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

[Warlyx]

Dear Yoshi

if machinist are allowed to change their "guns", why cant Bard exchange their arrows? wouldnt be lovely to use blunt arrows while u are with monk? , slashing arrows with nin/war, and piercing arrows as default?

[Jaibamon]

Will the Ahriman mount, the Bomb Palanquin and the ADS will be able to flight in the new zones?

[Truxton]

Run Selling

Many of the rmts in the game get their business from players who drop exorbitant amounts of money on mercenary groups that charge an equally exorbitant amount. This kind of behavior always sets the stage for the vicious cycle of witch hunting and banning necessary to hunt down all those rmts and players who feed it. Sellers don't care if the money they're being paid with is legit or not and as long as nothing is done about this kind of behavior, We'll keep seeing this ad nauseam.

tl;dr What is the stance of the developers on the way selling runs affect the game?

[Veritas-Ancora]

Can you please make a vanity gear "dapper hat" as seen below? V

[Eul]

You say the Magitek Mount will get Terra's Theme, but what happen with Golden Magitek? Will it get Terra's Theme too?

[Avenger]

Incessant spam via /tell, /shout, and friend request is damaging the game experience and leading players to turn on /busy or ignore communication in their chat logs.

FFXIV's current anti-spam measures (e.g. report and ban) simply are not working, and impose a major burden on players and probably GMs as well.

Dozens of threads have been created in the forums but I have yet to see any official response to any of them.

Could you please comment in this severe problem and describe any planned changes to fight and hopefully eliminate in-game spam?

p.s. I just received 6 new spam tells while I was writing this!

[Kittararae]

I was wondering if you can add the ability to see the TP bar while in dungeons and raids like we see the mana bar? As a bard I like to make sure I have the correct song up for whomever needs it. Also I'm sure it would be helpful for NIN's to use thier skill as well.

[Avenger]

New players are frequently bullied into skipping cutscenes ("stop wasting everyone's time - just watch in the inn!") or locked out of boss battles, particularly in story missions such as Castrum Meridianum and the Praetorium, effectively ruining the climax of the story!

Are there any plans to address this issue, such as locking the boss arena until the new players arrive there, adding party finder-like preferences (e.g. watching all cutscenes) to duty finder, or instituting iLvl sync so that overgeared players cannot easily rush ahead and kill everything?

[Veritas-Ancora]

^ Follow up to Avenger's request:

One of the greatest issues with this was placing cutscene after cutscene in one dungeon.

Can you please force cutscenes in certain dungeons, like Praetorium and CM (and whatever end-level dungeons Heavensward holds)?

[Zohar_Lahar]

Will there be more head equipment that combines hats with eyewear? (similar to Scholar Mortarboard or Buccaneer Tricorne)