Translations (French -> English)

[Chinook]

Some quickies from the French forums:

- Free Companies will be available from Launch

- Details for dying aren’t available, but rest assured that currently dye-able items will also be dye-able in ARR

- Gear bought with dungeon tokens will have lesser stats than dungeon drops

- Residential won’t be there at ARR launch

- No date fixed for iOS / Android authentificator, but it is in Naoki Yoshida’s planning

- It will be possible to use a USB keyboard with the PS3 version

- You will have to manually go down your mount to talk to a npc

[Dragonheart]

Some quickies from the French forums:

- Free Companies will be available from Launch

- Details for dying aren’t available, but rest assured that currently dye-able items will also be dye-able in ARR

- Gear bought with dungeon tokens will have lesser stats than dungeon drops

- Market Wards won’t be there at ARR launch (Chinook’s note: the sentence is as vague as my translation, could it mean that we’ll be rid of them !?!?)

- No date fixed for iOS / Android authentificator, but it is in Naoki Yoshida’s planning

- It will be possible to use a USB keyboard with the PS3 version

- You will have to manually go down your mount to talk to a npc

Nice confirmation on company! But not very happy to hear this... :

- You will have to manually go down your mount to talk to a npc

/facepalm

Ppl will say that this is not a problem, but you'll see when you have to do a lot of chain quest for exp how boring this will be...

[Elexia]

It was stated Market Wards will no longer be instanced like it is now.

[Tiberious]

We already know that the instant travel is temporary as it was confirmed multiple times and that further down the line we might get the choice to either fast travel or actually ride the airship for events/quests etc.

In this rep response he just confirms that this will apply to boat ride as well as Chinook told us above:

http://goo.gl/uxgD8

That sucks, I personally enjoyed the riding of the ferry or airship in FFXI. It really felt like it added life to the world. Sure it may have been time consuming but it also provided a break to hit the kitchen or something while waiting.

[Rane]

Some quickies from the French forums:

- Free Companies will be available from Launch

- Details for dying aren’t available, but rest assured that currently dye-able items will also be dye-able in ARR

- Gear bought with dungeon tokens will have lesser stats than dungeon drops

- Market Wards won’t be there at ARR launch (Chinook’s note: the sentence is as vague as my translation, could it mean that we’ll be rid of them !?!?)

- No date fixed for iOS / Android authentificator, but it is in Naoki Yoshida’s planning

- It will be possible to use a USB keyboard with the PS3 version

- You will have to manually go down your mount to talk to a npc

If it's true that the market wards won't be there at launch, it suggests that we'll have another system of buying and selling items in addition to the wards. I could see them creating something similar to an auction house, while separately overhauling the markets system to create something more unique. Yoshida has indicated that the markets would be a lot different in 2.0. Maybe markets won't be the principal means of buying and selling, but will offer a different experience from the auction house/trading post/brokerage.

In any event, I doubt that the dev team would release ARR without a means of buying and selling. Though such a move wouldn't be unprecedented--FFXI didn't have a working auction house at its Japanese launch in 2002--I doubt that Yoshida's team is planning to repeat that kind of scenario. We'll probably have at least one means of buying and selling at launch, but it might not be markets.

[Starlord]

If it's true that the market wards won't be there at launch, it suggests that we'll have another system of buying and selling items in addition to the wards. I could see them creating something similar to an auction house, while separately overhauling the markets system to create something more unique.

Yeah, They can't have no " Economy going on at ARR Launch, that's something I don't think even any MMO has done, is not having a Economy system at launch. So if this is indeed the case, I think their will be an AH to substitute this and when Market Wards are ready, perhaps they will have a different use for them ( or even interlinked with AH). But Retainers are usually stored in their, so perhaps they could rename Market Wards into like Storage Wards to put all your unwanted stuff in there.

[Genz]

If it's from this post, then it doesnt mention market wards, but residential area.

[Chinook]

If it's from this post, then it doesnt mention market wards, but residential area.

Hmm you are right, read too fast and thought "Quartiers résidentiels" were "Quartiers marchants".

Editing my post, thank you.

[Munba]

If it's from this post, then it doesnt mention market wards, but residential area.

The news remains always bad.. ;_;

[Chinook]

More quickies:

- Macro’s will be saved client side (in reply to someone asking if they’ll be saved server side).

- It will be possible to repair equipped gear.

- It will be possible to repair every item in your inventory by clicking one button (items that are repairable by your current class). Each repair will still cost one Dark Matter of the corresponding rank.