Questions and Feedback on the Future of FINAL FANTASY XIV

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Question: Is Hiromichi Tanaka contributing to the FFXIV project?

Background: This a question of personal interest to me. I want to know what happened to him. If no other details could be spared on his role in the current project or SE on a whole, I wanted to at least know that he still had a job with SE. That is all. ...which reminds me, I haven't read his Twitter in a year, haha!

[Finuve]

Question: Is Hiromichi Tanaka contributing to the FFXIV project?

Background: This a question of personal interest to me. I want to know what happened to him. If no other details could be spared on his role in the current project or SE on a whole, I wanted to at least know that he still had a job with SE. That is all. ...which reminds me, I haven't read his Twitter in a year, haha!

hes producer back on XI again from what I hear, however not producer/directer anymore

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

hes producer back on XI again from what I hear, however not producer/directer anymore

Thank you! That eases this pang I've had. Now it's time to find a new question, mwee hee hee~~~!

[Dimi]

Will we have an options for multiple summons or will we have to pick one and only be able to summon that one summon? Is summoning going to be a group activity or can I do it myself?

[Misteyes]

1. While I approve of the vast and repetitive areas being broken apart, will the overall world remain as large? The vastness of XIV's world is one of the main draws to the game, for me. It made Eorzea feel like a world, rather than a facade.
2. Will we be paying the full subscription rate in the interim period while we wait for 2.0? I love the game and want to support it, but $15/month is more than I can justify.
3. I'm concerned about the "worldless" system, and its effects on the sense of community. Will the shards (Besaid, Gyshal, etc) actually be merged into a single game-world, or just for instances and "content finder"? If the latter, will we have the option to add friends cross-realm and bring them along to non-instanced areas in one shard or the other?

It's not a question, but I'm concerned about the idea of the "content finder" itself. A couple days after 1.18 hit and Toto-rak was launched, I started looking for a group for the dungeon. The party I found was not only welcoming of the fact that I hadn't done the dungeon before, but was even willing to guide me through the quests necessary to unlock the dungeon.

I had similar experiences in World of Warcraft (which I no longer play) before they launched their Dungeon Finder, but after it launched, the dungeon community has become one of the most hostile, self-serving groups of ****** mercenaries that I have ever seen, complaining that anyone who doesn't do enough damage, (or who isn't already fully decked out in gear better than the dungeon provides, let alone demands) is "wasting their time" by making the run go slower. I've even seen some players run extortion rackets (tanks who say "Pay me 75 gold or I'm going to AFK" once the run starts, for example) out of the system.

Please don't do this. Give us a cross-shard party search feature that lets people find one-another, but make it still force us to talk to each other to form the party. Do not assign us to parties with total strangers.

[AlexiaArchos]

I havent posted before, but i had a question about the payments. I'm playing with a friend that i gave my Buddy Pass when the game was lauched and was wondering if for that person we will need to buy a new copy of the game, like it was originaly supposed to be when the free trial was over, or will the people that are currently playing on a buddy pass registration number wont need to get a new copy and just continue to play?

[Fensfield]

Hm.. here's one more. I mean I put it in Website Feedback and all but, hey, questions and such right?

Will we be able to change our avatar on the Lodestone (and its associated API) at some point?

As-is, it seems to be stuck to our character, in their underthings, with whatever little modification was applied to it last by an event - so in Forra's case, as you can see from the signature, scanties, Gridanian salute, Gridanian background.

Thank you! That eases this pang I've had. Now it's time to find a new question, mwee hee hee~~~!

Actually, I believe his attention is somewhat split. I believe that's true about him being on FF XI again now as producer but I read somewhere he still isn't wholly uninvolved with Final Fantasy XIV.

[Betelgeuzah]

Actually, I believe his attention is somewhat split. I believe that's true about him being on FF XI again now as producer but I read somewhere he still isn't wholly uninvolved with Final Fantasy XIV.

That is true. Hiromichi Tanaka is the game's Online Business Management Divisions Corporate Executive. It says so in the credits.

In addition to that, he is still leading the Tokyo branches Development Division 3 as far as I know. Both XIV and XI are developed in said division.

The man can't lead a game project, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have valuable assets the company (and the game) can use.