Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXXVII! (Art Director Minagawa)

Greetings, everyone!
We're pleased to announce the next Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part XXXVII! This next Live Letter will take place on Saturday, July 15, 2017 at 3:00 a.m. (PDT) / 10:00 (GMT) / 11:00 (BST)!
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Can he direct the art team to make the textures on armor/walls/floors/etc to be more high res? Its 2017 and yet some parts of this game look like its still 1997.

Please can you re-work the textures for the Premium Stuffed Moogle housing item. If I had known that it was going to have quite possibly the worst texture in the entire game applied to it I would never have bought it. I think if you are selling items you should ensure they are of better quality than free in-game items. It is hardly a PREMIUM item; it's just BIG!!

In FFXI, users had several different backgrounds they could choose from for their UI windows. Do you think it would be possible to have something like that in FFXIV to where we as users could have some choices as to the background of our UI windows?

Any comment regarding the issues that PS4 players expressed with the launch of 4.0, and how their System Display size became either uncomfortably small or ridiculously oversized?

Some of the new Job Gauge UIs are pretty obvious and straight-forward in terms of purpose and design inspiration (ie. Bard gets a song-scroll to track the duration of its songs), but others are a bit more out-there. Specifically, the Black Mage Job Gauge has something of a clock-like appearance. Was there any particular inspiration or reasoning behind this?

I really love the Shisui gear. Would it be possible to get some more "dressy" armors and such (kimono/yukata/etc) from dungeon gear?

If you had creative control over an Expansion, what type of areas would you want to create?

I don't have a question per se, but as a player who has vision issues, thank you for doing so much to make things easier to see and navigate in game. It is a huge help, and not something that's seen very often in MMOs. I appreciate it very much!

Greetings Hiroshi Minagawa & the rest of the FFXIV team o/

Thank you for your continued fantastic and hard work!

My Question for you: Stormblood was a fantastic expansion from both a narrative and visual perspective, however as the years pass by it has become increasingly evident that the fidelity of the game is starting to show some age. Is there any plans going forward to optimize overall fidelity, via engine upgrades, HD texture packs, graphic updates or other such means?

Do you have any plans to divide the player buff and debuff bar into two separate bars so that they may be placed independently of each other?

Do you have any plans to give players more options with the appearance of the party frames? Such as maybe using alliance frames for party frames, using a horizontal party frame, or splitting the party frame into two groups of four that can be placed side by side.

What future plans to do you have for job gauges? Will you add things like procs to them or allow players to rotate them?

Would it be possible to add an effect onto the scholar ui for when we get a quick aetherflow proc?

Any plans to release higher res textures?

Is it a possibility to get the Dark Knight's original aura of Darkside, or a way to add more visual flair to it? I still do not like only having the red lines and since the Heavensward Job Action trailer it always felt like something was missing from it.

When turning in items at our Grand Companies for seals, would it be possible to have a Turn All In button? It is frustrating having to click 100 times on each individual item to turn in.

Could we get a Pass on all items for dungeon loot? This way, if we don't care for anything, we just click a button and forget about the loot that drops.

1. Can the texture team to improve the graphics?
2. Can they design more Ala Mhigo and Kugane/Doman civilian outfits for players to wear them?

Can Garlean equipment from Yanxia: Choko #55, Uwagi #55, Tekko #55 etc be dyeable?

Machinist is sitting in a sort of weird place in that it lost Party Utility (physical/magical damage down) and is also lowest DPS currently. I understand the rotation is one of the more complex ones, but the trade off for losing utility should balance out in personal dps making them an asset rather than an anchor. In the eyes of the devs, what role is MCH intended to fill, and is it currently operating as intended?

What happened with the Azim Steppe horses? Please consider revisiting them as it's extremely jarring.

Anyway in the possible future for a future expansion have us Explore old area's like from 1.0 for those who did not get a chance to play. Also its a suggestion but considering there are alot of design assets from FF:XI any chance in a Collab between the 2 games like I dunno Exploring a Promyvion or similar areas?

Also Are you guys just hinting that Blue Mage will be the next job released? Because I thought it was weird when you get that Red Mage Minion that letter was enclosed with it. If so I think this would be very cool even for a 4.5 release if possible because it would still be in line with the classic Red vs Blue thing they have going on in the story right now.

and I do have one question on Bard. Why in the world did you get rid of their Flamming Arrow?

A request about Chocobo-feet boots.

Please allow us to wear these boots. These are the boots currently on the Gold Saucer Chocobokeep.

I've been asking this question for a while now, and shortly before the release of Stormblood an answer was given that the art team would get the request passed on. I would like to ask again to allow us to gain these boots. We've got the chocobo suit for levelling our companions. We can get two different masks that fit. But there's no proper footwear to match. Even the NPC in the last Sylph beast tribe quest got to wear a pair of clawed boots.

And while I am on the subject of the chocobo suit. Is there any way we could request the suit to hide a characters' tail?
Right now, if you're a Miqo'te specifically, it looks like you're doing something rather very inappropriate when you wear the full-body chocobosuit.

It's rather unfortunate.

Greetings Hiroshi Minagawa!
I was wondering if it is possible to implement a player/NPC name size change into the UI customization? I have included a screenshot as an example, everything is at the smallest possible size. The names are huge on my screen (I play on a large TV monitor) and the only way the size changes is with a resolution change. Thank you for your hard work!

http://i66.tinypic.com/6zpkzm.png

Why are so many armors lookalike standard? It would be very intresting to get more individual armors between the classes and especially different styles.

It would be helpful if for example bards or tanks could use skins from healers to project them onto their armor. I often find skins that look so kind and would fit perfekt to a bard top but its from healers. and vice versa.

Can we receive the ability to turn the display of job gauges on/off, like the rest of the UI elements?

I use a macro to turn off everything but the map, time, and chat while I'm out of battle to enjoy how the scenery looks, but cannot turn off the job gauge, which takes up a fairly large portion of the screen for some jobs.

The map design in Stormblood is really fantastic! Can you tell us how you went about designing them compared to Heavensward?

Would you consider adding an option when selecting (right-clicking) a specific crafting item that would display a list of recipes the selected item is used for?

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Could we get a Pass on all items for dungeon loot? This way, if we don't care for anything, we just click a button and forget about the loot that drops.

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I Completely agree with this! Many other MMORPG's on the market have this ability and have had it for Many years.

Would you consider adding a display feature to the summoning bell menu where we select from our list of retainers that would tell us the ratio of items (Beside the Retainers name) they currently hold compared to the max limit, please?

Much like an Internet Browser has, can we get a back button function for the Market board, please, along with a list of most recent searches and a sorting function for stats on all items they relate too, especially food.

The artwork for the game is beautiful and so are most of the wearable gear. However, my husband and I both agree on one little issue. We both are of the opinion that Most of the Male Caster Gear are overly feminine. Most of the gear though looks either cute or overly sexualized on the female race. On the male race they are terrible. The men look like they are either cross dressers or androgynous.

And though we may have a population who prefers to appear as such, we have a population who are not. Is there anyway to address the attire to have a more male appearance for the male characters that are out there?

Can you improve the Bard's Job Gauge to show when Empyreal Arrow is ready and also when Bloodletter is ready regardless of being under the effect of Mage's Ballad or not?

The flash that happens on the Bard's Job Gauge when Mage's Ballad's effect trigger is very unnoticeable. Can you make it a bit more noticeable, please?

REGARDING DRAGOON. There needs to be changes to Dragoon. I know it was stated that Dragoon numbers are low because of how much utility they bring, but I'd also like to point out that Ninja's Trick Attack offers more utility than anything Dragoon brings to the table and currently does more damage. As it stands, Dragoon is the most difficult melee to play but the lowest dps of the melee. The payout does not justify the amount of effort you have to put in. None of us Dragoons signed up to be a melee support. Dragoon needs fixed. Are there any plans to put Dragoon in line with the other dps?

It would be possible in the future to allow us to change the order of our Linkshells?

Hi and Thank you for bring us FFxiv, we can expect in a future more expansions? Also more jobs or classes?

You guys designed a level 1 Kirimu coat and Arachne Robe that all jobs and classes get to enjoy. Any plans to offer the same treatment for the rest of the sets at that ilvl such as the Arachne Bolero?