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

[BreathlessTao]

Is there any chance for us guys to get the GS bunny outfit please? (Already posted an image in the appropriate thread that's a good example of how it could totally be done, there's already at least one more fanart for it there.) Or something different gender-locked at least?

On a more general level, can we please expect to leave gender-locked gear behind? Or at the very least more equality instead of there being two sets with one being female-only and the other without gender restriction? It's an annoying unbalance that many of us don't see justified to exist in the first place. An explanation as to why it actually exist would also be nice.

[Bluevann]

With the three new jobs, players who play all classes will find their Armoury Chest Main Weapon tab at 23/25.

What are you planning to do to approach the inventory crisis this game has been in for a while now?

[BreathlessTao]

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?

^ 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)?

Indeed, I haven't even been aware but just checked and I'm shocked to see that of all the dungeons featuring item level sync, the main scenario ones aren't among those. Kind of a major oversight, considering new player abuse.

On a more general level: are there any plans of you guys picking a side and giving us clear-cut rules, please? Because new player abuse can really get downright horrible way too often. I'm one of those who know from experience how disheartening it is. And quite frankly, the only reason such disputes exist and can't be resolved is because there being no actual directions when it comes to the DF and roulettes, because you want to leave it all up to the players - it clearly doesn't work!

[AshraStarwind]

In regards to our Grand Companies, will we ever see new missions, gear, items, and more specifically, the ability to move up from our current cap of Second Lieutenant?

[Renoiria]

SUBJECT: Mounted Sprinting!

Every player is able to sprint for about 20 seconds, allowing them to move much faster for a short time. Has there ever been an idea to allow a similar speed boost for mounts? I'd love for my Magitek Armor to shift gears into overdrive for a short time, or for my unicorn to consume TP to run twice as fast.

[Esper]

will the Manderville Gold Saucer ever get perhaps a Summoning Bell for retainer service' and/or an inn room?

[Esper]

I'm happy to see we all getting Cloud Strife Advent gear for 720 vet days, any plans to bring more gear glamours such as Tifa or Yuffie or maybe even Aeriths dress, Vincents cowl, in the mog shop or otherwise?

[Esper]

Any chance we will see a similar version of the haunted mansion from FF VII Gold Saucer find it's way into the Manderville Gold Saucer?

[Causality]

Any chance we will see a similar version of the haunted mansion from FF VII Gold Saucer find it's way into the Manderville Gold Saucer?

In addition to this May we also add an Ax to the prize vendor? I was very disheartened to find that everybody gets a weapon.... except Warriors.

[AltanRapsied]

In addition to this May we also add an Ax to the prize vendor? I was very disheartened to find that everybody gets a weapon.... except Warriors.

War isn't alone. SMN and SCH don't have weapons too.
In the french community we got this answer : "You noticed that all Gold Saucer weapons are related to an ennemy. The reason why there's no WAR, SMN and SCH weapon is because they would have to make a lots of modification about how some ennemies act to make their weapon wearable. We have planned to add them in the future."
This was mostly that if I remind well. I'll search for this post.