Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVI! (The Future of FFXIV: ARR)

[Aoxaviar]

Do you plan on removing more invisible walls within the zones to allow a greater freedom of exploration?
(allow more rocks to be climbed, rivers to be crossed, cliffs to be scaled, chasms to be jumped, etc.)

I totally agree with this one. There are several places in the shroud that are big holes (south shoud north of Camp Tranquil) in the ground with ladders (or the large hole close to the White gate of Gridinia) and It would be really cool to add those areas as open world caves with either really high lvl creatures and/or cool hunts since they have been added with 2.3.

[Echowyn]

I was looking at the Japanese sites and noticed there were Strategy Guides/Artbooks, Shirts like the defeating Titan button up and Tshirts, in short: When would the US/rest of world besides Japan get FFXIV merchandise, mini figures, mousepads, apparel, keychains, FFXIV branded controllers/mice/keyboards, statues, Kai figures, potion(drinks with collectible figures), plush dolls, etc.?

[Bushido_Brown]

In the case of instanced dungeons, many of us have noticed that rather than receiving new gear items, we have been receiving an overwhelming amount crafting materials that are otherwise acquirable through other means, or of very small value (Minimun, Filtered Water, and Cooking Sherry come to mind). Was there a particular reasoning for this, particularly after a boss fight, and would the development team possibly take changing the drop rates into consideration?

[KaiKatzchen]

Will there even be a cross server black-list of sorts for duty finder?

We know the GM's can't take care of every little complaint we have as players. If SE implemented a black list for Duty finder for each data server, people could choose to black-list players who have been rude/harassing if they feel it's worth it.

When queue'ing up for duty finder it won't match players with those on their black list, and if players are consistently rude to other players they will find themselves having longer queue times and can only blame themselves for it. It might force players to think about their actions and remarks.

[KaiKatzchen]

Is there any way you can make glamours connect to the class/job and not the gear?

I adore the SMN look and coat, but I dislike the weathered caster body because what it does to my tail. Because of this, the glamour that I put for my BLM makes my SMN look exactly the same. If I glamour my SMN coat my BLM default's to the weathered and I can't do anything about it except glamour something both can wear... then I'm back to them looking exactly the same.

I noticed you can dye something that is glamoured but it will not change on other job/classes (EX: I wear my crafting glasses on my WHM which I colored white, but on my crafter they are still green even though they are the same piece.) so can you please make this work for the look of gear too~!

[RygaenYuui]

Will PLD get any traits other than shield oath to help their actions bolster their enmity generation?

[Hollow_Tears]

Are there any plans to have Swiftsong remain on when changing areas and remain on when getting on/off our mounts if we casted it before hand.

[Asheilin]

When will Blue Mage or an equivalent be made available?

[TheodoreMcIntyre]

I've noticed that alot of NPCs and civilians, such as some of the Doman children, pedestrians in Ul'Dah, or Lewenhart from the most recent Hildibrand quest line, wear clothing sets that are unavailable to players. Will these sets ever be made available to players?

[TetsuyaHikari]

I was joking with a friend of mine earlier while discussing the tower and it actually made me curious about something. Do you have plans to incorporate the Tower of Babel and/or Kefka's tower into the game at some point as well so we can fight against Ultros, Golbez, the four fiends, zeromus, etc.?