FINAL FANTASY XIV Letter from the Producer LIVE Part III

Translated and up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnFLSH2jkjw

Looks like spell damage got nerfed alot. Conjurer took forever to kill that plant.

Makes me nervous for Black Mage/Thaumaturge.

so late -_-........they need to be quicker on this kind of stuff, especially if they want to go world wide. trust me if they're trying to sell more accounts, being late on stuff like this is unsatisfactory. People are used to getting info and information immediately, not 2 weeks laters.


you guys need to hire reinheart pronto.

i.love.the.opening.music.*drops death with nosebleed to the extrreeemmeee*

they mentioned RANGER!

hai! so wheres the translation exactly?

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Originally Posted by Jinrya-Geki

Looks like spell damage got nerfed alot. Conjurer took forever to kill that plant.

Makes me nervous for Black Mage/Thaumaturge.

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That was a pretty low conj, couldnt tell what lvl the plant was.. might have been a few lvls over and why it took longer. maybe not though

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Originally Posted by Anakhu

hai! so wheres the translation exactly?

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Press the CC button on YouTube.

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Originally Posted by neorei

so late -_-........they need to be quicker on this kind of stuff, especially if they want to go world wide. trust me if they're trying to sell more accounts, being late on stuff like this is unsatisfactory. People are used to getting info and information immediately, not 2 weeks laters.


you guys need to hire reinheart pronto.

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I bet you still watched and read it all.

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Originally Posted by Jinrya-Geki

Looks like spell damage got nerfed alot. Conjurer took forever to kill that plant.

Makes me nervous for Black Mage/Thaumaturge.

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Looks more like balancing to me. Low level Mages are insanely OP compared to Melee at low levels. Plus, it's just Whm. It's ok if the damage is low.

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Originally Posted by AmyNeudaiz

Looks more like balancing to me. Low level Mages are insanely OP compared to Melee at low levels. Plus, it's just Whm. It's ok if the damage is low.

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Yep, only THM can do 3-5 star leves at low levels, whereas a melee will get destroyed.

Inb4 "But that's how it supposed to be!"

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The market is basically revamped as well. As for retainers, it’s impossible to make all of them appear at once. Instead, we want to implement what’s called a market street and have players decide on what they want others to see.

It’ll work kind of like an instance, but you’ll be able to see them out in the open. Each retainer you see will look different. The search feature has also been revamped. Searching will take place through a board. We’ll probably be able to show everyone what it looks like during the beta phase.

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So we still have a crap load of retainers standing around? I thought we were getting away from this aweful system!

Who even uses them when there the search system anyway?

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A: You will have to create different gear sets for each class and, if you wish to use the same item in multiple gear sets, you’ll have to obtain multiple copies of the same item. We believe that this system, which players will see in the Alpha Test, will be easier for players to use and understand.

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So if you get an awesomely rare piece of gear then you want to use conveniently on multiple classes, tough! You need to get another one too? What if the item is unique so you can only hold one?

This sounds awful. I don't see how this is in any way making it easier for players to use. Surely, easier to use would be drag this item in to this set. If you want it in another set, drag it into there too.

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First, you'll need a group of four people. Then, you'll all need to join a Grand Company, whichever you prefer. Afterwards, you can form a Free Company under that Grand Company by visiting the Grand Company desk.

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You can only form Free Companies under the same Grand Company? What about all those linkshells that exist because of the lack of Free Companies from launch, all with existing members in all 3 Grand Companies. All those linkshells hoping to change to a Grand Company when they were finally released? These too end up disappointed again because they can't all join the same Free Company.

This also makes it sound like they're limited to only 4 people. I hope this is only bad wording.

I'm starting to get worried about A Realm Reborn.

hey, check this, only few paragraph below your last quote

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Also, if you have a solid group of 8 people and there’s another Free Company you’re friends with, since it’d be difficult to merge Free Companies, we’ve designed an alliance system that allows Free Companies to work together. You’ll be able to utilize a shared discussion area on the Lodestone, and company leaders can control who has permission to post. It’s quite a complex system.

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Originally Posted by Kafeen

So we still have a crap load of retainers standing around? I thought we were getting away from this aweful system!

Who even uses them when there the search system anyway?

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Plenty of people since it's how you search for +1 and/or melded gear with stuff that gets flooded out by low prices. Also no, it's not an awful system unless you're calling an AH an awful system as they're virtually the same system.

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This also makes it sound like they're limited to only 4 people. I hope this is only bad wording.

I'm starting to get worried about A Realm Reborn.

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You should have been worried about it a long time ago. Also no where does it say you're limited to 4 people, I don't know how you even read that wrong....it said nothing about a max just a minimum amount of people needed to start one.

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Originally Posted by Kafeen

What if the item is unique so you can only hold one?

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Put the first in your basaar for repair or in another gear set. It will be out of your inventory and you can get a second.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Put the first in your basaar for repair or in another gear set. It will be out of your inventory and you can get a second.

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That's assuming the bazaar system works the same, which it better not or there's going to be a lot of pissed off people lol.

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Originally Posted by Kafeen

You can only form Free Companies under the same Grand Company? What about all those linkshells that exist because of the lack of Free Companies from launch, all with existing members in all 3 Grand Companies. All those linkshells hoping to change to a Grand Company when they were finally released? These too end up disappointed again because they can't all join the same Free Company.

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Only the 4 founders need to be in the same GC. All the other people who join these 4 ( max. member for free company would be currently 100) can be in every GC they want. It shouldn't be difficult to find in a LS 4 members with the same GC.

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Originally Posted by Felis

Put the first in your basaar for repair or in another gear set. It will be out of your inventory and you can get a second.

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That's not really the point. Asking someone to get two of the same piece of Darklight gear just so they can easily use it between classes is ridiculous.

Also reorganizing or swapping/unequipping/re equpping gear will become an enormous hassle if you have a lot of unique gear that can't exist more than once in your inventory.

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Originally Posted by Kafeen

You can only form Free Companies under the same Grand Company? What about all those linkshells that exist because of the lack of Free Companies from launch, all with existing members in all 3 Grand Companies. All those linkshells hoping to change to a Grand Company when they were finally released? These too end up disappointed again because they can't all join the same Free Company.

This also makes it sound like they're limited to only 4 people. I hope this is only bad wording.

I'm starting to get worried about A Realm Reborn.

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You're misunderstanding, here's a dev post on the subject.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Good evening!

Ogre Okipuit here with a bit more information and clarification about Free Companies!

As you may have heard, you'll need at least 4 people to create a free company and of course you can add more over time. We haven't finalized the details yet, but we're planning on allowing at least 100 members to join an FC.

As for the relationship between grand companies and free companies:

• By requesting permission from a grand company, a free company can become a subsidiary of that grand company.
• Despite the fact that free companies are subsidiaries of grand companies, you do not need to be members from the same Grand Company in order to found or join an FC.

We also plan on making it possible to place your free company's crest on certain equipment.

Current LS features will be carried on to Free Companies and it will be possible to delegate leader rights. As for Linkshells, in A Realm Reborn they will be treated as chat channels.

Note: Sorry about the post misfire earlier! :(

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Originally Posted by Kafeen

So if you get an awesomely rare piece of gear then you want to use conveniently on multiple classes, tough! You need to get another one too? What if the item is unique so you can only hold one?

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The letter clearly states that you CAN use the same piece of gear you just have to do the switch manually or use a macro, you know, exactly like we already do. Gear sets are for specialized swaps for example I would have felt bracers with +pie on my BRD set and felt bracers with +STR on my WAR set or something, because macros do not take into account things like materia etc. get it?

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Originally Posted by Inaaca

That's not really the point. Asking someone to get two of the same piece of Darklight gear just so they can easily use it between classes is ridiculous.

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I know. But Kafeen asked how we can get 2 same u/u gear.

That we can only put an item in 1 gear set is not the best, but at least the normal equips would be out of the inventory. For u/u gears that we want on multiple classes but don't want to farm twice we can only let it in the inventory and equip it with macros outside the gear sets.
I hope we can equip gear sets with a command so we can use gear set command and equip command in one macro.

example:
/equip main "the weapon you want"
/gearset "your DL set"

with this your complete DL set would be outside your inventory and you need only all the weapons in your inventory.

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Originally Posted by Kafeen

So we still have a crap load of retainers standing around? I thought we were getting away from this aweful system!

Who even uses them when there the search system anyway?



So if you get an awesomely rare piece of gear then you want to use conveniently on multiple classes, tough! You need to get another one too? What if the item is unique so you can only hold one?

This sounds awful. I don't see how this is in any way making it easier for players to use. Surely, easier to use would be drag this item in to this set. If you want it in another set, drag it into there too.



You can only form Free Companies under the same Grand Company? What about all those linkshells that exist because of the lack of Free Companies from launch, all with existing members in all 3 Grand Companies. All those linkshells hoping to change to a Grand Company when they were finally released? These too end up disappointed again because they can't all join the same Free Company.

This also makes it sound like they're limited to only 4 people. I hope this is only bad wording.

I'm starting to get worried about A Realm Reborn.

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Basically everything you said was misinformed. Sometimes I wonder if people look for things to take out of context or even take things the wrong way intentionally to cause a big deal out of nothing.

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Originally Posted by AmyNeudaiz

Basically everything you said was misinformed. Sometimes I wonder if people look for things to take out of context or even take things the wrong way intentionally to cause a big deal out of nothing.

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Yep, FFXIV forums, you'll mainly see this when someone mentions other FF games around these parts.

A new ability called "Sprint". So we can run faster at the cost of TP.

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Originally Posted by Starlord

A new ability called "Sprint". So we can run faster at the cost of TP.

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More like bringing back Quick with a new name and costing TP. I don't mind it as long as I can use it cross class.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

Yep, FFXIV forums, you'll mainly see this when someone mentions other FF games around these parts.

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Basically, yeah.

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Originally Posted by AmyNeudaiz

More like bringing back Quick with a new name and costing TP. I don't mind it as long as I can use it cross class.



Basically, yeah.

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It seems to be a cross class ability, because when he showed off that ability he wasn't an archer. ( too busy reading text to see clearer what he was on at that time :P)

Sprint seems more like a universal skill, it's being used on every discipline.

A bit late but good to see.

I really like what they've done with gathering.

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The current plan is to increase the level cap with the next major update after launch.

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What's their definition of "next major update?". A patch that isn't lettered or an Expansion?

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Originally Posted by Starlord

What's their definition of "next major update?". A patch that isn't lettered or an Expansion?

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Expansion = Expansion.

Major update = when they introduced Al`Taieu content into XI versus when they added more missions to a storyline for example so something with a lot of substance and content is a major update in SE's definition.

I really like how Wada asked some probing questions, like at the end when he asked why one of the chars was running on the spot, YP didn't seem to answer the question though, is this going to be the norm at release? Would love some clarification.

Also I'm still not sure about gear sets and needing duplicate gear, that is just a step backwards to me. I know you can create macros to bypass this but meh, not liking that at all.

I know its pre alpha and we just won't know until we test it ourselves in beta.

I'm also a little bummed about the worlds being separated, I know YP says players can choose if they want to play on a JP/NA server etc, but we all know as well as he does deep down the majority of us will choose their region, and while I think its going to be better in the long run its still very sad that after all this time its going to change quite dramatically and that europe will get the short end of the stick as so many different languages, though that has never really bothered me but its always a struggle trying to convince people that you as a player is more than comfortable doing said content from sheer experience via the auto translator. the timezones are so distant its just not healthy for many players to not be playing in their primetime to get things done.

I do love these 90min live letters though, can't wait to see some character creation and the benchmarks!

It's possible, lots of post release MMOs have 'treadmill inertia' these days.

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Originally Posted by Elexia

It's possible, lots of post release MMOs have 'treadmill inertia' these days.

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This is what I'm worried about though, I really don't want SE to bow down to these western mmos, I'm sure its to do with lag on getting abilitys off or w/e if you get my drift.

Maybe I'm in the minority but this is why I play XI/XIV only, I'm very nit picky when it comes so simple things to the eye like character movements and realism, well I wouldn't even call it that, I think think its half assed work, I really hope they can find a work around or fine tune that treadmill stuff somehow.

I have played so many other mmos in the past and they all have the same woeful controls and character movements, maybe some of this stems to me starting out with a SE mmo and getting used to it but meh it looks awful. ; ;

I think it was a bug like the missing miqo'te tails

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Originally Posted by Felis

I think it was a bug like the missing miqo'te tails

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Not a bug, just an unfinished product.

As am I and you are definitely in the miniority based on any topics regarding XIV's graphics lol. I've played a ton of MMOs and none have paid attention to the small details as much as XI and XIV did. XIV has it's problems, but the fact your character can track something with both their eyes and head working separately is attention to detail very few offline games even utilize.

Starting off with SE's MMOs is likely why, but the fact WoW got popular is the other reason why every MMO is essentially the same, since prior to XI and WoW MMOs were trying to have their own identity..nowadays it's just "who can make the most money through subs."

Hell, AN will make a killing off people that simply want to have the commander ability and don't want to grind for it lol.

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Originally Posted by leomax

I really like how Wada asked some probing questions, like at the end when he asked why one of the chars was running on the spot, YP didn't seem to answer the question though, is this going to be the norm at release? Would love some clarification.

Also I'm still not sure about gear sets and needing duplicate gear, that is just a step backwards to me. I know you can create macros to bypass this but meh, not liking that at all.

I know its pre alpha and we just won't know until we test it ourselves in beta.

I'm also a little bummed about the worlds being separated, I know YP says players can choose if they want to play on a JP/NA server etc, but we all know as well as he does deep down the majority of us will choose their region, and while I think its going to be better in the long run its still very sad that after all this time its going to change quite dramatically and that europe will get the short end of the stick as so many different languages, though that has never really bothered me but its always a struggle trying to convince people that you as a player is more than comfortable doing said content from sheer experience via the auto translator. the timezones are so distant its just not healthy for many players to not be playing in their primetime to get things done.

I do love these 90min live letters though, can't wait to see some character creation and the benchmarks!

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He probably just let it slide because he have been saying throughout the video that the there were still errors and bugs in that version and even commented on why the tails were missing. Maybe he just thought "it's a unfinished game, I can't be arsed to comment on every little bug that comes up". I think that thing was due to lag or latency since it only affected other players and not his character. But I guess we'll see. :)

Have you read, that Ala Mhigo and Ishgard will be introduced with an expansion?

so there is hope for those who thought that ishgard got destroyed by dalamud ;)

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Originally Posted by Jinrya-Geki

Looks like spell damage got nerfed alot. Conjurer took forever to kill that plant.

Makes me nervous for Black Mage/Thaumaturge.

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they balance the new combat system and skills right now.. its alpha.... X.X

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Originally Posted by leomax

I have played so many other mmos in the past and they all have the same woeful controls and character movements, maybe some of this stems to me starting out with a SE mmo and getting used to it but meh it looks awful. ; ;

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well for me personally.. i LOVE the new casting animations.. its just great.

better than those static (almost non existing) casting animation right now.

Still watching it, I'm not very far in, but HOLY CRAP @ Gathering changes! About time we can just pick what we want to go for. No more stupid Hot & Cold mini-game either, omg I love it <3 This is so much better.

Can't wait to see how they've changed fishing. I like the crafting changes too for the most part, though it might become a lot harder to HQ higher level recipes with this change.

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Originally Posted by Jinrya-Geki

Looks like spell damage got nerfed alot. Conjurer took forever to kill that plant.

Makes me nervous for Black Mage/Thaumaturge.

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The plant interrupted him often.
And didn't people want longer fights? ^^