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

[Teslo]

Materia

Other than using it for spiritbonding to get higher-level materia that's useful ONLY for Crafting or for the Novus relic upgrade (And there are only 2 or 3 kinds of materia worth using, at that... Crit, Determination, and Accuracy... And Accuracy is only worth using because the price of the other two at level IV is 700k on my server...), can we do something else with this system? Maybe... get rid of it? It takes a prohibitive amount of time and money to fully meld crafting gear in order to break into the "End Game" crafting. There's GOT to be a better way to do this. Please consider something a bit more friendly (Hell, I'll even take regular grinding over this nonsense!) for the expansion.

[Eul]

When the story of Doga and Unei will continue? Are we gonna have next tower after Syrcus Tower?

[Trishin]

Will Heavensward, introduce raids/dungeon that will be bigger and open for exploration with different challenges?

[Trishin]

Will we see the return of Ferry rides, from 1.0? Also will you introduce Airship rides from FFXI?

[LunaHoshino]

Are there any plans to ever sync the timing of AoE ground indicators and the cast bar instead of having them slightly off the way they are now? I've encountered more than one new player who was getting very frustrated over their inability to dodge AoEs because they were basing it on the ground indicator rather than the cast bar.

There's no good reason why players should have to be looking at two different spots on their screen to figure out whether they made it out of that AoE in time or not.

[DBelmont]

Will the new jobs, including Dark Knight, be able to access 2.0 50 level content?

For instance, you've put the NIN 90ilvl "Koga" despite it not being part of the necessary progress required for NIN to catch up to the 2.4 content. Does it mean that someone has to the option to do the same thing with Dark Knight? Like getting the 2.0 relic version of Dark Knight?

[Kewldude]

When can we expect an upgrade of the Game graphics and especially the Textures? While the 3D models are high quality, the current textures appear low quality, bland and washed-out. There doesn't seem to be any vibrancy to them. I've had a number of people see me playing the game on max settings and calling the graphics 'bad' or 'really low lvl', not knowing they are talking about the textures and lighting. Something I think would normally not even be a question for a Final Fantasy game.

I'm sure that this is not simply a problem with the ps3 holding it back, because there a number of ps3 games which have fantastic texture and lighting quality.

That said, given that this is an MMO, I understand there may be other issues. Knowing this, can we expect the ps3 support to be dropped soon followed by improvements to the graphics and gameplay given the strength of the ps4/pc?

If not, at least provide the better graphics as options for people on PC or PS4

[Danbo05]

Ultros was such a fun fight, and could easily be on par with Titan EX if given a couple more mechanics. Is there by any chance an Ultros EX fight in the future?

[Kewldude]

Will there be primal/dungeon/raid content which requires a lot of level element interaction and dealing with moving parts such as floors repositioning, breaking, moving up or down in context with a fight? What about player interaction to start certain procedures or co-operate at the same time to activate things etc. ?

Will bosses get any form of random attacks similar to dzemael hm with the players requiring to respond to their cleaves, sudden jumps, thrashes, charges etc?

[ViscaBarre]

Could we be able to turn off the ceiling light in our private rooms? I quite like the lightning from the various lamps available to us but the ceiling light's overpowering brightness sort of kills it.