Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XLII! (Exploring Patch 4.2)

There were plenty of FC owners who couldn't get the housing they wanted because of errors and bug issues. Can you please add bountiful amount of wards instead or create instance? You guys have not made housing better but worse.

Regarding housing:

Have you considered allowing for any house interior to be expanded to a larger size?

For example, say you buy a Small house. The exterior is Small, forever. But if you were to pay a very high fee, the interior would become not Small but Medium or Large. Even people who have just an apartment could pay a very large fee and turn their one room into a mansion.

What prevents the game from allowing that?

Please consider it. There are only three Large plots per division per ward, and more than three people or Free Companies who want them.

Does the development team consider 4.2's "property ladder" approach to releasing new residential wards a success, and can we expect to see this approach be used going forward? It certainly seems to have allowed many free companies the ability to obtain medium or large houses, but as a first-time private buyer it was disheartening to see all the medium plots disappear so quickly.

What made you decide to choose FFVI as part of the Omega raid, even though I haven't seen Omega in any part of that game?

This might be considered off-topic, since it doesn't involve in-game stuff, so I apologize in advance if it's not allowed! Figured I'd try anyways.

When Stormblood was released, I found myself at work wishing the OST was out already, because I was craving some of the songs and couldn't wait to get home to hear them. I understand it takes time to plan and release an OST, especially if it has bonus tracks, and/or other music that is added in later patches. But I was wondering if it would be at all possible to have pre-orders available shortly after the launch of an expansion or major patch, and upon pre-ordering, the customer can immediately download the audio files that are present at launch. Basically a scaled-down digital copy of the album to tide us over until we get the physical copy.

I really think this could be profitable, as players are more likely to purchase the music when it is fresh and new and surrounded by 'new patch hype'. If the official OST isn't offered until several months later, by then for many people they will have heard the music so many times, it will have lost its initial appeal. Please consider it!

My question begins with a story.

When I was little, a family friend lived on the 3rd floor of an apartment. He really wanted to garden real plants, and not just small ones and flowers on his small balcony, but didn't have the land to do it. He looked around and found a corn farmer nearby who rented out sections of his land. Each section was a fairly small square fenced area, just big enough that half of it was about the size of a shed, and the other half was the gardening area. He would leave his apartment early every morning to go to his rented out garden, take care of his plants, then go off to work. On the weekends we'd go help out, chill out with some chairs and play cards.

The reason I am mentioning this is because it reminds me of FF14's housing situation. Not everyone who "wants a house" actually wants to have a house. There are people, like me, who just want the ability to have a real garden. Such people would be more than content with an apartment and a separate plot of land just for gardening.

Would it be possible to make such "outdoors only" (and hopefully instanced for scalability) plots of land?

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Originally Posted by Veritas-Ancora

Please Allow Housing Tenants to Reset the Auto-Demolition Timer

This will at least ensure that friends who paid the owner to co-own will continue to own it if they ever take a break.

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Sorry for adding to an existing question, but just in case his reasoning isn't seen as 'good enough', I feel it's very important to add that it is a very important feature for players who are affected by real life disasters or hardship.

(My personal explanation as to why this is so important, and why pausing demolition following large-scale disasters is not sufficient -- tl;dr version below.) I had a friend horribly affected by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and he only just a couple days ago was able to log into the game for the first time in nearly five months. (He lost his home and pretty much everything he owned, but he was fortunate in that his PS4 somehow survived, and his friends purchased a PS4 copy of the game for him once things settled down.) I very much appreciate that the demolition timer was paused for this tragedy, but he could have been affected by it for far longer than the pause allowed. Fortunately he could send a friend his account info so she could log in and keep his house safe, but not all players are comfortable with sharing their account information (or possibly even able to contact friends). And the demolition timer is only implemented for widespread disaster, obviously, not small-scale instances like a house fire, long-term hospitalization, or financial crisis. Please, consider that these players are already going through tough times, and although it is only a virtual house, it might mean a lot to them. For someone who has lost everything, it is one less thing to lose. They have enough to deal with; they shouldn't have to also worry about their home in Eorzea!

tl;dr: Please consider allowing friends (or players sharing an estate) to keep it safe from demolition, in the event that the owner is unable to log into the game for reasons beyond their control.

Since you have upgraded the amount of npc in housing, thank you for that. But will there be possibility for to be able to add more indirect lighting lights to housing instead of two or at least able to angle the current ones options we have?

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Originally Posted by ExKage

Is there any link between Reisen Temple to any particular location in FFXI?

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The music is straight from FFXI (it's Iroha's theme) and it's supposed to be Reisenjima from XI. :) The Tenzen seen in the quest is the XIV version of the same Tenzen in XI (right down to the mention that he used a Phoenix Blade by one of the NPCs) so definitely a homage.

Speaking of FFXI... Yoshidaaaaaaaaaaaa! When will we get a XIV version of Besieged?! It seems perfect with what we have in this expansion and where the story is going. Has it been considered? I know Koji has mentioned really loving Besieged as well... :D

With the 4.2 housing going to one house/fc per world. Is there a way we can have it so those of us with more than one character can share said house/ownership of house? The way it stands now, I would have to relenquish the (M) house I have, just so I can have a house on my main character. This would also make it so others would not mind being left to only one house.

When are we getting dyeable AF3 gear?

Hello developers and producers, thanks for your continuous efforts to make this game more enjoyable over many years.

Regarding the changes to Bard Perform:

I appreciate having a separate UI for Bard Perform.
However, it has become more difficult to play melodies that stretch across more than one (C to C) octave (which is the case for most melodies I played).
This is because the change removed the ability to assign separate keybinds to notes one octave higher or lower, and forced the use of a modifier key / button.

Would it be possible to either make it an option to use the removed pre-4.2 actions, or allow separate customizable keybinds for each octave in the Perform UI?

In regards to the Paladin nerfs and Warrior buffs, why are you guys so racist towards Paladins? For 3 years Paladin was bad, and it took 3 years to fix, whereas warrior, it took for you guys only 6 months to fix him? Thats unfair man

In regards to housing furniture, Are you guys considering on looking at the on-estate crafting facility such as Clothcraft loom and etc? For example, expand them to level 60 as we are already in Stormblood expansion or add a level 60 equivalent of the furnishing. Those furnishing are mostly used for leveling or crafting old crafting items such as level 60 and below.

1) When will the ban on individual house purchases be lifted?
2) When the temporary ban on individual house purchases is lifted, will you be adding more wards as well or will we be getting whatever is leftover from wards 13-18?
3) It's extremely unfair for people who own a home to relocate and get first dibs on specific housing plots while the rest of us have to wait behind an RNG timer for the plot to become available. Are there any plans in the future to restrict relocation purchases so that they must wait for the RNG timer as well? That way EVERYONE has a true fair shot at specific plots such as larges and mediums.
4) People are still flipping houses and selling them for a huge profit! Because "relocating" is a separate process from outright purchasing a plot, players who relocate their home are able to by pass the RNG timer, and thus certain players are abusing this loophole to continue flipping plots for a hefty sum. What are your plans to address this and permanently end house flipping?

5) For WHM, confessions were decreased in duration from 30 seconds down to only 10 seconds. Ten seconds is not enough time to build your way up to 3 stacks of confessions, and in all honesty it feels rather pointless now because the confession stacks are so short in duration. Is there any way to extend confession stacks back to 30 seconds so they can be useful again?

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Originally Posted by Kannadi_Albedo

Regarding housing:

Have you considered allowing for any house interior to be expanded to a larger size?

For example, say you buy a Small house. The exterior is Small, forever. But if you were to pay a very high fee, the interior would become not Small but Medium or Large. Even people who have just an apartment could pay a very large fee and turn their one room into a mansion.

What prevents the game from allowing that?

Please consider it. There are only three Large plots per division per ward, and more than three people or Free Companies who want them.

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I have a question similar to this - Have you considered making apartments upgradeable? To allow players to pay a sum to increase the size of their apartment.

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Originally Posted by Aldotsk

Was there a reason why you only added 5 wards instead of 10? People are still finding ways to buy entire wards with only free company restrictions. Please add more or make a separate instance ward or plot.

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Originally Posted by Aldotsk

There were plenty of FC owners who couldn't get the housing they wanted because of errors and bug issues. Can you please add bountiful amount of wards instead or create instance? You guys have not made housing better but worse.

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First off ('cause I am so sick of the people who can't math), they added 6 wards, not 5. While that might not seem like a big difference, say that to all who currently reside in Ward 18 (and to all the future residents there as well). Secondly, don't ask the same thing over and over. If you want more wards, go through this whole thread and like all the comments asking for more wards, and direct others towards those comments as well. Don't just ask the same thing again in a different manner.

And that goes for everyone else too. I know 22 pages is a lot to read through, but please, go through all the comments before posting your question/ request. Many things have been suggested. What gets asked is based on likes, not how many times it was asked in the thread. Use "Like!" to vote for things you want to have asked. If you don't see it in here, then ask it.

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Originally Posted by MizArai

I know 22 pages is a lot to read through, but please, go through all the comments before posting your question/ request. Many things have been suggested. What gets asked is based on likes, not how many times it was asked in the thread. Use "Like!" to vote for things you want to have asked. If you don't see it in here, then ask it.

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With this in mind, would it be possible in the future to search through these threads and pick not only the comments with the most likes, but allow for a search counting likes for the same questions being asked in multiple comments so that when people can't be bothered to read through the 10 or 20 pages of comments, we can still get questions asked that people feel very strongly about?

All aside ignoring from the poster above, can we please get more wards or instance housing ?

Can you explain that some players and Free Company already abuse from the new restriction system of Housing ? Still prevent other players or FC to get their House.

Here's an example on Ragnarok :

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/...lvWAAAGsrm.jpg

(And ban me if you want for reporting names)

When do you plan to remove the restriction on individual house purchases? I'm all for everyone having one private and one FC house per account. But some of us have really been wanting a house and I think it's unfair that all the nice plots, yet again, are already gone.

It become really hard to tag old pvp content and farm them, and now it will become even harder with the new pvp content on 4.2.

Example : "Seal Rock (Seize)", I wish I could get the Field Commander set but I barely managed to tag once or twice per day when i'm focused on that (plus I need to win...)
I'm also trying to get "Keeper Of Knowledge" title but... Well same problem as Field Commander set...

My question is : Can you open pvp requirement players so we can go on old content pvp content with something like : 4 versus 4 versus 4 on Seal Rock
Or making stuff (and maybe title) available somewhere else please ?

(My apologies for my bad english)

One of the reasons people can benefit from housing is gardening, and the crossbreeding of seeds to produce rarer, more valuable seeds. This simply cannot be done within an apartment, or on the inside of a home.

Will you consider adding a 2-plot interior gardening item to allow players to use gardening for making rare items / gil within an apartment, FC room, or inside a house in general?

I know crafters aren't that many so you might never see this question... But I have to ask :

On A Realm Reborn, crafting was hard enough, it wasn't boring at all, and it was more "challenging" since we had to relay on a few skills.

In Heavensward crafting wasn't even hard, it requires some time investment but with more skills it wasn't hard.

Now in Stormblood we already have 3* craft that are supposed to have some difficulty... But I can easily use a macro for it and it's even faster.

To be honest... Crafting is less and less fun since Heavensward, when we were still in ARR there was some challenges (like earning the Lucis, in Heavensward we only got a swap color tool from achivement)...

My question is : Is it me or "high-level" crafter are more and more abandoned ? I know crafting must be accessible to everyone... But doing the same rotation over and over and over for 8 months... It's boring... (And to be honest... Having so simple rotation must be helping people using bot) Don't make them more difficult... But at least please add RNG ^^'

Also please buff the specialist skill ... From the day specialist come out, and until now It was never a "must use" and they aren't that powerfull, which make them completely useless...

Also, I know that you can do temporary expressions while emoting, but could you enable us to either change our idle expressions, or toggle how long the expressions remain active before returning to idle?

With the ''Be My Valentione'' contest we going be able to marry npcs on future? Put them on our houses and do things with them too? How about our squads? Can we have a squad hang out on GS, so we going to be able to see others payers squads and do things with them. So everyone will be able to see your squad. Why the warrior of ligh is mute? Can we receive some random voices on our char for we finally speak on the cutscenes? Where is the 2x2 pvp rank arena on coliseum in Ul'dah? Real hard to found a team of four peoples. We going to be able to climb steps on Eorzea?

Can you release the lyrics for Byakko's final theme?

Can you give us some more info about Eureka?

With how difficult it is to reliably win in Frontlines, as well as the rampant botting, can you change the mounts rewarded by achievements to require "matches played" rather than "matches won"? I would love to get the ADS mount but playing over 1,000 matches to try winning 300 makes me feel like not even trying.

Is there any plan to start implementing dagger sets that have two unique models, similar to Heavensward Thacred?

On Ragnarok there is a well known Free Company that has been bragging and sharing that they own 37 player houses to support their raiding. They even shared an image on Twitter about how they own almost an entire ward in Shirogane. Is it possible to forcibly remove these houses and allow other FC's obtain them?

Would it be possible to place housing items closer to the wall? In particular, the corners.

In regards to the new Glamour system, firstly I feel that 200 slots is far too little. While I know the system has only just been added and you need to make sure it puts as little pressure on the server as possible, could you look into increasing this value to a minimum of 500?

Second, can you allow us to glamour an item from out inventory onto a glamour plate?

The most redundant part of patches feels to be Dungeons. They are seldom talked about in live letters nor by the community. The community discuss and make guides for Trials and Raids not for Dungeons... The draw of a patch is never a dungeon... Hells Lid felt forced and copy paste of Sohm Al Hard's lava area...

Why not go with only one dungeon every patch and instead release an extra Raid floor or an extra Trial?

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On Ragnarok there is a well known Free Company that has been bragging and sharing that they own 37 player houses to supporting their raiding. They even shared an image on Twitter about how they own almost an entire ward in Shirogane. Is it possible to forcibly remove these houses and allow other FC's obtain them?

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Honestly, this needs to be brought up.

The housing updates have been a clown fiesta after the next.

Could you add alternative versions of Limit Breaks? I think the Samurai one is a bit too plain.

Can you allow Samurai to use Zantetsuken?

Heya! Can we have a Fairy version of the carbuncle house walls ^v^? A fairy Mount and clothe maybe? Or better Fairy Glam!
Thanks a lot if you can do one of those ^.^

Can you address the reason why you (YoshiP) feel like DRK should not have party wide mitigation skill like PLD and WAR has?