Letter from the Producer, XVII (09/01/2011)

[Holland]

It's true that I've missed this bit of info when it was said before.

Maybe I was just taking for granted what airship rides as a feature means that I didn't even think about it.
Anyway I hope they truly keep on working on them to have some gameplay too. I agree that we don't need another screensaver-ferry ride.

No matter how I look at it as this is the first time the truth about them dawn on me I can't help but feel really disappointed about the way they decided to implement them.

I love airships especially in FF series. Even the design of the XIV ones looks cool.

Well, thankfully I edited that real quick =p

I must say I dont see the new airship ride coming before the area redesign. Surely we will be able to see the world "as it is" while flying and that cant happen until they change everything up or else they would be working double.

I do hope they add something like a random chance of being attacked by Garleans while we ride in the meantime by 1.20 or 1.21, instead of the instant warp we would see another cutscene right after showing imperials boarding the ship!, maybe another way of getting deaspected crystals.

[Seif]

Well, thankfully I edited that real quick =p

I must say I dont see the new airship ride coming before the area redesign. Surely we will be able to see the world "as it is" while flying and that cant happen until they change everything up or else they would be working double.

I do hope they add something like a random chance of being attacked by Garleans while we ride in the meantime by 1.20 or 1.21, instead of the instant warp we would see another cutscene right after showing imperials boarding the ship!, maybe another way of getting deaspected crystals.

I gotta admit you have a point there.

The best part of the ferry/airship rides for me in XI was the fact that you could watch at the scenery while crafting on the ship. No point of making those graphics for nothing.