1.0 Path Companion! Please give us answers!

[BobbinT]

From the Third Live Letter;



They removed it temporarily only to realise chocobo companions were more suitable due to the lack of open world content, and made the removal permanent.
ARR changed direction with a HEAVY focus on instanced content vs. open world content, making it so that the NPCs in the story-line would support you instead of a path companion (healing/tanking/damage).

Sorry, could you reference the link please? The closest 3rd letter I find were actually dated from February 17, 2011:
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...bbc24abc29469f

At a glimpse, there's no mentioning about the path companion there. Not to mention that the live letter are 3 years old.

[Shioban]

Sorry, could you reference the link please? The closest 3rd letter I find were actually dated from February 17, 2011:
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...bbc24abc29469f

At a glimpse, there's no mentioning about the path companion there. Not to mention that the live letter are 3 years old.

You're looking at the wrong thing that's; "Letter from the Producer, III (02/17/2011)"

This is the "LIVE Letter from the Producer, III"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGgxS3Lkc4A


Almost all of these requests/ideas were actually implemented, such as DX11, Ninja/Double Barrel Gun Class/Currency Redenomination
http://www.finalfantasy.net/xiv/lett...e-episode-iii/

I've watched every live-letter since the second one that Yoshi-P did back in 1.0 and I'm struggling to find the exact live-letter that I'm also thinking of (there's quite a lot and seeing as it's not in english its very hard to find direct/quotations/references), where they discussed their actual reasoning behind using the chocobos instead of path companions, but it boiled down to "They no longer fit in the story, chocobos were easier to design/gear".

In a sense, the chocobos were the better open-world choice, considering they're quite 'robotic' and scripted to make the NPCs with you feel more believable and not just a robotic slave on a leash would taken a lot of work.

[BobbinT]

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lol If you had provided the original citation, I wouldn't wondering about this myself... ^^;

BTW, I already found the original text saying this rather than the long youtube you provided:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ry-(09-27-2012)

He did say though about the revival of path companion, although no specific yet. But hey, at least parley are indeed making returns in form of mini-games found inside inns.