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

[Serret]

Water content?

During one of the Heavensward presentations a black chocobo was seen gliding right over the water.

Besides "Sky" content, will we finally be able to swim and also get some seascape content?


(as a sidenote, it would be amazing if characters could swim at the beach in the mist :3)

[Serret]

Housing

Given the fact that Free Companies will need a workshop in their houses in order to build an airship, and considering the limited availability and prohibitive pricing for plots on some servers, how will the housing problem be sorted out?
And will the housing system be getting extra features? (ex: rooms for private houses like FC houses, guestlist\permission management, kick\ban someone from your house, eternal-bond features)

[Serret]

Playable Instruments?

Will we ever have playable instruments like other MMOs do?
Remember Tifa's piano back in Final Fantasy VII?

[Tonjit]

As it is right now, on the "Party List" part of the HUD we can see the party members, their HP, their MP and buffs. However we cannot see their TP. This is not a question, this is a demand for you to implement this feature.
Right now we have 6 classes/jobs that mainly use TP as their source of enmity generation, skills etc. Why cant the bard, the ninja for example see the party members' tp?

My second question is: will you add a /bellyrub emote?

[Ardna]

More facial hair options please!

[Aoxaviar]

I want Ramuh style beards available. While we are at it, a breaded beard would also be really cool

[Littlevivien]

Benchmark

Will the 3.0 benchmark come out on mac also or is it just a pc release?

[TheEvilNiceGuy]

Can you give some sort of bonus to those who went through the eternal bonding something like the veteran rewards?

[TheEvilNiceGuy]

By any chance can you add some special techniques for the married couples? Something that would force you to wear the ring and be worthwhile like the ring could allow the couple to cast magic farther or target them when it normally wouldn't be able to so it's like an amp? Imagine the tank is dying and the healer send the heal through the ring and maybe it can AOE?

[TheEvilNiceGuy]

Will it be possible to make all primals gain a new difficulty so the ones from ARR aren't just forgotten? Call it Savage or Extreme Extra E)(X?