Live Letter XIV Discussion Thread

[Corfish]

That was only part 1 of 2.3 judging by what happened in the past ( not a race in the past but ) i would say yes they will have a new race come 2.3 but they will not say anything till the next live letter followed by the 2.3 patch a week or so later

But there's no reason for another race lore wise yet. The obvious choice for the next race is whatever race Yugiri is, but none of Domans seem to be the same race as she is. So until the story opens up to allow us to go to the Garlean empire, I doubt we'll see other races.

I mean, I would be excited if they did reveal one, it just seems really unlikely.

[Zumi]

Did they say when 2.28 was going to be out?

[Kaze3434]

Did they say when 2.28 was going to be out?

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[Kovensky]

My personal experience with vague terms like 'office issues' is usually people taking vacation time, maternity leave and things like that.

IIRC it was actually infrastructure issues (networking/power supply). I'm not an english native speaker so I guess that didn't read as I expected.

[Delmontyb]

I'm so pumped to be able to do duty roulette as a group. for DPS with long queue times, befriend a tank and go with them.

[snakey77]

Is the new race in 2.28 or 2.3?

Neither. what the heck. this wasnt even a hint of a topic, lol.

But there's no reason for another race lore wise yet. The obvious choice for the next race is whatever race Yugiri is, but none of Domans seem to be the same race as she is. So until the story opens up to allow us to go to the Garlean empire, I doubt we'll see other races.

I mean, I would be excited if they did reveal one, it just seems really unlikely.

sorry i was thinking of classes not so much races but it leads me to ask why not drop a new race with new classes all in one foul swoop

[Camate]

Greetings,

Below is a message from lead designed Takeo Suzuki in regards to a comment that was mentioned during Letter from the Producer LIVE XIV.

Lead designer Takeo Suzuki here.

Thank you all for watching the Letter from the Producer LIVE.

If you’re saying it’s your intent to make it so equipment dyeing is meant for crafted items, I don’t get how this is connected to the reason for reusing designs for crafted equipment.

As I was unable to explain about this well during the show, I’d like to make a follow-up on this.

I personally wanted to make dyeing equipment one of the special perks for crafters, but the reason for reusing designs for crafted equipment is more related to resource management.

Specifically, I’d like to use resources to add more cosmetic equipment than battle equipment, and we’ve been able to use our resources to add the sailor outfits, spring dresses, and other equipment in 2.2, and the nightwear for patch 2.3. In exchange for spending resources on these new outfits, we’ve made the crafted battle equipment we add in even numbered patches with similar looks to previous equipment, but with an enhanced item level.

On the other hand, while we spend the most resources on rewards for raids and primal battles, we’d also like to keep providing equipment with new graphics for the new dungeons we add.

Fundamentally I had wanted to use the same balance of resources moving forward, but with the introduction of the Glamours system in patch 2.2 and the fact that the position of dungeons has been changing from 2.0 to 2.2, I’d like to make adjustments to our resource management.

It’s a difficult issue to balance what we can do, but please keep on submitting your feedback!

[Meier]

Hmmm Really? Why do you guys make lousy excuses instead of doing a more thorough job at gear design and graphics?

Could you please explain this then? I am confused

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020797/Behind-the-Realm

For one you claim the graphics is better in 2.0 than 1.0 but clearly yoshida actually points out how 1.0 graphics was much superior.

Why not put both effort into making, both glamour gear looks nice, along with actual useable gear?

It seems to me that the glamour system was introduce so that you guys can be more lazy and not actually come up with original designs for high level gear, leaving people to use low lvl already in game items to use on their high level equipment...

[Gesser]

Make what adjustments to your resource management? That was so confusing & didn't really speak well to the inquiry.

My feedback is: put much more of your emphasis into combat gear diversity, invest less resources in Spring Dresses (while nice, we don't need them frequently & the combat equipment homogeny is getting out of hand already).

Also more emphasis on better standards/QA with regards to clipping for the future, where viable so as not to eliminate artistic freedom.

[Gilraen]

Hmmm Really? How about brain management? Why do you guys make lousy excuses for you’re a better job at gear design and graphics?

I for one think you sir is full of it, and you need to stop lying to us.

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020797/Behind-the-Realm

For one you claim the graphics is better in 2.0 than 1.0 but clearly yoshida actually points out how 1.0 graphics was much superior.

Why not put both effort into making, both glamour gear looks nice, along with actual useable gear?

It’s clear that the glamour system was introduce so that you guys can be more lazy and not actually come up with original designs for high level gear, leaving people to use low lvl already in game items to use on their high level equipment.

Better isn't always 'better'. 1.0 did have far better graphics but they required bleeding edge computers (for the time) to actually LOOK better. Seriously, Crysis had nothing on 1.0. That said, their focus has always been to make the raid gear better than tome and crafted gear. It's part of what drove some players away. The Glamour system is just a means of customization that alot of gear simply does not have.