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

[Cutriss]

Would it be possible to not only store macros on the game servers, but also execute them as well?

This would reduce the impact of lag for some players and also decrease the external bandwidth requirements for the game to operate. Instead of sending a string of packets to the server as the client processes each instruction, the client can just send a single instruction to the server, which looks up the stored macro by slot number, and executes it there. It would require some server hardware to manage this processing but this is something that could be offloaded fairly easily.

[DarkJehuty]

Will you be introducing a "Merit Point" system similar to FFXI at all?
What are your plans for Notorious Monsters?
Do you have any plans to reintroduce any areas from FFXI?
Do you have any plans to implement a 2 hour ability for all classes?

[AldoVonAlexandros]

I miss to hear voices from the NPC, are you planning to implement more voice acting? I would like to hear the primals Voices telling me that I am doomed

[Mcshiggs]

With the prices of free company housing finally dropping and leveling out, and you wanting to keep all the subscriptions you can, what will be the next overpriced content you introduce as a gil sink to keep removing gil from game so you can keep many of the RMTs subscribing but still say you are doing something about it?

[Jonasan999]

I have another idea to suggest you, Yoshi-P; since if the housing prices are dropping, if any Free Company still cannot afford to buy it in full prices, why not establish a housing rent-to-own or mortgage so FC could pay in like numbers of installment of payment so they can pay it every week or every day until they paid it all so housing would become their FC's own house. If they missed a payment, I have a idea of either suspend them from accessing FC housing or foreclosure them until they made a payment.

[Fawkes]

In story quests you had to attempt and fail to receive the echo buff. Will you have to attempt content to receive the new echo buff? You've said this new buff will increase over time, so if someone has never done a binding coil and starts several weeks after the echo is added, will they have no buff or a lower buff than other players or the full buff?

[Mcshiggs]

In your interview pushing ARR for the PS4 you stated this was a "story centric" game, given that the story content can be gone through in a small number of hours, I think I spent 3 hours on the story content from 2.1, and the rest of the game is gear treadmill, is your plan to continue with this, every three months giving us a few hours of what you say the game is centered around, and then a bunch of grinding until the next patch?

[Crzykido]

Is there way way for us to change our names?

[baijiazi]

Will we have more voice acting? ( at least for the main stories? )

[ThePersonMan]

Just some comfort details.

SPECIFIC HOTBAR LOCKS WITH SAME JOB SWITCHING

Is there any plans to allow players to lock hotbars into specific job sets ?

Currently you can't and it is quite restricting specifically for players with controllers and makes utility use kinda annoying.
DPS Monk --> Silence Monk



LINKSHELL UTILITY

Any plans to add a notification when someone from a certain linkshell is online ?