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

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Originally Posted by Kavaskous

Are you planning on adding any new regions, however small, to the game in addition to what's already been remade? With so many hard-working employees, I wouldn't put it past them.

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Given how quickly ARR has been put together, how quickly can we expect our first expansion, and what scale can we expect? Will there be enough areas to collectively form the rest of the continent?

I just heard about the Before Meteor soundtrack coming out in Japan! Will this not be released in other regions? I know the game is Japanese-made, but it has a strong international community. I don't think it'd be fair to restrict release to one region when there are people in other places who would be willing to throw down the money in a heartbeat.

Will all regions have a fair chance to redeem limited or exclusive digital item codes in the future? eg. Dalamud Minion, Moogle Earring

Regarding PVE end game, what end game PVE content do you plan to have available on, or shortly after release? And can you give us a general idea of how you plan to move forward with end game raid progression?

If content finder supports finding people to play with across multiple servers, will we be able to message players across servers? Will we temporarily 'jump' to their server to play with them we are in their group. Will we be able to play with friends who are on different servers?

A lot has been said about how to find players to raid a dungeon or fight a primal with, but what about finding crafters and gatherers? Will there be anything like a content finder for repairs? A way to find someone who's gathering and available to work for you? With the introduction of housing, I expect a sudden great need for many gatherers and many crafters but how are players to find those people (including myself, I'm happy to put myself up for hire) outside of their own link shells and free companies?

Will there be anything like a content finder or some sort of in game noticeboard allowing crafters and gatherers to both offer themselves for work and find tasks already advertised? Maybe even something like private crafting and gathering leves purely between players?

Will we be able to set our non-active minions to roam our private homes?

Possible NDA break here but I need to ask..
MY wife might give birth to our daughter sometime around E3 possibly that following week. Will I be able to play the phase 3 beta on my laptop (pending an invite) as well as my PC without disobeying the "Partial NDA"?

Priorities xD

Will you please block gear swapping in the middle of battle like it was in FFXIV 1.0?

Can you add a digital upgrade of the account for the 1.0 non-CE account holder who buy ARR CE edition?

Is 1.0 friend list carried over to ARR and if so will people on the list get the notification about it?
I've added many people to friend list during 1.0 that are not really my friends, I wouldn't want them to get any message from me because it can make both them and me feel awkward.

Many existing 1.0 players that don't have PS3 are frustrated because they just learned that the Windows Collector's Editions they just ordered (in order to gain the physical & ingame items) can't be applied to their existing 1.0 accounts.

Is there any way that the upcoming "FFXIV Service Center” website that will be used to upgrade existing accounts to Collector's Edition status, could also have the function of exchanging a purchased unused Windows Collector's Edition registration code for a CE Digital Upgrade that can be used on an existing account?

Doing this exchange could make the newly purchased registration code no longer usable, so it wouldn't be an abused feature.... and the existing players would have their physical items and their in-game items that they paid for, attached to the account they want it on.

Could you please elaborate more on the transfer of 1.0 characters to 2.0 as far as the gender/race/server change? How exactly will it work?

Could you elaborate on how the Primals will work as far as Summoning or Company acquisition? Will it be Free Company acquisition or Grand Company and if so, how many primals can one company have? This is assuming that Summoner cannot summon the primal itself.

Will you (Yoshi-P) and Foxclon be present at Gamescom 2013 with the latest news about A Realm Reborn?

Will you implement any sort of CE code swapping service so that those of us who have a non CE account and buy the new physical CE can trade that code for a digital upgrade that can be applied to our current account? That way we don't have to buy both the CE and the CE upgrade and you'll get out of burning a whole heap of FFXIV fans for the second release date in a row (first the state of 1.0, now a bunch of people have bought the ARR PC CE game they can't use because it won't be advertised by the stores that it won't allow them to upgrade their accounts)...

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Originally Posted by Valan

Can you add a digital upgrade of the account for the 1.0 non-CE account holder who buy ARR CE edition?

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If not, why was this not addressed on the promotional page or the sales page?

Hello Yoshi

How are you? This is a kind of strange question, so bear with me. I was wondering if you will be able to do something about this scenario.

I'm currently on the EU and my linkshell is from the US they will be moving to a server where the data servers are near US, but that can effect me greatly, in terms of response/ms/lag. So will you do something that would help those people or have atleast a character transfer system (payed or not payed or "vounched" for legacy players) so that they can test the server at peak hours for approval?

Thanks you

Will linkshell data be transferred from one server to the next in the event a linkshell leader has to transfer servers due to servers being divided by region? If so, what happens in the event that two linkshells with the same name end up on the same server?

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Originally Posted by Poppa

Can you please talk about housing? Do Free Companies get housing? If so, can the Free companies buy land and make a village with Inns, Pubs, and housing for Free Company members?

Can we have friends over in our homes? IF in game marriage comes about can we share the housing with our significant other? What happens if that marriage ends in a divorce?

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http://www.finalfantasy.net/xiv/fina...nico-chokaigi/

How soon will we see official graphics driver support from Nvidia?

Will Miqo'te get a toggleable dark-nose option, similar to the nose Mithra had in FFXI?

Will there be a CTF mode for PvP?

You mentioned the possibility of having mount based mini-games such chocobo racing or something involving the Magitek Armor, but what about the Goobbues? How about Goobbue Sumo Wrestling?!?! It doesn't even have to be an exclusive event for those who obtained the mount in 1.0, other players could just rent/borrow one for the game.

Can you tell us how many songs will be on the soundtrack -The Sounds of Eorzea- and how long the Seventh Umbral Era -Waning of the Sixth Sun- special movie will be?

Thank you.

Will you be working with Standard Edition owners who purchase the PC Collectors Edition so they can get the in game items and so they do not need to pay an additional fee for the items that they have already purchased.

Will you make the Mogmog Earrings and Dalamud Minion available to North America and Europe? (Please!!)

Originally it was reported that everybody that purchased FFXIV 1.0 would get a free months when FFXIV: ARR is launched, but recently it's been stated that it's only people that purchase a new copy of FFXIV: ARR and create a new account. Can you please elaborate on those details so we know if we need to pay or not when ARR comes out.

It was said when announced that those who purchase the collectors version will receive early access, how will this work as all retailers including the square enix store for eu have listed the game to release on the 27th of August. Will those wanting to play on ps3 get a code to download from the ps store before that date then purchase the game from there local retailers on the day or will it be like version 1.0 where the collectors box gets released 2 weeks prior to its standard counterpart which I bought? I will be wanting to play on ps3 even though I previously bought the collectors version of 1.0.

Will HQ+1 items have an extra materia socket for Guranteed melding ?
Like, NQ = 1 guranteed socket, then forbidden.
and, HQ = 2 guranteed sockets, then forbidden.

Hello ^^
Will there be a possibility to apply to all Grand Companies at some point, with a special reward if you complete all three?

What the hell, One-Winged Angel?! Black Mages version!?

Will it be possible to mix and match language and voice overs. For example can I listen to Japanese voice overs with english subtitles for quests and cutscenes?

What is that gear that Yoshi's character is wearing?

When can we expect to see Samurai and Ninja classes?

When we get access back to our 1.0 characters, will that be our one and only time to be able to make any appearance/race changes or will we still have that option come 2.0?

What are the conditions you need to fulfill to obtain your chocobo buddy if there are any?

Can you be more specific about the servers for 2.0, Will the legacy servers be given regions, Maybe based on the strongest presence on that server? Or will we have to transfer to a new server to be on our region appropriate server?

As the Letter from the Producer LIVE has concluded, we will be closing the thread.
Thanks for all the great questions everyone! :)