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

[Kirkiko]

I would love to be able to customize my friends list. Like change the order of my friends or put them into groups or even able to add notes to beside there names (Only you can see them). Also can we have a shout (kind of thing) that selects all your online friends so you can talk/shout to them at once ? I know you can use a ls for this but most people (including myself) who cannot make/join anymore linkshells.

Are there any plans to make something like that in the future?

[Autp78]

Could we ever see some form of political system in the game. Like something that could stir up a little drama/conflict amongst players of the Three Grand Companies. For Example, maybe GC's could actually fight over territory with resource buff's integrated with in front lines. Maybe GC player elected leaders could decide what buff's players of their GC could get such as, they conquer this land +10 perception on all DOL.

[LordLynar]

Hello, love the game and it's story. My question is are we going to see more of the Empire in the future and something along the lines of more Weapons (Omega, Ruby, Emerald as a few examples) that the Empire is "unearthing". Also anything on bigger party play like 16 man dungeons??
Thank you for putting out such a great game and keep up the good hard work.

[Kuan]

A few posts have already asked about the return of the Adventuring Companions. My question is if there is no current plan to bring them back, will we get something that tells us what happened to them? Or should we just assume they died when meteor hit?

[Jin_Yamsaski]

Is the level cap going to be change in patch 2.4 or the upcoming expansion?

[Airget]

Have you considered raising the lv limit of DOL/DOH classes before DOW/DOM?

[Mcshiggs]

You have now released a few pieces of content that ended up being absolute disasters because the people developing it had absolutely no foresight whatsoever. In the future do you plan on either opening up a test server, or at least hiring some people that have the ability to take the playerbase into consideration when making content?

[kaynide]

Are there any plans to make DPS a little more complex or more useful in future fights?

I play WHM, DRG and PLD

As a DRG it is incredibly easy to just trudge through most endgame content, even doing pretty well on a first/blind run.(I'm talking Coil, CT, HM/EX Primals).

Because DRG is MUCH MUCH easier and MUCH MUCH less stress than my other two jobs. so I tend to favor going DRG- I'm sure others as well have avoided tank or healer because of the headache involved. This creates a bottleneck in Duty Finder with too many DPS.

I would like to see DPS taking more active roles/responsibility in party. Similar to how Bard has silence duty on Coil T1.

I humbly suggest:

• Give each of the DPS a very short-cooldown so that it becomes their responsibility to do certain jobs (Silence, Stun, Sleep).
• Give DPS abilities to encourage self-mitigation(Drg Jump could have the player not receive any damage for a quick second, effectively dodging a single AOE)

[kaynide]

I have several friends who are just getting into their first 50s. In order to progress they now have the option to grind for tomestones to get i90 gear or to do Crystal Tower Labyrinth for i80 gear. After a week of CT runs, they're already at the iLVL to do Coil (i90) or the new Syrus Tower.

As the game progresses, fewer and fewer people want to do older content, meaning new players will simply grind hunt or dungeons for i90 effectively allowing them to skip Coil and LotA.

If this is the plan, then why waste so much time/effort in making content that players eventually will simply skip through? Players really should have to go up step-by-step to get better gear, not jump 20 iLvls at a time.

[Alanto]

Hi, I really like that you add gear glamours - but can you add something like in guild wars 2 or in DC Universe online ? That we can unlock gear appearance and then change it from menu or some storage, because there is so many beautiful gear sets and I don't have so many free slots for them. Thank you!