Friendly Reminder: Live Letter XXXV (April 28th) Q&A!

[KrytosFallaran]

Please no more parser questions Yoshi P looked really aggravated when he was asked that question during the last Q and A

[LaylaTsarra]

They should discard questions they've already answered in previous live letters. No need to repeat the answers.

[KrytosFallaran]

They should discard questions they've already answered in previous live letters. No need to repeat the answers.

They should but they get asked anyway and I bang my head on the table every time they're asked

[Knahli]

Lets try get some real questions in there this time yeah?

And keep balmung away from them, last thing we need is them hijacking another Q&A to spam questions about glamour, dancers, viera, long hair and bunny outfit for men.

Myself, i'd love some lore questions, especially in regards to the imperials.

This attitude/"joke" is by far more incessant, tired and annoying than the questions that keep getting asked on here.

Tl;dr
The majority of the glamour/race/emote/animations questions are from other servers by a clear margin.

But by all means take the easy route.

[Shougun]

This attitude/"joke" is by far more incessant, tired and annoying than the questions that keep getting asked on here.

Tl;dr
The majority of the glamour/race/emote/animations questions are from other servers by a clear margin.

But by all means take the easy route.

People like to be tribal, love to hate together - helps feel organized and easily superior, all my problems are not because of me but because of someone else and I know I'm right because others share this idea too (and by attacking them I'm in the right, because I've justified my assault!). Also agree that it's not /all because of Balmung/ I remember hanging out in the streams and every question was "BALMUNG!! OMG!!" even though only one of the like 10 were actually from Balmung.

Although I'm certain a lot of people do it purely for the fun and do not believe what they're saying.

Like me and the Limsan's. Their starting zone is quite nice, and the colors are great but because of the accent some of their NPC have I like to joke they're all dull thieves living in a trash heap. (Of course being from Ul'dah I get it back just as strong lol). Stinky fish grubbers. :3

[NaesakiAshwell]

Doesn't the whole Balmung stimga just stem from a single Live letter / Gaming event Q&A from very long ago were most of the questions were from them? And ever since then everyone just auto-blames Balmung due to it being the most populous server and therefore people assume you have the biggest voice and sway with SE and thus irrational hatred and leaps in logic ensue from the rest of the playerbase?

[Vexander]

Since its about Stormblood I can't think of many questions I'd want to ask that wouldn't be answered in the game itself. Most other questions I'd like answered have already been answered to exhaustion.

I guess if I had to ask one... What, 'Original,' content to the Final Fantasy franchise would they have liked to have included in Stormblood, but were unable to make possible for 4.0's launch. Kind of tired about endless questions about Blitzball, swimming, etc... Wouldn't mind seeing what they'd have liked to of added.

Meh, who am I kidding? What I'm dying to ask is the rationale behind making Red Mage something native to Ala Mhigo (Gyr Abania, but I'm assuming Ala Mhigo pretty much ruled all of that) rather than Sharlayan, given, you know... logic.

[NaesakiAshwell]

Meh, who am I kidding? What I'm dying to ask is the rationale behind making Red Mage something native to Ala Mhigo (Gyr Abania, but I'm assuming Ala Mhigo pretty much ruled all of that) rather than Sharlayan, given, you know... logic.

Have you even read the lore for them on the site since it was updated? Or even remotely paid attention to the AST storyline with what the higher echelon's of Sharlyan society think of sharing their knowledge with the 'savages' of Eorzea?

There is plenty of logic and reasoning for it. You however, have seemingly chose to ignore it.

The overview on the website about RDM below. http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/stormblood/system/#newjob

"On the eastern edge of Abalathia's Spine lies the mountainous region of Gyr Abania.

It is in these elevated lands that people took shelter, when a burning star guided them away from the Sixth Umbral Calamity's treacherous floodwaters. The survivors gathered from near and far, and amongst them were refugees of the sorcerous cities of Mhach and Amdapor.

These sworn enemies buried their history for the sake of the future, and cast aside their vestments of black and white. Upon the remnants of their arts a new discipline was built, and the first red mages stepped forward with rapiers in hand to fight back against the rising tides of destruction."

[Vexander]

Have you even read the lore for them on the site since it was updated? Or even remotely paid attention to the AST storyline with what the higher echelon's of Sharlyan society think of sharing their knowledge with the 'savages' of Eorzea?

Yes, and yes again. As an interesting note to the AST storyline, there are Sharlayans who -oppose- this philosophy of keeping knowledge out of the hands of others. Levava is but one such example, the Scions of the Seventh Dawn being something of another. Even the Sons of Saint Coinach aren't the sort to shy away from collaboration just because it means what they've learned would become known by others, and they even have an active goal in -spreading- the knowledge they've gleaned in order to rekindle the lost art of Summoning, rather than hoarding that knowledge, taking it home, and rekindling it there.

The idea of a group of Red Mages joining this movement against the isolationists would've meshed well with existing examples of small populations of Sharlayans defying that mindset.

Instead, Red Mages will be a different group of Mhach and Amdapor survivors who created a class during a time everyone from the elementals to the baker next door were lynching even learned persons because they -might- know magic. The Witch Hunts which followed the Flood were a key point in the narrative that is now being subverted.

The optimist in me wants to think its being subverted as a narrative tool to show us how powerful Red Mages are. The Worf Effect, if you will. These Witch Hunts had no effect on Red Mages. Too OP.
The pessimist in me thinks putting Red Mages in Gyr Abania is SE's way of going, "See? This expansion isn't JUST about Doma! We're giving Ala Mhigo a new class too! See? Totally fair and even."

In short, yes, I understand the lore. That doesn't mean my -opinion- on it is favorable, or that I'm not curious why SE chose to pass up the obvious route to essentially go back on existing lore. I would not mind learning their rationality behind this.

[VeliusVire]

Personally, it bothers me when people knowingly ask questions that will definitely /NOT/ get answered. For example, he explicitly stated prior that New/Old Job-related topics would be expanded upon, earliest, in May, yet there was at least FOUR people that are asking for tooltips and the like on the official thread. It kills me, stop wasting this man's time with questions we already have answers for, or the answers that are blatantly obvious.