Letter from the Producer Vi

[Abriael]

The way i see it, players will join a company and under go events, both large scale to do with 15ppl and small scale to do with 4ppl and u get points which u then change into rewards. Thats just my guess, we really wont know anything till its posted.

That's probably a realistic assumption. He did mention at a previous date that the companies we'll see at the beginning won't be player-run, but NPC based, and centered around the three cities. So I'm inclined to believe that each city will have it's own, with it's own events, and people will possibly have to chose an affiliation, But again, what he said is not very specific, so this is no more than a probable interpretation.

I wouldn't be one bit surprised if company activities were akin to the concept of public quests introduced by Warhammer Online.

[Neptune]

I feel bad that he probably posted this letter because of 2 idiots in the thread I posted about his safety. It's even more clear now that things are disrupted in Tokyo and not much work is going on. Some people can't get to work and there are fears about radiation exposure in Tokyo, which means people think they might get radiation poisoning if they leave home to go to work. Good job you 2.

[Shura]

Ya all we can do for now is make interpretations based on what very little info we have. global communities, global impact, endgame event, sense of danger for eorzea, large & small scale event and he said he would focus on gameplay with 4 and 8ppl parties.

i'm thinking of a mix of conquest, besieged and campaign from ffxi. What you do will have a global impact, guessing some kind of point system for the company u join, more ppl that complete events will raise the rating of said company. Planned campaign type attacks on aetheryte camps by beastman tribes or the empire. Destroy flag in beastman hideout or rescue npc prisoner similar to besieged. all events gives points which you can then trade in for gear, along with instanced quests to take place at said new locations or quests to accomplish when said attacks happen, such as kill enemy leader or collect certain amount of item that drops from said tripe but can get it during the raid only. If they do add new beastman locations then we know there will be a overlord type leader for each tribe, which can be HNMs.

These are the type of events that come to mind for ME when i read interviews about companies. but its all assumption till we get official news.

[Nephera]

To me grand companies sound like a possible few things

A) glorified guilds, possibly with things you can work towards as a guild (which is always nice)

B) Giant joinable factions that'll encourage a little competition and also give people a reason to band together outside of their linkshells (I'm thinking this is most likely)

[CelestialFurry]

I'm glad to hear everyone on the team is okay, physically at least. I know it's going to take a long time for them (and all the others affected by this tragedy) to be mentally and emotionally okay.

I'm also glad to hear that the game may not be down as long as I had originally anticipated. Working on new patches seems a little extreme, all things considered though. I'd be more than happy to just have the game back up by the end of the month (assuming of course that the power situation is stable.) We've been playing it incomplete and quirky for some time, there's no reason that we can't continue that for another month or two to allow everyone to get back on their feet.

I'm glad he took the time to let us know what is going on with the dev team, even with everything that is going on around them. I wish them the best of luck and as much time as they need to get their lives back in order.

[Rowyne]

I wish they'd still post these on the Lodestone top page. I think it should still be a definitive place for news, with the forums being a place for discussion.

My site's Lodestone RSS reader will get lonely.

Edit: This is now posted on the front of the Lodestone. Yay! =D

[Abriael]

I feel bad that he probably posted this letter because of 2 idiots in the thread I posted about his safety. It's even more clear now that things are disrupted in Tokyo and not much work is going on. Some people can't get to work and there are fears about radiation exposure in Tokyo, which means people think they might get radiation poisoning if they leave home to go to work. Good job you 2.

Actually I'm watching the NHK at basically every waking hour that I'm home, and they state quite clearly and multiple times that there's absolutely no danger of harmful radiation exposure in the tokyo metropolitan area or anywhere nearby. Same for every other reachable and reputable news source.
Tokyo and Fukushima are 150 miles apart.

Secondarily. He posted this producer letter simply because he's dedicated to his job (a quite common and admirable trait of the Japanese), and he wanted to let everyone know that the team is still at work. That's all there's to it, and if I were in your shoes, I would seriously avoid using this letter as an excuse to promote your personal feuds.

[TheVedis]

Nah I'm not going to go dig up quotes. If you have been playing since launch then you know this is not the first time companies have been mentioned. It's completely justified. Selective memory is doing you a disservice young Abigail.

obvious troll is obvious
cant even provide proof

[TheVedis]

Please don't name call. Here you go sweetheart: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com.../entry?e=19057

so wait, a random player in game posts a blog, and you call that a gospel of how SE is doing things straight from SEs mouth?
yeah, you really got your facts straight

[Nephera]

honestly i hope its new content for EVERYONE.

Edit: but at this point i dont even care, i will join a guild for the sake of something other to do than leves and punching goats. :V