Special Letter from the Producer (featuring special guests!)

[Seraphe]

As of now it is possible to use the /slap emote!

[ShinigamiZero]

Bard will get nerfed. Please look forward to it.

[Doki]

In order to combat RMT activities, the special task force has decided to once again balance the economy. At 5:00 GMT today there will be a 18 hour maintenance. Once the worlds come back online, all characters will notice that that their gil has been reduced to %5 of it's original total.

We have also removed all gil drops from enemies, leves, logs, and most instanced content. The only method for earning gil will now be guildhests.

We believe this will be a crippling blow to most RMT companies, and that they may choose to abandon our game for greener pastures. Please look forward to it.

[EinherjarLucian]

Hello again, to all of you FFXIVers! I hope you've been enjoying the release of patch 2.2 as much as we've enjoyed working on it for you.

I hope you've had a chance to take a look at our new "Favours System", which should bring a depth to the story like no other MMORPG has seen! I know many of our female players have asked, "How can I get Thancred to notice me?" and "I wonder if Raubahn has a softer, gentler side." Good news! Our next developer's blog entry, coming in a few days, will have many more details. Please look forward to it!

Judging by the fantastic response we've had for the method of acquiring Atmas, we've decided to make a few changes I'm sure you'll find exciting:

• All drops and quests for the upcoming "Favours system" will involve random drops from FATEs and dungeons.
• Allagan Tomes of Mythology and Soldiery will also become random drops from the end boss of dungeons. We're still tuning the drop rate now, so please bear with us.
• In the upcoming patch 2.21, we plan to decrease the drop rates of Atmas from FATEs around the world. In addition, we will be tracking all of the time you spend participating in FATEs to ensure that you've spent at least 8 hours in FATE participation before awarding a new Atma.

Players have expressed excitement that they can spend so much time adventuring together in FATEs, so we're excited to bring these changes to you as soon as possible! I've just come from Hiroshi Minagawa's office, and he's assured me that we will have an in-game timer to display the time to the next Atma award available in time for expansion 3.0. Please look forward to it!


Well, the marketing people are giving me funny looks... I... maybe I've said too much? I'm very sorry, guys! I didn't want to hold back the good news for too long!

It's time for me to get back to work, but I'll see you next time!

[KaneBunce]

After 2.3 we are going to increase the price of a subscription to US$20/month for basic accounts & $25/month for Standard accounts. We no longer make any expansions.

We will improve servers so that server capacity & performance will never be an issue. We will hire additional developers so we can do 0.1 updates every month.

You will have get up to 10 Retainers via in game means. World Transfers will be free. Fantasias will be buyable in game with Grand Company Seals. The number of characters you can have per account will go up to 10 for Basic accounts & 50 for Standard accounts. We will add Veternan Rewards for every 30 days.

We will add a classe or job every 2 months & a race every 4 months. Every patch will have 2 Coil Turns, 1 Cystal Tower floor, 1 Hard Mode dungeon, 1 new dungeon, & either a Hard Mode or Extreme Mode Primal.

We are sure you will be okay with the new pricing given how much new content we will release.