Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE LX (UI Designer Kei Odagiri)

As the game ages and new companies move forward with technologies such as DLSS and ray tracing I would really like to know if the developers plans for this game is to let it age as is until it becomes replaced or if there will be an effort to make sure it keeps up with new technologies?

Most long term players put heavy emphasis on Glamours, Housing and Aesthetics because it is one of the few things to do and farm once the MSQ is done and the raid tiers are cleared.

While new content is fun and the way the story line is told has become brilliant I cant help but feel that Graphics are massively important to me and a huge set of the gaming community as we have just witnessed from the incredible demand for Nvidia's new graphics card launch.

I would love to hear a statement from the Developer Team to do something to update the game graphically or at least the assurance that no such plans are in the work so I no longer have to wonder. Open communication is very important and this topic has always remained in abstract terms.

Thank you for the gpose additions! Camera/eye tracking and the new stickers and frames are great ♥
I would love to see additional features to make posing with friends easier.

Can we get something like this in settings, so that there is more freedom of animation (with consent of player)?

Gpose Character Settings:
☒ Allow friends to set my emotes
☒ Allow party members to set my emotes
☐ Allow all players to set my emotes

Can we also get an animation scrubber, to view emote animations slowly and choose the point we would like to pause?
Right now it can be tedious to toggle play/pause to find the moment we want to capture in our picture.

Additionally, a way to remove the camera from the character (or to focus it on the model's location instead of hitbox) would be helpful.
Example issue: Right now it is very difficult to take a screenshot of some of the DNC LB3, because the character model moves so far out of screen you would need a second player to stay in the instance with you so that you can use their camera location instead of your character's, since the camera will not zoom out far enough to see your own character when it's the target. It's also difficult to move the camera when the character is in the air, since it cannot rotate at angles that would show their face due to ground collision.

Thank you for continuing to update gpose!

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Originally Posted by Fate_Testarossa

You can actually use Ctrl to push other elements into the background in order to be able to click the aetheryte. A similar way to access your summoning bell is also available by pressing X in case the summoning bell is crowded by players. However, I'm not sure what other interactable elements you're talking about so I'm not sure if this is a solution for everything you wanted.

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OH! That's great to know, thanks.

Edit: It's still a bit obscure, so maybe that option could be made more obvious?

Can you please give the gardening interface some updates? To use it right now requires a lot of clicking and I personally stopped fertilising each hour because of how much clicking is involved. If you don't want to drastically change the interface, could you please just add options for:

1) Tend all crops (if nothing else please add this!)
2) Fertilise all crops (which would need the number of fishmeal for the amount of applicable crops)

Thank you.

Could the retainer interface be given some updates please? Right now if you have multiple retainers then talking to each of them, collecting what they have bought back and sending them out again requires a lot of clicking/button pressing.

If would be fantastic if we could just say "Collect all retainer items" (to return back all items from ventures at once) and also "Send retainers out on same ventures again" (which would send any waiting retainer back out on the previous venture). If someone wanted to change the venture, they could do it between the two steps.

Thank you.

Can we get an actual UI for egi glamours? It's kind of ridiculous to have to remember the specific text command syntax every time we wanna change our summon from one glamour to another. Maybe put a Bahamut size option in that UI as well.

Hello Mr. Odagiri,

I will start off by saying that GPose is by far and away my favorite feature of FFXIV. I was introduced to the concept of "in-game photography" in Dragon's Dogma and Grand Theft Auto V, but FFXIV's GPose feature is the most robust in-game screenshot tool I've encountered in any game thus far. I've appreciated all the updates that have been made to GPose since it was introduced. I've entered almost every Screenshot contest that the NA community has held, so I've spent a lot of time playing around with all the options.

* On to my first question... Would it be possible to add an Ability selection feature within the GPose interface? (Similar to how we can change characters emotes within GPose)

It'd be nice to be able to play with different battle animations in GPose after dungeons/trials/raids in some of arenas without the limitation of only being able to use the last ability used by the character in battle (or abilities that don't require a target).

It'd also be extra nice if this menu included all versions of abilities a class/job would have access to (i.e. Stone I, Stone II, Stone III...) and all versions of the Limit Break. Limit Break screenshots are fun... but it's very tense in battle (especially as a tank or healer) when the boss get's down to less than 5% and no one has LB3 yet... and you start to wonder... "can I get away with using the LB3 now and not doing anything else til the battle is over so I can play with the animation in GPose afterward? What if I use it then something goes wrong and I have to use other abilities? Then I've 'wasted the LB' and wasted my opportunity to play with it in GPose."

To me it sounds like a simple menu to add... but are there factors I'm not considering that would make this difficult to implement?

Since early on in ARR the max rank attainable in Grand Companies has only increased twice from 2nd Lieutenant to what is now the max rank of Captain. Is there any plan on bringing out more content and ranks in a speedier fashion? At the current rate, we might (if ever) get to the max rank in about 15 to 20 years.

Could a method of sorting our learned Blue Magic be implemented? Perhaps by name for example. It's difficult to find a spell sometimes.

Could Free Company member names be given a visibility option like we have for friend list? I like to play with names off but it's nice to see when my friends are nearby, it would be nice to extend this to FC members so I don't need to add them all to friend list.