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

[kaynide]

2 Questions regarding housing:

1) Will personal homes (not FC homes) be instanced? Something like FFXI's mog-garden, with a house.
2) Will it ever be possible for a FC to have its own instanced neighborhood/wards for personal housing?

I REALLY like the idea of having a quiet pocket just to myself and not having to deal with neighbors or people taking up all available plots right away.

Alternatively will it ever be possible to have an instanced "Free Company Members Only" neighborhood?

I also think this would be a great way to spend downtime. (upgrading, expanding or improving our home)

[SabbaNoergi]

Are there any plans to introduce RP (role playing) servers?

[Kiara]

Would you consider having more Meaningful / Interesting Stats on Equipment (e.g., "Enhances [XYZ] Ability" or making other Stats more useful (STR vs. DEX vs. VIT on a Tank)) so that you can have more Gear Sets per Item Level, which means more Horizontal Progression for Rewards?

This is so that we feel like our efforts aren't *wasted* every 4 - 6 months (w/ a new Item Level). It also can stem the "Item Level Inflation" happening now, and make your equipment feel like it's worth the effort to acquire. We're only Level 50, and yet we're at Item Level 115. I can see this inflating to absurd levels like Item Level 700, while we're still Level 75 or something like that.

[Jobefuzz]

When will Mac Version of FFXIV ARR be release?

[maelor]

Any plans to add content for airship/ferry travel that makes trip last longer? Could offer two modes of travel: Long way and short way. The short way would be exactly as it is now. Pay some gil and zone in to next zone. Long way would make trip last a period of time where things like fates or fishing or general interaction/sightseeing could take place.

[Aoxaviar]

Any plans to add content for airship/ferry travel that makes trip last longer? Could offer two modes of travel: Long way and short way. The short way would be exactly as it is now. Pay some gil and zone in to next zone. Long way would make trip last a period of time where things like fates or fishing or general interaction/sightseeing could take place.

This is one that I would really like to see. It would be really cool to take a ferry, and on a long trip, change to the Fisher gathering class to be able to fish the big lakes and oceans while in transit. Also, with cloud fishing, be able to do it from the airships that we currently have available to us in game.

[Aoxaviar]

Can you discuss when and/or how the Ascians will start to make a larger role in the game? Will they have an area of a map like the Primal Races? Will the Grand Companies start offering Leves or hunts for them? Will we see a FATE setup like Lighting in game where we can fight them? Dungeons exclusively related to them?

[Starlord]

Can we get another "Player's Poll" like we have in 1.0? To see if major changes needs to be made in certain areas. Or just to see if everything is all good?.

[Mrhappy1227]

Have you considered content that is in the open world but instanced for a full raid group? Such as force spawning Ifrit and it creating a small battlefield that only the 8 party members can enter while others look on.

[Mrhappy1227]

So with 2.0 being called FFXIV: A Realm Reborn, will the expansion keep "A Realm Reborn" in the title, or will it be FFXIV: (Name of Expansion)?