Thread: Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XIX! (Patch 2.5 Preview)

Will the golden saucer be open 24 hours and will any events/games be made available ONLY at certain times?

Back in version 1 and the alpha/beta, extra transitional animations occurred when players started moving, and stopped moving. You would see the running animation break into a natural run, then naturally slow down to a stop. Why wasn't this kept in ARR? Will it ever be back?
It really made the feeling of running everywhere so smooth and realistic.

Can you tell us anything about the Gold Saucer?

Is Hildibrand gonna retire in 2.5 or will he come back in 3.0?

Rank IV materia such as Savage Aim and Savage Might is very expensive and somewhat difficult to get, which poses a problem for the Novus relic step. Will there be another method to obtain these or an increased rate in their appearance when spiritbonding items?

We already have graphical options to be able to turn off effects, shadows and other such things... would it be possible to implement an option to turn "special" AoE markers (like in Ifrit, Titan and Levi) into the basic red circles? I feel that something like that would be a huge help to players who have issues with latency in those fights or who are on PS3/lower-end computers, where having to load those special AoE markers can mean the difference between a player being able to dodge successfully or getting hit by the AoE because of the loading lag.