New Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LVI

[Alleo]

[*]YOU WILL NO LONGER NEED A DOH PARTY FOR FC PROJECTS, can finally complete building projects solo.[/LIST]

Best patch in the world. Finally I dont have to force my friends to stand around while I built the stuff that I had gathered all by myself..

[Rannie]

So am I the only one thinking that I'm really happy that the patch is coming out mid Feb so I don't have to worry about which game to play when the 7 remake comes out?

[Kisshu]

So am I the only one thinking that I'm really happy that the patch is coming out mid Feb so I don't have to worry about which game to play when the 7 remake comes out?

I'm sure this was internally planned at SE as a lot of FFXIV players would have an interest in FFVII remake. Launching them on top of each other would be stupid. This gives us around ½-month for 5.2 and then when content is on farm FFVII will release.

[DumdogsWorld]

• Equipment is no longer destroyed when converting spiritbond into materia.
• Can meld materia without specific class reqs, only need to lv one DoH class to meld on all types of gear.

Oh great, another crafting-related nerf. Why don't they just put the final nail in the coffin already and remove crafting from the game entirely?

[Vnolan]

I'm not looking forward the ranking aspect of the restoration as everything seems to suggest it's going to just be a straight brainless grind of spamming collectables which entirely favors people using bots as I feared.

Without a doubt. Only way to prevent bots from compromising rankings is with a cap on trade-ins while involving heavy RNG during the craft, but then why even have rankings? It won't only be open to abuse by bots, but friends and family that are fine with sharing accounts.

[Rasikko]

Oh great, another crafting-related nerf. Why don't they just put the final nail in the coffin already and remove crafting from the game entirely?

Are you worried that they are planning to roll all crafting jobs into one big do-it-all job?

[Nandrolone]

Oh great, another crafting-related nerf. Why don't they just put the final nail in the coffin already and remove crafting from the game entirely?

They are probably going to make materia melding 100% guaranteed, and have data center cross visit. Which means markets will be the same across all data centers. Not even messing around. I think it’ll happen.

[Rasikko]

what? Did they change how savage work? I totally missed the live letter as I have work in the morning. D:

No, just the standard thing as outlined.

[Kytrin]

They are probably going to make materia melding 100% guaranteed, and have data center cross visit. Which means markets will be the same across all data centers. Not even messing around. I think it’ll happen.

I very seriously doubt that on the materia lol. I could maybe see them giving crafters some kind of melding buff eventually in the same spirit as desyth buffs, but I doubt they'll take away the rng variable of burning materia on overmelds away entirely.

As to the market and data centers... also highly doubtful. The entire reason they re-purposed the data centers was to help balance load issues and deal with login problems. They're not going to undo all of that by allowing folks to jump across data centers as well. And the markets will be fine. Only the truly dedicated seem to actually go bargain hunting across the data center for the most part. Otherwise there's been a little bit of market adjustment, but I haven't seen a great deal of change to Jenova's market in general.

[Gula]

mogmog57 does live translation on twitch

I wish OP edited this into their message, because this person is a blessing. No need to constantly swap between reddit and the stream, it was right there on stream.

And people don't seem to get that unless they have a script, a strict one, subs up to standard for their company will not be available. Like reactions to the chat or someone saying something out of left field. And translating a 14 hour stream with Ami would turn it into a 16 hour stream, not to mention how stilted it would become having her going between the like 10 people in the room when the core team said hello.

So am I the only one thinking that I'm really happy that the patch is coming out mid Feb so I don't have to worry about which game to play when the 7 remake comes out?

During E3, Yoshi P acknowledged VII and knows people will want to enjoy it. It's certainly intentional.