Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part X! (General Questions)

[Maxthunder]

Q: Yoshi currently the open world dosent pose a challenge or threat, will you be adding a challenge or make the monsters pose a threat? With out challenge than what is the point if everything and everyone can go anywhere without any challenges or threat whats the point in even playing a game that offers just easy mode in the open world?

[Nielk]

Q:5 Will there be more systems added to ARR like hiring someone's character (mercenary)while their logged off?

I Definitely Like this idea and yeah hope they add a system of hiring someone to do a quest gathering Item for while ur logged off or not playing Like "Monster Hunter's 3 3DS/WIIU System works"

[Vensaval]

Is it possible for you to implement unique animations for the races as seen in version 1.0?

E.g. Different battle stances amongst different races playing the same class.

An example is seen here with a Female Elezen. Specifically, as a Pugilist, you can see that she has a drastically different pose in combat compared to what we have now.

[Altanas]

Will you consider adding more and meaningful "Stances" to all classes and jobs to allow players to specialise further and become more unique, and to adapt as needed for party purposes. It could open up more classes/job into tank stances or healer stances and help DF problems.

[Allyra]

Q1: Are there any plans to split up the servers to help with the lag/ISP issue? It seems like more and more people are resorting to VPN services because of so many hops being done, how do you feel about this becoming almost a requirement for a lot of your players?

Q2: Is Hamlet, or a Hamlet-style fight, ever going to come back? One thing I liked about 1.0 was it seems the devs wanted to find ways to get crafters out in the fields doing events, rather than just sitting in town. Has this idea been scrapped, or do you hope to have ways to do unique events for crafters in the future?

[PSxpert2011]

Q:6 When will you release BeastMaster/ how will it work?

[NeoAmon]

Is there going to be any changes done to Black Mages in 2.1?

[Little_Aussie_Mhigo]

Are we ever going to see a fight against the Elder Primal Bahamut?
Also are there going to be changes to BLM as someone already said

[Atrax80]

No one is running dungeons anymore. Everyone is grouping up to do fates all day long.
As a result, queuing for a dungeon in DF is completely pointless. Nobody is doing them!
On the rare occasion you do get a group, the other members are very much undergeared, wearing store bought stuff because they have been running fates to that point.
Further to that, you also get lots of people who have no idea how to use their class properly in dungeons since all they've ever done is fates.

Will you fix the XP system with fates to make them less lucrative? The biggest part of the game (dungeons and quests) are being completely ignored because of them.

[Starplayer]

No one is running dungeons anymore. Everyone is grouping up to do fates all day long.
As a result, queuing for a dungeon in DF is completely pointless. Nobody is doing them!
On the rare occasion you do get a group, the other members are very much undergeared, wearing store bought stuff because they have been running fates to that point.
Further to that, you also get lots of people who have no idea how to use their class properly in dungeons since all they've ever done is fates.

Will you fix the XP system with fates to make them less lucrative? The biggest part of the game (dungeons and quests) are being completely ignored because of them.

THIS! Please Squeenix, do this. I feel like FATE is completely subtracting from what's most fun in this game, and that's the feeling of accomplishment you get from leveling and watching your character evolve in a strategic group setting as they acquire new abilities. Another poster mentioned earlier, "why not just start at level 50 or allow a person to simply change something in the settings to make himself level 50? Might as well if actually getting to 50 is gonna be THIS fast.