Ask Your Questions for the Mini Letter from the Producer LIVE at TGS!

I was wondering about Shiva, ramuh, and Leviathan. When they get released, are you going to make it like a restart of the story to encourage others to make a second class to level 50?

I mean they wouldn't be required to but it would be more beneficial even if it started at lv 15 quests and finished at ~50

Right now it says Mid-September for Character Transfer. It is now Mid-September, what date can we expect character transfer so I can play with my friends?

I am hoping that the game will have a better system combating RMT (Real Money Trading). However, for the meantime, are you willing to remove the blacklist cap from 200? I foresee people not being able to blacklist anymore once they hit the cap.

Is it possible when a RMT player gets a certain amount of blacklist from other players, gets an automatic system ban from its entire account? This way, the RMT player cannot create anymore characters to annoy more people?

Is it possible to make a RMT monitoring system, that when a player uses the shout command (Regardless of what the shout content is), multiple times (like 5 times or more in less than 5 seconds) in a short amount of time frame, he gets a SPAM warning, or else risk of getting banned. The same system should monitor /tells to different players where a certain amount of characters (100 or more) being delivered to multiple players (10 or more) in a very short amount of time frame?

Why did you give Bard the healer Limit Break... They que as a dps they should use the dps limit break. Couldn't one be designed for them as a ranged dps? or just give them the Blm/Smn LB?

Gold spamming, Chat spammers Gil sellers bogus accounts ..when is this going to be dealt with if ever.

Will we be able to have a Housing area with only friends, outside of the FC? So you can build with someone else and not only with the Free company

Is it possible the card mini-game be like FFVIII system?

With highlights:

-NPC distributed worldwide.
-possibility of turning monsters into cards.
-possibility of turning cards into items.
-tournaments by duty finder.
-lose a card when you lose the mini-game.

Hi! First thank you for making such a great game! It is now mid-September, and I have several friends who are spread out over multiple servers and we would really like to play together. When can we expect server transfers? And will there be some way to guarantee that all of us will be able to transfer to the same server before it gets full? Thank you!

Will Fantasia ever be sold, or given out more in the future?

Do you have plans to add new races if so, when do you expect them to be released? and have you considered the Padjal to ever become playable?

Any chances that Summoner will be getting a skill revamp to focus more on it's pets? And I was also wondering if you guys are happy with the way the egi's look?, because I know a lot of people who would like to seem them change a bit, to be more on the FFXI scale.

Will 2.1 have improved auto translate dictionary?

When 2.0 was first revealed, there was a bullet point of having all NPC names be globally English to ease on the language barrier during the Live letter 2 or 3 break I forgot which one.
Was this idea scraped,forgotten,or will it be implimented in the future?

Given which class-skills to use is obvious and armor being highly linear, how can players of the same job differentiate themselves?

If so, what content can we expect to see from other final fantasy games in the future?

I would appreciate some more details on how to play multiple characters simultaneously, from one FFXIV account. Will I need multiple subscriptions? How do I add the account? Should I buy an additional game, or should I wait for a purchasable code from MogStation? I am a legacy player, so I can have 40 characters. It would be nice if my wife and I could play together with 2 of them.

Some FFXIV players have work and/or college and might not have the time to play till school break or lighten work schedules. A monthly subscription might be out of the question for some of us. Is there a chance we can pay for those 30, 60, and 90 day passes through the Play Station Network cards, Amazon, or FFXIV store gift cards? If not, how will Yoshi-P address this issue?

There are four or more fates in Northern Thanalan and other places suffering massive PS3 lag and limitation issues. It makes it impossible and infuriating to level up because of this. Do you have any plans to resolve this issue?

when will gunner be added?

When will be added blink tank and dual wield?

Are there any plans to improve existing jobs? (i.e. Marauder/Warrior's Defensive Skills -- i.e. Buffing Damage Reduction of Foresight / Improving Healing Amount of Storm's Path)

When can we expect the Vanity system to be put into place?

Can you get character customization and music ideas from Tesuya Normura and implement them into the game?

When will "air" content be added and will our characters get a glide, fly and wall run ability?

I have 2 questions...

First and foremost, is there any possible chance we can have something like the Golden Saucer in this game. If it was in this game with all the activities I would probably buy a life sub (If there was one).

Second question is: any chance there is a life sub?

Are there any plans to improve the social aspect of Duty Finder by allowing people to request friends across servers and send messages across servers? Or maybe even a step beyond that to allow for players to request to play with available cross-server friends when taking on activities via the Duty Finder? It's depressing to get with a good group of friendly people in Duty Finder and then know that you'll probably never run into any of them again once it's over.

Will there be Multiple armor sets for one class that are all viable for Endgame content so a player is not stuck on a Linear armor progression? Like 4 different Item level 90 armor sets with diff looks and some stat differences so all level 50 Miqo'te paladins do not look the exact same?

1. Would SE consider changing the Duty Finder from a random matchmaker into a lobby style system similar to League of Legends. I believe this would alleviate a lot of problems such as friends and family being able to play together from different servers while transfers are being implemented or setting up private dungeons with passwords. You could chat with people before the dungeon starts to discuss strategies etc. Premade parties would be able to queue faster. Players could search through the different parties forming and join games manually instead of waiting to be randomly matched up. Parties could let people know what sorts of setups they're looking for etc.

2. Are there any plans to include more graphics options we can adjust such as draw distance and number of characters displayed to further improve graphics perfomance and allow a wider range of computers to play this game.

Will you add world content and not just instanced based content???

Can we expect another party role in the future, besides Tank, Healer and DD? Maybe buffer/debuffer?

Thanks and keep up the awesome work!

Will we ever get a drake or raptor mount and is there any possible way the raptor can be a flying mount? (please)

I appreciate the option to disable flytext that was added after Phase 4 but currently it is an "all or none" approach. Are you planning on adding a way to filter flytext in the future i.e. just your own, just party, everyone?

Will we be able to go into instances/ primal fights / dungeons solo?

why? because I want to collect achievements points. Since strangers on duty finder tend to rush things, so I don't have time to explore the map. So that why I would appreciated if we can go in solo so we can reveals the rest of the map.

And with that, i would like to personally say, thank you for the super awesome game. It is really great to see someone imagination comes to life.

Any plans to increase the drop rate from Mobs? HQ Drop rate ?

Lastly, I want to Congratulate Yoshi-P and his entire Production Staff for a beautiful, vibrant world which is ARR. :) Thank you for all the hard work.

Do you plan to support Keyboard Only gameplay? The feature was available from 1.0 as well as in FFXI, but apparently didn't make it into 2.0. Would it be possible to bring this back?

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Originally Posted by Crystalis

1. Would SE consider changing the Duty Finder from a random matchmaker into a lobby style system similar to League of Legends. I believe this would alleviate a lot of problems such as friends and family being able to play together from different servers while transfers are being implemented or setting up private dungeons with passwords. You could chat with people before the dungeon starts to discuss strategies etc. Premade parties would be able to queue faster. Players could search through the different parties forming and join games manually instead of waiting to be randomly matched up. Parties could let people know what sorts of setups they're looking for etc.

2. Are there any plans to include more graphics options we can adjust such as draw distance and number of characters displayed to further improve graphics perfomance and allow a wider range of computers to play this game.

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GO PLAY LEAGUE

Any chance at all of adding the instance fights for the relic quest to Duty Finder? Having more trouble actually getting a group than the boss fights themselves.

When we'll see 'sea' expansion with the possibility to sail into the ocean with own crafted boat to find lost islands and swim around?

Let me start off by saying that I'm greatly enjoying the game, it really is fantastic! With that said, I have two questions.

First, can we expect the world to open up a bit more as time goes on? Zones feature quite a few invisible walls that are fairly inconvenient and break the immersion. Are there plans for this to be eased as time goes on and maybe even lead into things like swimming in open water?

Second, when I play games I love to collect things. In MMOs my collecting itch is usually scratched with pets and mounts and I especially love those only obtainable through special promotions. Can we expect more promotional tie-ins for minions or mounts in the future? Maybe even cross promotions with other Square Enix MMOs like Final Fantasy XI or Dragon Quest X? I'd love nothing more than to have a Slime follow me around Eorzea!