Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVII!

[PEANUT]

Are there any plans in the future to enhance and upgrade the graphics? Especially for those who have PC's who can handle it, while still being able to dim them down for those who unfortunately can not?

[PEANUT]

Will we EVER see any airship riding while being able to view the sky similar to how it is in FFXI? Also, will we ever have any airship/skyward or sea/underwater battles or story/event content? To me, those are standard Final Fantasy types of content!

[PEANUT]

Last question, will there be a simple way(such as a vendor to trade with) in order to switch any gender specific gear? Since we can already switch genders, I would hope that we would be able to change the gear, even if we have to do it manually, in order to still use them!

[Vermilion]

As a career ninja back in FFXI, I, along with many others I'm sure are dying to know what stats ninja will use. I've farmed virtually everything I possibly could need (Atmas, Sands, Oils, Relic, Materia) for ninja, in two weeks I will be capping my Soldiery and have to start spending it the next week, Given the amount of time I'll only have enough to get a full set of either STR (Monk) or DEX(Bard) gear set aside.

[Krisom]

A few questions from me,
Animation Locks - Unreliable Non-GCD abilities.

Can we have animation locks looked at? As it is now sometimes using stuns is unreliable unless you're just auto-attacking or using specific abilities that have a shorter lock-out on non-globals. For example if I was trying to stun Eruption on Ifrit whilst performing the Full Thrust combo, due to animation lock I wouldn't be able to use the non-global stun until the very end of the attack and that can take longer than the short Eruption cast.

Gameplay precision over animation precision.

You addressed this with Warriors where their stun would start as soon as they use the ability rather than when the animation lands but some other classes are suffering from them. Benediction and Hallowed Ground need their animations to play out before the effect begin, some of these are used in mostly emergencies and it's pretty frustrating to see your Benediction be used and by the time it actually lands the player is dead. The ability even goes on cooldown without their purpose fulfilled. Will we ever see this issue addressed?

Can we have European Servers?
I play with some people who are lucky to have less than 150ms (ping) and in a game where the mechanics mainly consist of dancing around and avoiding stuff in a timely manner the distance from here to Canada puts them in an unfair advantage, some of us even need to use VPN services to try and reduce the latency and spikes that are caused mainly by the large distance.

[Empressia]

1. Is the current weathered gears + sands + oils + UAT system will be carried through 2.4 and beyond? If yes, will future sands + oils purchaseable with hunt seals?

2. Is there any possibility if we can join the Garlean Empire and be an evil villain? (not to mention those awesome cool looking magitek suits)

[Amaranths]

Is there any plans to add larger scale content such as dyanamis like in FFXI or Sea or Sky. And will the relic weapons we have now come to an end any time soon? Or will they keep upgrading to we get to excailber etc

[Vasala]

Will we ever be able to have our chocobo out while queuing for dungeons or doing grand company levequests?

[Destinova]

What will the gear lineup be for Ninja when it comes out in 2.4.

Will it have Myth, Soldiery, and The new currency gear? Will it have the same relic quest line as all the other jobs?

[broren]

Could you please do something about Atma drop rates, or the method to acquire them? The current model is not fun at all, and it's discouraging seeing people talk about novus and animus steps and you're months behind through no fault of your own. I've been doing FATEs for at least 2-3 hours a day, often times ignoring other content completely, and barely have half of them...and i've been doing this since 2.2 launched!