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

[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!

[Sovjohn]

Chocobo Porters are probably underused, but still fun to use as a non-teleportation means of transportation around.

Do you plan to make them better linked? For instance, while someone can easily travel from / to a major city to another area, currently it's not possible to hire a chocobo porter from North Shroud to take you to the South Shroud. You can only go to Gridania first and then to another destination within the same nation.

Will we see "linked" chocobo porters where you can go halfway around the world using a porter and / or more flexibility in destinations?

[Paito]

What will be the Basic stats for Roque/Ninja?
Will it be DEX?

[Asheilin]

Is Eye for an Eye ever going to be able to be placed on our summoned pet, on ourselves? Or is it glitched?

[Bauti]

As we know Frontlines is a new type of PVP. In the future you plan to add new types of Maps? But also I have something else, now this type of PVP is something like dominion type, where you need to conquer and hold diferent areas. With new maps of Frontiles, you also plan to add different types of PVP battle? For example, conquer enemie base to win but we have to push first different outpots? Or a type of Frontlines where we need to kill as many enemies as we can to win? Also you plan you add lsome kind of weapon help? such as cannons or maybe ncp warriors from each GC ?

Thanks

[abzoluut]

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.

To add do this, do you plan on making gear job specific instead of cross-job gear design outside of AF gear?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...97#post2205797

[DukeBurden]

The first few months of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn felt like a tribute game to all Final Fantasy titles. Are there any plans to continue this theme in the future, such as famous character hairstyles, cross game events, glamour weapons from other titles, special mounts, etc.?

[Airget]

Are there any possibilities to allow crafters to lock in 3 crafting classes for desynthing, since as it stands now those who have decided to take all crafting classes to 50 are at a disadvantage with the inability to reach 100, and considering that by 75 desynth skill the process can get rather long and expensive it's rather discouraging to have to worry about losing skill points at higher levels with the inability to take 3 crafting classes to 100 and not have to worry about them being in a 98-100 limbo.

[Gardthorne]

Are there any plans to reconsider the current pace of character progression? While a 6 month cycle for gear is not unusual for the genre, it is also very stale and almost universally disliked. MMO veterans quickly become acutely aware that they are on a treadmill when gear is invalidated at such a rapid pace. Are there any plans to introduce horizontal character progression to help avoid/mitigate the problems with power creep that will be coming?

[Akanea]

Are there any plans to implement a birthday system or some sort of event/reward to celebrate our birthdays in game? We selected all that stuff when we created our characters, but have not had anything come from it since then.