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

[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)

[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?

[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?

[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!