There is a live letter from the producers tomorrow, let's discuss announcements.

[RaideDuku]

Blitzball is being announced. If it isnt then its still a win due to new gold saucer content.

Dear god hopefully not Blitzball. Last thing we need is another Gold Saucer game that people will play for a week and then never touch again, except during Make it Rain Campaigns (and not even then if the pay out vs. time investment balance blows *cough*Verminion*cough*).

[Theodric]

Dear god hopefully not Blitzball. Last thing we need is another Gold Saucer game that people will play for a week and then never touch again, except during Make it Rain Campaigns (and not even then if the pay out vs. time investment balance blows *cough*Verminion*cough*).

Triple Triad has proven to be very successful. I'm sure Blitzball could be as well if done correctly.

[Iscah]

They talked about the new Gold Saucer event during the Fanfest live letter. Apparently it's a rail shooter using the Air Force planes.

[Shougun]

Triple Triad has proven to be very successful. I'm sure Blitzball could be as well if done correctly.

I feel part of it could be some well paced rewards as well.

Let's say 5 races a week gets you 50 end game tomes. Pretty sure there would be a significant uptick, at least 5 lol. Ideally just enough to bring people in taste it a bit for fun and then drop it just as well, because I think people could have fun sometimes running their chocobo around but there would be a lot of complaints / "that's pointless" if it was like 50 races a week.

[Theodric]

I feel part of it could be some well paced rewards as well.

Let's say 5 races a week gets you 50 end game tomes. Pretty sure there would be a significant uptick, at least 5 lol. Ideally just enough to bring people in taste it a bit for fun and then drop it just as well, because I think people could have fun sometimes running their chocobo around but there would be a lot of complaints / "that's pointless" if it was like 50 races a week.

That'd be pretty cool.

Triple Triad was extremely easy for me to get into. I think it's in a pretty good place, but Chocobo Racing and Lord of Verminion feel overly complicated for what they are. I ignore them for months, then whenever I convince myself to give them another go I remember how contrived the systems are.

[WellFooled]

They talked about the new Gold Saucer event during the Fanfest live letter. Apparently it's a rail shooter using the Air Force planes.

The GATE Air Force One and the mystery Gold Saucer content are two seperate additions, both coming with patch 4.5

Relevant Live Letter Slide

Summary of Live Letter

[Bourne_Endeavor]

As much as we'd love more info on that, I was getting the impression it won't be happening until 4.55 (or later) so I expect more info to be shared during the EU FanFest and the live letters regarding 4.55.

They said it was happening in 4.5. They just haven't specified whether it's in part one or two. Most are speculating it'll happen come January because they'll want the worlds settled before they implement the world visit system. Either way, I'd just really like an answer. There's no reason not to give us a date.

[Kitfox]

Not expecting anything, but hoping for:
-MCH QoL changes
-BRD crit nerf
-WHM buff
-AST nerf

[Mansion]

WHM buff

"Cure III buffed"

Trolling aside, I don't think we'll get much Job adjustment. Most raiding content is over, everything is fine for most jobs, and the ones that are too clunky will be fixed as a job rework in 5.0, but QoL in 4.5 couldn't be enough. Same for nerfing I guess.

[Krokov]

Blue Mage will be released on the week following 4.5's release (which is Jan 8 for 4.5).