Ask Your Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part VII!

[LlenCoram]

I'm not sure if this was answered before, But will marriage be implemented at some point? and if so will the players who do choose to get married share the same housing and furnishings? or be able to craft purchase new special furnishings & decorations? (i.e double sized beds or other couple specific furnishings)

sorry if this question was already answered its something my wife and i were really curious about since the announcement of player housing.

Marriage is already confirmed. Was in one of the early live letters I think, around when Alpha started.

[Req]

Since this wasn't answered in this last letter I will ask it again.


I am wondering if there will be any "Gated" content in FFXIV. I would like areas that you actually have to work to get into, as well as all the content that that area includes. I understand that accessibility is key and, but I also think that it is important to maintain a level of accomplishment when you are playing a game.

The closest thing we really had to this type of content in 1.0 was Ifrit extreme and Darnus hard, but those were just revamped bosses. I think Aurum Veil had the requirement of doing Darkhold like one time to enter, but that was it, and among those, Ifrit Extreme was the only one that posed any type of challenge to get to.

I would like entire areas in FFXIV where we have to work to get to them. With the way they are doing zones and making them look incredible, it will just make it that much sweeter the first time we step foot in a new zone if there was a large hurdle you had to over come to get into it. The type of zone that when you talk about it to a player that is newer to the game they will get excited about their own journey to get there.

[Req]

You mentioned in your last letter that they are altering the battle system for phase 3. Since this seems to be the biggest gripe in many of the reviews that have been posted of the beta I am wondering how it is being altered.

[Amsai]

When do we get Ninja?!!

[Amsai]

Once and for all, will War be a major tank, a major DPS, or will it be able to do both primary DPS and be a primary tank?

[Amsai]

I prefer the old 1.0 gamepad setup. Will I be able to use it at launch? After playing FFXI and FFXIV so long, the cross hotbar just confuses me.

[elreed]

Explain how the job and class systems work exactly, especially for jobs that may branch from a same class, like gladiator being able to switch to Dark Knight or Paladin, do you have a different level system planned or we'll have our new job already at 50 when unlocked?

Are we going to get a new class for every new job we get?

Do you have plans for advance jobs that branch from jobs?

[OrionInerghem]

Will addons be as accessible as other games at release? and at what point are you thinking of adding flying & swimming

thanks!

[Andreas-Lycaeus]

Will there be consideration for 1.0 players who want to start on a fresh server? e.g. being able to play the exclusive story content without transferring levels/gil/items?
I've heard the Legacy mark will be account based but it would be strange to have the mark and not be recognised by NPCs as a returning player.

And will we be seeing the return of Dhalmel in A Realm Reborn?

[Gallerik_Winstone]

Will performance and optimizations improve for Phase 3 and after? My rig could play FFXIV 1.0 maxed out at 60FPS (vertical Sync) outside and 40 in cities, yet in a Realm reborn even on mid settings i struggle to run on 60fps and my GPU and CPU dont seem to be utilized, Considering before the remake it was mentioned that performance for those who played 1.0 would be similar if not slightly better?