Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XVIII! (FFXIV: ARR)

[Monsalvato]

Will Gardening ever be available somehow to people who do not have an FC housing or Personal housing? Is there any reason why an activity with such a high economic potential was bound behind the housing system, making so only a minor % of the player base could effectively make use of it? (for some reason I got the impression Gardening was initially planned as something cosmetic or with very small economic impact)

[Monsalvato]

What do the devs think about the current state of economy in servers? They do ackowledge difference from server to server (especially Legacy vs New ones), but other than that do they think that everything is fine or do they have some plans in mind? Some choices they regret?

[Monsalvato]

Will we ever be able to queue for Duty with our companion being out? This would be particularly beneficial especially for jobs who have very long queues (Damage Dealers).

[Veritas-Ancora]

Binding Coil of Bahamut: Turn 5

Many can't find a party for Turn 5 and Free Company members can be frustrated to help a new player spend a lot of time to help people learn this fight all over again. This battle is heavily strategy-intensive so gear upgrades can't save someone through this battle that no one plays any more. Will this battle be eased in Patch 2.5 to bring more people to Second Coil Turn 4?

[Haprimac]

With the addition of new jobs(/classes) on the expansion, will we get more armoury chest space and/or retainer space for free?

[Veritas-Ancora]

Dyes for High-Level Gear

I was very surprised to see that dyes don't work on Poetics gear. Will we see more options to dye our gear in the future like with Soldiery?

[Veritas-Ancora]

Introduction of Final Fantasy Characters

Something very big happened in the story for Final Fantasy lore junkies. Gilgamesh (FF5) can cross the Void, Lightning (FF13) can cross worlds, Shantotto (FF11) can cross dimensions.

But Krile Baldesian (FF5) can't, and she's confirmed to be a main story NPC. This is very very very exciting. Has Yoshi P reconsidered bringing in more Final Fantasy heroes and villains?

[TripPsyc]

Could you enlighten us on possible changes to the summoner job, if any?
With the chance of new egis in xpac will we be forced to use only garuda for most of the game content as it is now?

[Zebyxus]

I have seen on Amazon.com that pre-sales are already available for the expansion, so has a price been set for it and when will other game retailers be able to make it available?

[Empressia]

Can you please confirm the rumour about Ishgard / Coerthas housing areas in Heavensward?