Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XX! (FFXIV: ARR)

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Originally Posted by Causality

In addition to this May we also add an Ax to the prize vendor? I was very disheartened to find that everybody gets a weapon.... except Warriors.

http://i.imgur.com/qYud1Bp.jpg

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War isn't alone. SMN and SCH don't have weapons too.
In the french community we got this answer : "You noticed that all Gold Saucer weapons are related to an ennemy. The reason why there's no WAR, SMN and SCH weapon is because they would have to make a lots of modification about how some ennemies act to make their weapon wearable. We have planned to add them in the future."
This was mostly that if I remind well. I'll search for this post.

Yoshi-P,

why have waist models been removed in 2.0? Will they ever have a comeback?

Could you implement a way for our character not to pick up an item we dont want? Maybe a "book" of past-collected items where we can highlight items we don't care to have taking up space in our inventory?

Another question, sorry if this has been asked already:

in Final Fantasy 11, 1st expansion (Rise of the Zilart) requires player to finish main story of original FF11. Why following same formula with Heavensward?

And for future expansion (if there's any), would it also requires completion of Heavensward main story, or would it be separate story like XI's 2nd expansion and so on?

RMT and annoying /tells is none stop. Are there any action to stop people selling gold and stop the annoying messages?
RMT also destroying AH economy. Will you take action to ban people in expansion better than what is done currently?

The problem with Glamour's

Can we please be able to have a choice to break them down and put on a list still let us use the prism to put them on us but come on there's not enough room breaking them down to put on a list would remove all stats from them so why not?

I and many people are very interested in seeing a polymorphing utilizing job (e.g. Druid) for the first time in a final fantasy game. Have you ever considered adding a job that transforms into different beasts as part of their attacks?

Will we be seeing higher ranks for grand companies?

Can you fix the pet AI please? :) IE, have pets move out of AOE automatically, follow the raid boss properly, etc.

Chocobo Racing is really fun, but once someone reaches Generation 9, there is currently no way to obtain Chocobos of a Higher Tier.

Are there currently any plans to increase the number of possible generations for Chocobos?

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Originally Posted by Sheri

Is it possible to add a game based on luck like: rock-paper-scissors? c:

maybe with a weekly limited score of winning, so that rewards will be fair. Or as a tournament instance with say 8 players.

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I like to call this 'Duty Roulette' :P No really though Having something like that in the toybox or at gold saucer (Besides lotto) would be fun. Like Slot Machines.

Would it be possible to add a right click + report button for RMT?
Would it be possible for SE banned RMT to show up as (Banned) on our black list?
In addition to the above suggestions, would it be possible to institute an account wide mute after a certain, undisclosed, amount of times an RMT is reported?

Also, a great QoL improvement would be to have a one click feature to friend requests. For example, if I click no to a friend request from Dghjkgsdf Fkfksfsjkgl then I shouldn't have to go into my friends list and decline it again.

What can we expect with materia, will V be introduced? In additional there is a lot of useless materia such as elemental ones, will you look into removing that type of materia and add more unique stat based materia such as Haste/Refresh/Store TP/etc.

Will you just release the patch notes for 2.55? Its only 10 minutes until servers are down and I want to read and salivate from the mouth like a rabid dog looking at a juicy bone on the other side of a fence already!

What are the plans for the current relics (zodiacs), how will it work in 3.0+?

It feels that a lot of hardcore focus tends to be specifically directed towards the 8 man raid of whatever patch is out. In the future it would be nice to see a hardcore focus in a 4 man setting.

Has there been any thought to adding an interim 4 man dungeon that has the same difficulty and takes the same kind of coordination as an 8 man raid?
It would be nice to see something that could be used as a way to get interim loot for raids after the weekly lockout for the endgame raid is finished. It would also give a repeatable challenge for those interested in a harder dungeons without the need for finding a static.

Will we see new ranks in the Grand Company soon? I've been at Second Serpent Lieutenant for almost forever!

1. Will we be able to stock Eternal Bond's costumes and IL90 Artifact gears in Armoire?
2. Will we see a sequel of Edda's story?
3. About Low-level dungeon level sync. Is it possible to let us use all the skills we already learned in low level dungeon? Just reduce only status parameters.
4. Why in English version Paladin is "Paladin", but it is "Knight" in Japanese version. As an FF fans my image on this 2 jobs on this series is totally different, and I think nowadays Paladin is more appropriate with "Knight" because there are no holy-theme skill at all.
5. In English version. Can you change some a skills name (mostly magic skills) to be the same as Japanese version? Because they give more "original" FF feeling.
Ex.
- Cure 1 / Cure 2 / Cure 3 > Cure / Cura / Curaga
- Manawall / Manaward > Mabarrier / Wall
- Fester > Miasma Burst
- Resurrection > Resurrect
- Hallowed Ground > Invincible
etc.

Would it be possible to make it so that we can turn off the battle music? Sometimes I prefer to listen to music of the area.

Would it be possible to have another method of obtaining a Draught Chocobo? I don't think anyone would pay for 90 days of playing without giving the game a try first.

Why no any channeled spells or actions in FFXIV?

How am I able to enter Ul'dah even after Patch 2.55's storyline? Shouldn't I be arrested, or attacked, or something? >.>;

We are still overwhelmed by achievements and quest rewards items such as:
Sable Death Mask, Mended Imperial Pot Helm, Spriggan Cap, King Slime Crown, Mended Imperial Short Robe, Manderville Coatee, Manderville Bottoms and more that cannot be stored in armoire chest.
Moreover for the achievement "The Insatiable" some of us have obtained all the relics required and upgraded to Zenith too. Then, because it became more easy to get better weapons, some of us did not upgrade all these relics anymore. My question is: why don't allow us to store all this stuff in the Armoire Chest? Some of these items cannot be purchased again and even so, they cost a lot. Now they just waste space in our inventories or retainer inventories and that's quite annoying. Besides, when we will have the possibility to desynthesise ilv 110 gear? Right now is quite unusefull and waste precious room as well.

Will the continuation of the Ul'dahn story take place in 3.0 or will it focus solely on Ishgard and those regions before circling back to the events on 2.55?

is the ever a chance that male characters will be able to wear the bunny crown, i would love to run around as a bulky tank with the bunny ears

Any chance of the Postmoogle Cap being dyeable in the near future?

Will we see Legendary weapons come 3.0+? Which would be harder to obtain then the current relics/zodiacs.

Hey, I really do enjoy this game, I love it! Just please tell me what is being done with the RMT spammers, some people are starting to believe that SE is getting real world money for letting them continue. I dont believe this, but thats what some people are saying... The RMT is growing, I'm getting like 12 RMT tells each hour. And now it seems that the in game RMT reporting system is broken, the support icon keeps flashing, and its been broken since January, thats along time. People are less motivated to report RMT activity if the support icon keeps flashing. Whats being done about this RMT activity, something serious?
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Why does every storyline primal, with the exception of Thornmarch (Hard), not have any loot drops upon completion of the duty?

I saw this post by Bayohne:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/pr/blog/000963.html

Talking about developing a mini RTS Strategy Game in the Gold Saucer using Minions called "LORD of VirMINION" (based on Lord of Vermillion, Square-Enix's card game) ...

As I read through the blog post, I was a bit excited... until I saw that this entry was published on April 1st ... and featured the male / female Viangaa (Viera x Bangaa) Minion ...

Is this REALLY being developed (which would be awesome if it was, because it would give minions a purpose outside of merely vanity), or is the Development Team trolling us on April 1st and making fools out of us? I'm a bit curious.

If you were able to include any job at all with no strings attached, which would it be? It doesn't matter if it fits with the lore or not. I'm really curious to know what you would include without any restrictions holding you back, haha.

Will we ever get a mannequin-like object as a furniture piece that we can dress with our own gear? I believe this was talked about a couple times before.
It would be nice to have some armour sets on showcase.

With Omega Weapon, the Floating Continent, and who knows what other "forbidden" Allagan horrors waiting to be unearthed in the expansion and beyond, did we really meet that guy, with that one-of-a-kind ability, just so he could tell us that any of his ancestors' remaining messes are for us to clean up, with no help from him, while he takes a nap? Given that conditions in Eorzea manage to keep getting worse with everything we fix, isn't that too irresponsible, even for him?

After experiencing the ending to ARR, I congratulate the writers for making an ending that kept me at the edge of my seat all the way.

However, the ending, without spoiling a word here, has left some plot holes if players attempted certain Job quests and Class quests after the ending of Before the Dawn. I will not speak them here but my question is:

Would it be safe to assume that the game has its own timeline? That depending on the line of patches of ARRs history is the true timeline? I understand that we are the makers of our own history but we can't turn back and think that certain events will be as if they never happened.

With the expansion and the addition of the AuRa, will the other races see new features other than new hairstyles?
For example: new voices, tattoos, facial features, face types, etc.

Will you please fix the animations with Mutamix Bubblypots when exchanging 5 materia?
The animation when exchanging 5 useless materia for hopes you don't get elemental materia again, the animation with Mutamix Bubblypots just makes it a pain. Can you make it simple process, such animation is smoother or not there. Make it as fast as you were selling useless mats to a NPC.

Any plans to improve countermeasures against RMT?

Will we ever be able to dye the secondary colors on gear? ie The White or Purple portions on Gloam Tabard.

How you plan to implement 3.0? Will it be buy a major maintence with 3.0 being activated after that? Or will it be already in the game and go active at a certain time?

SUBJECT: Remaining Metallic Dyes

When are you going to add the orange, purple, and yellow metallic dyes?