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

[ShinigamiZero]

Are you going to stop with the cash shop considering its quite obvious that you will be losing subscriptions (Including myself). Where has your honor and pride gone Square-Enix?

[Sinsain]

How much of your new content will be locked behind paywalls? Can you tell us while its being advertised so we know if we should cancel our subs early rather than wait to find out we don't get full access to something?

[Kahoko]

Could we have personal way point makers? These would be markers only the player could see not the entire group. Would be helpful for learning new battles.

Kahoko

[Reneo]

Please let the community know as soon as you can if Golden Saucer is locked behind a paywall. There are many other people who are beginning to leave the game due to even more 'content'being locked in the Cash Shop. I appreciate all of the people that have worked on the game. Thank you for reading.

[Tsubakii]

Are there any plans to raise the subscription rate and abolish the cash shop? Personally i'd prefer it!

[Fuma]

I'd love for each race AND gender to get specific idle battle stances like in FFXI. They don't need to be the same stances as FFXI just as long as they are different for each race and gender. The current default stances just look odd or unnatural with certain races. This is already done in the game for a few job races but on a very small scale (roe DRG's spear points up while hyur DRG's spear points down). Would love to see more unique stances per race AND gender.


Here is a picture for reference of MNK from FFXI showing different idle battle stances:




I've put up a poll to see where the playerbase stands on something like this being done.
http://goo.gl/qyHHrj


Link to thread in the general discussion forums: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...77#post2634777


Roe DRG idle battle stance:


Hyur DRG idle battle stance:

[Arkenne]

As mentioned in the last Letter, it was confirmed that there are hints of you guys working on a system that will allow players to explore lower level dungeons on their own.

However, are you guys taking into consideration that this system be also able to work with Duo and Trio parties?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

What will be the party formation for the Crystal Tower?

[Renoiria]

Hi! Thank you for answering questions!

Have you ever considered adding mounted emotes specific to each mount? For example, being able to rear up your horse using the "rear up" command? The game has many horse-like mounts, so it should be easy to apply the animation for many of them.

[Vaultic_Fang]

Will there be any changes to make Alexandrite easier to obtain now that the questline has been extended? This is by far the most time consuming step out of the whole Zodiac quest line for new players.

It's nearly impossible to acquire them from FATEs and hunts died at the start of 2.4
The only real way to get them is through doing the daily or spending 400 tomestones for just 1.