Your questions for the Letter of the Producer - LIVE

The 2.0 PDFs released last year say this:

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One day, a massive geological anomaly suddenly appears from deep within the ground. Current players will have the opportunity to unlock the mysteries surrounding this strange, new landmark in the coming months.

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"Current players" makes it sound like this should have been part of 1.xx's Seventh Umbral Era storyline, but even after patch 1.23b, there's still no geological anomaly anywhere. Is this still coming in the current version of the game, do we have to wait until ARR for it, or has the idea been abandoned?

How can we expect seasonal events to change in ARR? Will the events be similar to what we have now, or will there be a lot of differences?

Would it be possible to change gathering classes to hold out and then holster your tool with the active and passive button instead of sitting through the long animation everytime you attempt gathering?

Auto tp regen instead of building it, having to quest for xp, gear score, almost instant timers. All these things that both FF mmo's haven't had and it made them different from every other mmo and it's why I loved and play them cause that made them unique. I welcome some a lot of changes but some of them scare the hell out of me. The last thing I want is to play WoW or a standard mmo with a FF skin on it. How is it going to still be unique in play style and not just using characters or objects from a FF pasted onto a WoW base?

I was wondering is it possible to eventually do more with seasonal events, like putting snow on the ground, or have falling snow weather during winter events, or falling leaves and wind during the fall, flowers everywhere during spring etc.?

Will you be leaving in any pieces of the previous version for nostalgic reasons?

Currently, there is no reason to EVER use a class, jobs are simply too superior, will you be balancing out classes/jobs?

Will you be implementing some sort of costume slot? I really want a red bow on the end of my tail.

How dark is the night time graphics? Been hoping it to be very dark.

Will there be english subs?