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

[Velo_Vandore]

I've found most groups in the duty finder prefer to skip cutscenes and also optional area's / trash mobs / chests. I understand that they are interested in progressing quickly but I don't enjoy playing that way and have found it very difficult to get a group together for a relaxed run some days, even with my free company and a linkshell dedicated to relaxed runs.

I have tried the party finder which I feel is a great tool, but it seems unfortunately casual players are not generally making use of it so any "slow and easy", "story focused", "newcomers welcome" party I try to organize gets little to no attention. Will we see any of these playstyle preferences appear on the duty finder? Particularly, I would love to see an option on the duty finder to specify whether I will want to watch cutscenes, as I often reach new content by the time it's being farmed heavily already.

[Velo_Vandore]

I've found most groups in the duty finder prefer to skip cutscenes and also optional area's / trash mobs / chests. I understand that they are interested in progressing quickly but I don't enjoy playing that way and have found it very difficult to get a group together for a relaxed run some days, even with my free company and a linkshell dedicated to relaxed runs.

I have tried the party finder which I feel is a great tool, but it seems unfortunately casual players are not generally making use of it so any "slow and easy", "story focused", "newcomers welcome" party I try to organize gets little to no attention. Will we see any of these playstyle preferences appear on the duty finder? Particularly, I would love to see an option on the duty finder to specify whether I will want to watch cutscenes, as I often reach new content by the time it's being farmed heavily already.

Related to my question above - Do you have any plans / idea's to encourage all players (not just high level, serious groups and top tier content learning groups) to use the party finder more effectively? Particularly for causal runs in early endgame content or lower as described above. My suggestions would be:

1. In the duty finder menu, an icon with a number inside could indicate how many party finder groups are currently recruiting for each duty.
2. Allow me to recieve notifications when party finder groups are available matching my specific preferences. i.e I could register to be notified for any slow and easy run in Praetorium, Wanderer's Palace and Haukke HM.

I think if all types of players were encouraged to make better use of the party finder, we might see less problems resulting from conflicting interests in the duty finder.

[Kondor]

Players now have to do 3718 wins on PVP to make rank lvl 40 so its a horrible high value of matches what we need to do. Many players now use bots and 4vs4 match farming and now are born my questions:

Have you plan resolve problem with too expensive grind in pvp before Front Line will come to life? Like increase pvp experience, skills for all on lvl 1 or others changes mechanic to increase popularity of pvp - like giving for wining tomestones, gil, materials for crafting - simply just add npc who will trade wolf mark for this goods and then pvprank are higher than better good we can buy.

[thiago_fzs]

Maybe some open world areas with open PvP, or dungeons with team PvP at certain points?!?!

I would like it so much!!!