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

[DeviFoxx]

Can you please make High-Level Gathering Nodes that yield large sums of Crystal Shards?

Some gatherers are reluctant to gather Shards because they take too long to farm in massive quantities. This negatively effects the Crafting Economy when serious crafters have to pay large sums of Gil for shards—further compounding the fact that high-demand crafted items typically require a lot of shards to craft, thus causing players to either spend endless hours gathering at a slow rate or spending even more large sums of money to buy more shards.

What’s worse is that because Low Level Gathering Nodes will yield shards, the RMT players will take advantage of that by creating new accounts with low-level MIN / BTN.

High level nodes that offer larger quantities of shards would hamper the RMT market by making it harder for low-level gathers to get shards in huge bulks at one time while simultaneously rewarding high level gatherers by giving them actual incentive to farm shards.

[DeviFoxx]

Lately, it seems that RMT /tell advertisement spamming has been occurring in much greater frequencies. So fast that I've had them happen from 5 different accounts within a 30 second time frame.

The only temporary fix is to set yourself to /busy status. Which is something players shouldn't have to do.

Is the Dev Team planning to address this in some way? Because this seems to be an ongoing source of frustration for many players.

[DeviFoxx]

I have duplicates of Rare Cards from playing so much Triple Triad. It's a shame to either toss them or sell them to the card trader at the Gold Saucer. At some point in the future, will cards be finally Tradeable or Sellable? It would be nice to give the cards as gifts or rewards to friends.

[Violet_Magenta]

I have duplicates of Rare Cards from playing so much Triple Triad. It's a shame to either toss them or sell them to the card trader at the Gold Saucer. At some point in the future, will cards be finally Tradeable or Sellable? It would be nice to give the cards as gifts or rewards to friends.

This ^^

Alternatively, will you be able to desynthesise Triple Triad cards in order to obtain rare items (similar to the card mod abilities from Final Fantasy VIII)?


I think some of the new jobs could even lend themselves to this idea, for example, the Astrologian (being "card masters" in using the divining deck) could have a card mod ability to obtain these rare items from Triple Triad cards. Making the class useful outside of the battlefield as well.