Questions and Feedback on the Future of FINAL FANTASY XIV

[Bethor]

Do we get more Missions with these awesome Cutscenes + Voices? Are we getting more difficult missions? Is the Path Companion going to be more important?

How long roughly till new jobs will be implemented? (I dont mean WHM, BLM & co!)... I mean jobs we either havent seen in FFXI or... I'd stick with Blue Mage too =P

Will there be any "casual gamer" accomplishments? Something which takes a long time to achieve... so we actually get a reason to log in ^^

Are the crafting & gathering jobs getting revised? Are there going to be different ways of acquiring money instead of crafting/gathering?

[SilvertearRen]

グリダニアの再構成の以外のものは、新しい地域を発表するつもりですか？
"Aside from the reconfiguration of Gridania, Are there any plans to announce a new region?"

Sharlayan, please?

[Ryel]

While hordes of instanced content is great please leave in open world dungeons/strongholds separate from other instanced content as the open exploration aspect is a much a part of the game as anything else. (If I've missed something in print or the comment is off base i apologize)

As for billing for the game starting up again, i personally don't have a problem with it as long as updates stay on or as close to schedule as possible and community feedback and support continues.

[Tombah]

Q:
Will there ever be...

1. a Thief job?
2. full-fledged minigames for crafting and gathering? something better than Parley?
3. different day/night music? seasonal weather changes?



Q:
How does my guardian deity (Althyk, the Keeper) look like? I hope he is not a senile old man

[Betelgeuzah]

Does this thread mean that you are preparing the questions (and answers) in advance for the second LIVE letter?

I hope to get this answered during the broadcast!

[Imagene]

Q:

A) I would like to know how the class and job system will interact? The thing i love abt final fantasy is the variety of jobs to interact with. Right now it seems like to have new classes, the dev need to add a class and the corresponding jobs for them. Unless jobs might end up being a kind of class specilization?

B) Will archer ever be able to upgrade to Ranger? A bow using rdps job, purely dps unlike bards?

C) All the artifact armors for jobs look so amazing. Will classes be given the artifact armor treatment?

[Finuve]

Ok, The UI shown in the mockup picture has way too much going onto the point where I just would not be able to stand having that much on my screen, so my question (going off of that mockup)

Will it be possible to toggle display of UI elements without resorting to addons, things like the gil counter, Health bars over player heads, damage and XP showing up over the characters instead of just the log, what looks to be a gil count in the bottom right of that new UI screen. I like my UI to be as little as possible and would like to know if that will be possible when the UI changes. It is already disheartening to not be able to toggle things in the current UI like the experience bar and the XP and damage indicators over top of the characters

also...when can wield a scythe as a weapon....

[Zuellni]

I'm one of the few that has been anticipating paying subscription since day one so this whole year being free has been quite a bonus. I know we have a discounted 6 month payment option (which is still available to us I hope), but is SE considering any form of "Lifetime Subscription"? I read about DC Universe having the lifetime subscription option for around $200. But I'm not so sure how common this is with other MMO.

[Delmontyb]

Will voice acting be supported for all cutscenes? What's your focus in this regard to voice acting?

Will voice chat be a feature for parties to take advantage of rather then using third party tools?

What plans do you have for better linkshell tools and systems in the new XIV?

[Count]

How about, when V2 goes live we get free credit for the time we paid for before V2? I mean, if it's going to be as great as it looks the influx of new characters should help off-set the cost.