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

[mbncd]

What are your thoughts on cash shops and microtransactions, both for purely cosmetic stuff and Pay2Win consumables?

Disclaimer: I'm not in any way indicating my own preferences regarding these things. It's simply a hot topic that comes up a lot and I'd like to hear Yoshi's stance on these things once and for all.

[mbncd]

When the list of Discontinued Achievements was announced, I made sure to acquire everything on that list before the final save.

Now I would like to ask: What is the progress of the rest of the achievements that are being adjusted for ARR? Are there any notable changes to certain old achievements?

And for me personally, It'd be great to confirm that no further old achievements were discontinued after 1.0's end. Some people might be a little bit upset (both of them). :P

I'm wondering about this too. Particularly the crown for getting all of the old combative classes to 50, will that still be useable when ACN will be level 1? Or will there be an upgraded version of that achievement which will cover ACN and other classes to come out later in addition to the old achievement which will continue to only cover the 7 original combative classes?

[Nayrr]

When can we expect Dark Knight and Ninja to be playable jobs? Will the Dark Knight job actually branch off of Gladiator? If so, will that mean that Gladiator will also be able to wield two-handed swords?

[Loony_BoB]

I'm extremely interested in knowing how and when we will be picking servers. Could you show us an example of this process? A large number of my friends and I are really confused as to how we should go about our planning at the moment and we don't want all the information to come out with only a few days to organise ourselves.

- Will we be able to test multiple server regions before making our decision?
- Will we be able to transfer our characters in the future, if we feel we made the wrong choice?
- Will we be able to play with our friends from other worlds in instanced content (ie, can we specifically pick who we want to play with if we are all on at the same time)?
- Will there be any servers specifically labelled as 'international' for those of us from 1.0 servers to congregate on and avoid being split up?
- How are you planning to encourage people to play during the inevitable 'quiet hours' on regional servers?

All my questions are kind of based around that. I trust you guys to make a great game, I just want to play it with the friends I have made in 1.0 (from multiple regions of the world) and the rest of my friends from my site (who are also from around the world).

[JillyBean]

I'm extremely interested in knowing how and when we will be picking servers. Could you show us an example of this process? A large number of my friends and I are really confused as to how we should go about our planning at the moment and we don't want all the information to come out with only a few days to organise ourselves.

- Will we be able to test multiple server regions before making our decision?
- Will we be able to transfer our characters in the future, if we feel we made the wrong choice?
- Will we be able to play with our friends from other worlds in instanced content (ie, can we specifically pick who we want to play with if we are all on at the same time)?
- Will there be any servers specifically labelled as 'international' for those of us from 1.0 servers to congregate on and avoid being split up?
- How are you planning to encourage people to play during the inevitable 'quiet hours' on regional servers?

All my questions are kind of based around that. I trust you guys to make a great game, I just want to play it with the friends I have made in 1.0 (from multiple regions of the world) and the rest of my friends from my site (who are also from around the world).

In addition to my dear friend's excellent questions regarding the future of server selection in relation to our 1.0/Legacy characters:

• Is there a chance that servers will become "full" and we could be locked out of a server previously agreed upon among our friends, allowing well organized friends and linkshells to actually get separated, despite all planning efforts? What measures will be put in place to make sure that this will not happen?
  
  
• Will server selection take place in advance of launch (with an "application process") as is hinted in this thread? http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...orld-Transfers
  
  
• Will 1.0 or Legacy characters have a first server choice or some type of priority to select from the worlds/servers that are reserved for existing/imported characters (not "new character servers")?
  

[Tibian]

When is blue mage coming?

[Tibian]

What content is being discussed for the Gold Saucer area?

[Tibian]

To prevent the housing areas from being ghost towns, what activities or ideas do you have to promote the use of them?

[PLD_Danny1989]

I don't know if you have been asked this before, but will a statue of Louisoix be considered as a landmark of somekind somewhere in Eorzea for players to find with some flavour text to give more lore about him? This could also be extended to any kind of landmark, maybe have a little mini-cutscene detailing the significance of a person or a place?

[JillyBean]

Will the marriage quest be implement at launch, and if not at launch, how soon?