Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVI! (Exploring patch 2.3)

[MsKirsten]

Do you hate us PS3 users so much? Its bad enough that literally NONE of us can do Odin or Bahamut due to lagging (I can't even see them). And now we are EXCLUDED again for the S rank and sometimes A rank hunts. Forget about the S rank cause I can't even see them (like Odin/Bahamut) and most of the A ranks are "invisible" to me too due to lagging!!!

How many PS3 users do you have in your entire subscribers? And those are the ones that won't advance as quickly as the rest in terms of gear-wise since we are excluded from the Allied Seals drops from missing out the S and A ranks due to lagging. We will always be behind PC/PS4 users for exchanging Allied Seals to Oils/Sands/Alexandrite access.

Huge SIGH........

[kaynide]

Is there any more information about what kind of mini games will be implemented? Personally speaking, I really hope to see some quality games that I actually want to play with friends here, not like what was thrown together in FFXI.

Also, please please please consider adding real-world copyright-free games to this (Chess, Checkers, tic-tac-toe). Hell even "another" clone of the puzzle games that are popular on smart phones would be nice.

[Kislyn]

"After the release of Patch 2.3, we have identified a number of players that have used illicit actions to complete certain content. On Jul. 14, 2014, 9 accounts that engaged in illicit activities have been given a temporary ban."

Temporary ban? RMT gets permanent for breaking ToS but people using ffxivapp/3rd party programs that have radar on it and other stuff only get a temporary ban? Why?

9 people out of how many? If you can only "temporary ban" users who get reported by saying something about the third party program, when they get a temporary ban that only means they won't say anything to anyone to avoid being banned again, BUT still use the third party program and ruin the hunt system for everyone else

Can actions be taken against this ffxivapp and other third party plugins that give PC users advantages over console users?

If you want hunts a success, make it a pop with a lot of ??? For each party like Abyssea in xi, can make the items purchasable with company seals

[Mrhappy1227]

After witnessing The Hunt's arrival, is there something the development team wishes they'd done differently?

[lilirulu]

Do you have any intention of increasing the amount of allied seals gained from Daily Hunts?

It's very difficult for some players to do their weekly hunts because the mob is being hunted by the whole server. Do you have any plans to change the weekly hunt into something more similar to a leve mob so then players will be able to complete it without having to compete with their whole server?

[Bittereye]

In regards to the future of FFXIV: ARR, will we ever see an implementation of Depth of Field while in game? Perhaps with the DX11 client? Currently, the graphics options have DoF for cutscenes only and it would be a nice visual effect to see DoF while in game.

[MsKirsten]

May I suggest increasing the drop rate for Alexandrite from FATES for those people that can't do Hunts due to lagging or has no radar (most of us). At this time, FATES farming for Alexandrite is too inattractive with the same drop rate as Atmas and we need 75 Alexandrite to 12 Atmas (do the maths!).

[SirStylus]

This question ties in with the recent addition of The Hunt, however the issue I'm wanting to bring up has been a long standing one.

During large scale fights, like The Hunt or large FATEs or world bosses such as Odin or Behemoth, often times enemies or even ones own party will not render due to overpopulation. Is there any way that you can implement a render order mechanic that ensures that party members and engaged enemies are given rendering priority?

I feel as though this is not only important for the existing content I've mentioned, but also for any content that the dev team decides to add to the overworld in the future.

Simply making the game engine render entities in an order such as (Party > Engaged Enemy > Party Pets > Enemy > NPC > Other Players) would sufficiently alleviate the problem from here going forward.

(I have a topic where I go into more detail about this issue here : http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...osses-Hunts%29 )

[Zanmato]

Yoshi-P mentioned in a previous Letter From the Producer that new Limit Breaks would be added to make jobs/classes stand out more. When will this happen?

[Zanmato]

So, we have Second Coil of Bahamut (Savage).
Any chance of seeing Savage Primal Mode, like Ifrit (Savage), or Ramuh (Savage)?