etc. get it?

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True, but its really hampering the gear set system if you can't use it to change all of your gear. Being able to equip a full set of gear from one place is great but if we then need to resort to macros or manually changing gear in addition to the gear sets its kind of defeating the point.

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Originally Posted by AmyNeudaiz

Basically everything you said was misinformed. Sometimes I wonder if people look for things to take out of context or even take things the wrong way intentionally to cause a big deal out of nothing.

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SE have never been the best at conveying information. I'm hoping it isn't as bad as it sounds. The dev post Inaaca posted cleared things up about the Free Companies. If you have similar information that shows what we can use the same gear in multiple gear sets or won't have hundreds of retainers to look through to find what we want then please post it too.

I know for the market system we can still search for items and they're improving it too, this is a good thing. But then why bother with the hundreds of retainers anyway? What was described in the QA post basically sounded like what we have now but with an improved search system that allows searching of HQ or melded items too.

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Exactly. This sounds like if you want to have groups of more people, you need to create alliances. So if you have a linkshell of 40 people, you need to create 10 free companies and ally them all?

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Um... you can have 1 Free company with 100 people in it. (4 people of the same nation has to start the free company "Founders" then 96 other people of any GC can get into that same Free Company). If you want an alliance you need to just get more people of that Free Company.. you don't need to make other Free companies to do this.

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This still made it sound like you were limited to 4 people and needed to ally Free Companies if you had more people.

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......../facepalm


if you are lacking reading comprehension, there is a thing called "common sense" you know

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Originally Posted by Tonkra

Have you read, that Ala Mhigo and Ishgard will be introduced with an expansion?

so there is hope for those who thought that ishgard got destroyed by dalamud ;)




they balance the new combat system and skills right now.. its alpha.... X.X



well for me personally.. i LOVE the new casting animations.. its just great.

better than those static (almost non existing) casting animation right now.

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The same could be said about burst when it first came out. And look how that turned out. Yeah it's a cheap spell, not worth that 15 minute cooldown though.

And that casting animation. Oh god I hope that's hyur stance only. Lalafel with that stance will look even more odd.

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Originally Posted by Jinrya-Geki

The same could be said about burst when it first came out. And look how that turned out. Yeah it's a cheap spell, not worth that 15 minute cooldown though.

And that casting animation. Oh god I hope that's hyur stance only. Lalafel with that stance will look even more odd.

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You can see the Lalafel white magic casting in the Limit Break Trailer.

Dunno bout you, but Burst is a pretty good spike spell used properly >.>

Just finished watching the video... (long!)
many "we will make announcement later, please wait" but few points are interesting:
- I like the idea of house for LS with possibility to have rooms (anybody need a housemate? I cook!) and chocobo stable
- The fights are much faster!
- Wada is a player! o_O?!
- Character creation software allowing us to start creating our character before ARR is released
- You can have tail-less miqote (length setting to 0)
- Chocobos wear job clothes (white, black mage...)

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Originally Posted by Elexia

Dunno bout you, but Burst is a pretty good spike spell used properly >.>

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I don't know, using it with 30 HP in a combo with Excruciate, that went off, barely doing 1100+ damage on a boss.

One thing I'd like to add is how bad the new lalafell running animation is. The new walk is silly but at least makes sense. Why are their tiny legs now hopping the length of their whole body now for no reason? More of this unneeded change to cater to the new horrible strafe walking?