Questions and Feedback on the Future of FINAL FANTASY XIV

[Griss]

In a recent interview you mentioned that primals like Ifrit would be a one shot summon for a free company and that only one group would have that ability at a given time. My question will be in two parts.

1) Are you planing on adding in lesser primals or spirits with lower or no restrictions? It seems to me that summoner as a class/job would be very limited in practicality if all summons had the stipulation of one per server and only one call per user.

2) Say you are the summoner for a free company that has won the right to call ifrit. What kind of a situation would you deem worthy of calling for the lord of fire for?

[Ramsey]

In regards to summoning primals, you brought up the idea of "summoning cards," how will you prevent end game players from feeling as if though they need these cards to overcome certain challenges, and create an environment where end game companies need to farm them in order to progress?

Final Fantasy games often revolved around a strategy of using at least 1 summon per boss fight, have you considered simply having strict summoning requirements?

[DemonFury]

Why can't the classes each be fully balanced for all new content rather than there always being one class better than another clan for certain content ? For Example "Archer's in the Ifrit battle are virtually useless since they do not have a single weapon skill that does any amount of considerable damage to him at all".

[SionDurant]

Mr. Yoshida,

Let me preface this by saying, you are an inspiration in many ways. Having handled the adversity of angry customers in the face of overwhelming odds takes a great deal of courage, and the will to stomach that presents the character you have; as well as the company's in which you work.

That aside, why is it that Final Fantasy XIV is not Final Fantasy? Your vision I think is one that is going to take it to that level, but will we see our favorite characters be emulated in our own? Is this Seventh Umbral Era setting the stone for a more heroic tale to be written for the players?

I see a lot of beloved characters of FFT named, which gives me a warm feeling inside; I always have felt that FFT was something Square Enix should have taken into serious consideration as a framework for an MMORPG, in the same method in which Warcraft was inflated to become World of Warcraft, now I realize that this would be somewhat a clash in the tradition of Final Fantasy as being an ever evolving set of short stories with similar themes but it would I believe be far more successful.

- Sion Durant

[Paintedblack]

Who is the poor businessman who decided November was the right time to start charging for this atrocity of a Final Fatasy title and will he be fired once this game officially fails or just reassigned like the former project lead?

[Lienn]

Mr. Yoshida,

Let me preface this by saying, you are an inspiration in many ways. Having handled the adversity of angry customers in the face of overwhelming odds takes a great deal of courage, and the will to stomach that presents the character you have; as well as the company's in which you work.

That aside, why is it that Final Fantasy XIV is not Final Fantasy? Your vision I think is one that is going to take it to that level, but will we see our favorite characters be emulated in our own? Is this Seventh Umbral Era setting the stone for a more heroic tale to be written for the players?

I see a lot of beloved characters of FFT named, which gives me a warm feeling inside; I always have felt that FFT was something Square Enix should have taken into serious consideration as a framework for an MMORPG, in the same method in which Warcraft was inflated to become World of Warcraft, now I realize that this would be somewhat a clash in the tradition of Final Fantasy as being an ever evolving set of short stories with similar themes but it would I believe be far more successful.

- Sion Durant

Absolutely agree! The original FFXIV actually was based on FFT, not only regarding mechanics but even regarding lore, concept arts and stuff.

I also have FFT series (yes, i also loved FFTA and FFTA2) as some of my fav FFs and do would love seeing a MMORPG FF bringing the Ivalice Alliance seal. Who knows...maybe if the original FFXIV make a return as spin-off they can also add Ivalice Alliance seal and bring all lore related to it with it! ^^

Who is the poor businessman who decided November was the right time to start charging for this atrocity of a Final Fatasy title and will he be fired once this game officially fails or just reassigned like the former project lead?

I believe this is a internal decision *cough*Wada*cough*, just like the premature release last year. FFXIV history is already plenty of wrong decisions in the worst time possible...so charging now would be just another one. Still, i have hopes that the billing isn't set in stone still since we don't have an official date for it to start. I do think they might be pondering the pros and cons of it based on current feedback...after all the subscription fee would turn to be inadequate if they can't reach a minimum amount of return.

Anyway...it's easier Yoshida take responsability for this decision (it's part of his role as director) and step back, just like Tanaka did after release failure, than they blaming SE CEO for this...especially because the CEO is directly related to shareholders so pointing to CEO would have worldwide impact to company credibility.

[Fieros]

What do these boxes represent?


I think they are 150 inventory and bottom left is equipped gear.

[TheBoxNinja]

So first, i wanna say i love this game. i always have fun when i log in and play. my only question is...

Will we ever get to color our chocobo's? i would love to be able to get some way to make my chocobo stand out to others.

[Deli]

Since you guys are working on the character's details, Can Roegadyns have our tails back?

[Reinheart]

The concept art makes me thing that the shroud is going to get very small. I like the size of the zones and I'm worrying that with change it will be smaller. the vast landscape is what makes running about outside exciting!

Just FYI those concept art maps are only zones/section of the map we have now (East/West/North/South/Central/etc...); instead of keeping the seamless world we have now they are going to break it up into smaller zones/maps like FFXI did with area change/loading to next maps and while they do that they will make each zones more fantasy like with at least 3 land marks within those areas

Since you guys are working on the character's details, Can Roegadyns have our tails back?

Then they wont be called Roegadyns but Galka lol