Live producer letter - live translation

[Reinheart]

00:17:10
F: Q: alright moving to next question, this one is also from the forums; this one is regarding the housing. What kind of system will it be?
Y: First off for housing to have a house, it doesn’t mean just having a room alone, but this time having the outside with a yard and say for example for free company having a company emblem and putting up a tapestry outside the house with that emblem. Change the roof, change the material of the building structure, change the fence, and be able to have a farm in the yard to grow plants such as githar plant for Chocobo, or have chocobo stable to raise chocobo and such.

Also say a fight class takes down a boss monster and brings back the material and the crafter uses that to make trophy to display in the house. Once 2.0 starts we will updating this a lot so for specially for Gatherer and Crafters please look forward to this one.

F: Q: Next question, with the 2.0 will it be heavier with the new gaming engine do I need to change the computer specs and get something better?
Y: For reason to change the graphic engine this time, for a MMO you want to show as much players as possible and to do that having a better PC will allow you to do that and also for lower spec PC it will make it possible to lessen the amount of people visible or effects on/off to make it optimized for low spec pcs so it wont make it heavy load. It wont be heavy so please don’t worry.

F: Q: There are pictures in the back below the world clock; we didn't see at the last interview whats that?



Y: This time we went to 4 countries and to start the game globally we went around square-enix group in those countries from right France, Germany, Japan, UK and on this side (left side) you can see but wanted to put pictures from people we went for interviews. We want to show this much people are involved in 14 development.

00:22:00
F: Q: With 2.0 would like to be able to change race and gender and also be able to change character name.
Y: I guess for race since we have high demand from players I think it’s OK but Is it really ok for gender to change? Say for example Molbol here was a Roegadyn and then suddenly after 2.0 it’s OK if he became Miqote Male since we can think he went on a diet but if suddenly becoming Lalafel Female would you be shocked, you ok with that? for system it’s set up so you can change and I guess it’s up to the players choice if they want to change the gender as well.

OK the other part is about renaming the charter, the name being bit too long is a problem for UI; if we are going to make it where players can rename we may adjust the amount/length you can enter. But for naming, it’s registered in different parts so it’s not that easy to say yes right here; it depends on how much the demand is and if its possible technical wise; for this one please give us more time.

F: for update we can post in the forum
Y: yes
F: ok thanks.

F: Q: Hello, I really like Chocobo but when can we change gear for chocobo?
Y: Good it's here, dev's not here so I can show this today you guys ready? Was something I wanted go crazy on this one
F: if its regular work day the staff is going to go crazy
Y: You guys ready?



Y: Like this one, this one is Limsa



F: Uldah... (my comment....: it’s Gridania /slap Foxclon)


F: That one looks cool
F: Can I ask what are these?
Y: If I say everything I’m going to get scolded again so just think about... really important person on a mobile armor has a horn (he’s referencing to Gundam Char’s Red Zaku with horn lol)

F: Q: What is that crown?
Y: Crown?
F: I think they saw it so they are wondering
Y: oh this stuff?



A: oh there are these



Y: A: for reindeer just imagine for the crown please think of it as a reward from achievement; for something like this it’s pretty difficult but if you complete you can get stuff like that or other, we have other stuff ready so please look forward to 2.0

00:26:55
F: Q: Will there be mini game like Gold Saucer from FF7 or card game from FF8 Triple Triad
Y: A: First off for Gold Saucer/casino there is a plan for it which we didn’t include in the 2.0 documentsbut it will but some time ahead since housing has more priority but thinking of it as after that. Also since this is current generation casino we have to check rules on different countries law/rules to make sure it’s legal. So we do have a plan but it will be later on.

Also for the card game I made one before but it takes a lot of work to make it. To make a well balanced card game it’s possible spending cost but for MMORPG players think as rewards first so just being it a card game alone wont do it, we have to make sure both card game being fun and the reward being good to be planned out well. I’m really looking for a complete system so although I have Dev team that comes up to me asking they want to make card game ideas but if its something like this I’ll just say no, or just simply saying want to put in card game, I’m saying no. If they bring something great I’m planning to say OK

F: I see, thanks
F: Q: This question is voiced a lot in the NA forums about the Ifrit drops, this one is from someone defeating Ifrit 45 times and haven’t obtained the one they want; for that reason to continue fighting really affecting their motivation.
Y: yes... luck is... really....
Y: Can you see here?



F: I think maybe it’s barely visible
Y: We are looking into this, since primal battles will continue but really in 2.0 we have something like a greed pass but for now for rare drop items we’re looking into this. And we’re working hard to see if we can implement something by 1.20. And if it’s still really hard to get after trying so many times, we are also thinking of something where after trying amount of times... so we’re looking at both ways so once confirmed will let you know.

F: Q: OK want to go one more question; for players that pay subscription up till 2.0 will there be some kind of reward for them?
Y: There are event such as “7th umbral era” that will occur in the game so that’s one, and there will be achievement and reward you can get through the achievement. Also there maybe rewards you can only get through this time when we add contents related to battle with the empire. Also since we’ve finished the mount system we asked if we can include special mount for those players who stay. It’s kind of dangerous showing this but since it’s new info...
F: some dev staff in the back worried lol.
Y: hold on



F: It’s flying,
Y: yeah its flying and it’s Ahriman
F: It’s Ahriman
Y: yeah but doesn’t mean we’re giving Ahriman, we’re experimenting and testing different mounts for example.



Y: testing with wire-frame
F: so you will be able to ride different stuff
Y: yes, we’re looking into it, add stuff players like/love... love... like this guy here.



F: this silhouette.. Is that him?
Y: yeah it’s him
F: This?
Y: Looking to see if we can give something like this as a present for this time only.
F: I see



Y: Of course we’re going to make it so you can ride it in 2.0 but you can only get it this time.