FINAL FANTASY XIV Special Talk Session (translated)!!!

[Fensfield]

Good evening!

Some of you may have noticed that in the recent videos and screen shots we released, weapons that have different graphics depending on if you're in active/passive mode were only shown in their active mode state. Not to fear! These weapons are still in-development and will convert back to their passive mode graphic when put away, just like in the current version.

Sorry, I couldn't sleep well tonight if I didn't let you know. Now, back to more important conversations!
Like knee-high...

Thank goodness.

The way 'special' weapons behave is one of the few things I can confidently say I feel the team have done absolutely right up until now and I've no qualms about whatsoever. Their effects are cool and un-intrusive, and manifest when they'd be the most meaningful while staying quiet otherwise to make their activation all the better. Perfect compromise. It would have been horrid if we lost that as well.. Here's hoping it stays so.

... Also yeah, Sega better ruddy well have learned from the way they screwed up PSU what with PSO2 looming and all. >.>

[Duelle]

what Sega said was "gtfo foreigners" because of script kiddies hacking the servers instead of playing the damn game. They gave us a chance, but some people just have to ruin it for others.
here, it's a different situation. Most likely, the community will separate itself to a certain degree when people will be torn between going with their friends from different regions.

Now I'm curious. Is there an article on this or a discussion somewhere?

[Soukyuu]

I read about it at bumped.org, from what I remember it was a series of hacking incidents with NPC locations being modified, as well as random player position (leave your character idling, come back to see it drifting in space), all originating from a few non-jp accounts. They got banned but came back since it's f2p and all... so instead of fixing the exploits they just added a clause to their ToS that you can only play if you're a Japanese resident. Which basically means you can still play, but can be banned just because you don't have a JP IP if they feel like it.

So far SE has been handling bugs and exploits more gracefully, so I hope they will NOT take example from Seag'a behavior

[Bayohne]

Sorry for the delay, but we wanted to share some of the key PowerPoint slides that were presented in the video (since it's kinda hard to subtitle those while the presenters were talking!).

Maybe some of these will inspire questions for the LIVE letter?

[Arcell]

Wait, merchants and player housing on the same slide?! Don't tease us like that! D:

[Antanias]

Sorry for the delay, but we wanted to share some of the key PowerPoint slides that were presented in the video (since it's kinda hard to subtitle those while the presenters were talking!).

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Maybe some of these will inspire questions for the LIVE letter?

Tyvm for this photo Bay....I'm interested to see how Carbuncle tanks

[Bowen]

Sorry for the delay, but we wanted to share some of the key PowerPoint slides that were presented in the video (since it's kinda hard to subtitle those while the presenters were talking!).

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Maybe some of these will inspire questions for the LIVE letter?

Did I ever tell you that I love you?

[bobbygunz]

What does 'area-management by instances' mean?

[Fensfield]

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Ugh, they're not still considering that stupid-looking Ahriman mount, are they? More mounts is one (grudgingly permissible) thing, but when you get into stuff that just looks daft.. not that the goobue wasn't already pretty stupid. At least someone riding an Ahriman won't smother my entire screen and leave me unable to see where the hell I'm going as my party tries to infiltrate an imperial stronghold.

Still, some of that stuff does look interesting. 'Wonder what it's going on about with running one's own store. Not to mention hurrah Carbuncle o.o

[Anonymoose]

But ... but ... the drake mount... [saddest lalafell ever]

WHY WON'T YOU LET IT BE GREAT
;~;