Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXVII! (Localization Koji Fox)

[BigTough]

Wondering if Square Enix is going to make any additional retainers more permanent? You would think by now after years of collecting all this money from people buying new additional retainers that maybe they would have enough money tucked away somewhere to buy new hardware for better server function and thus, new retainers/inv space. Or is the retainer money just going into someones pocket? I'm paying $90 every 3 months to play this game, somehow my 4 additional retainers are costing as much as my sub. This is just so frustrating.

[Kaeoni]

Are there any plans to make equipment more interesting through individual augmentations/enhancements of abilities already available to us on specific pieces of gear, or through set bonuses?

Example: Pants, or a gear set which doubles the duration of Huton.

[Tetsaru]

A while back, Dengeki had an interview with Naoki Yoshida and Satoshi Sakai (the director behind Phantasy Star Online 2), and I believe it was said that, if possible, they wanted to do some sort of collaboration. Recently, players on PSO-World (and later posted to Reddit and Bluegartr) discovered images of FF14 relic weapons in their latest patch for PSO2.

My question is, can you explain if Yoshida and Sakai were finally able to have some sort of collaboration, and what can we expect to see from PSO2 to come to FF14? Also, are there any lore implications behind this?

[EorzeaHero69]

For A Realm Reborn Dungeons and Bahamut raids, when the party decides to unsync it, sometimes the leader of the party forgets to unsync it and we can't tell from their point of view if they have done that. Can you add the Sync/Unsync part of the Que Window before we get in them so the entire party knows?

[Sinmal]

Can we get some fresh lore on the Duskwight?

Just a quirky snippet would be much appreciated.

[Sinmal]

The Gem of Shatotto. Is only that specific BLM soulstone the Gem of Shatotto or are all BLM Soulstones known as Gems of Shatotto including those presumably created by Mhacchi Voidmages?

[Sinmal]

Are Xaela clans lead by Khans?

[Sinmal]

Is it possible to have a post with some of the quirks of the twenty-six Seeker of the Sun tribes in the same fashion as the Xaela clans in their naming convention?

[Fernehalwes]

Greetings!

First off, I would like to extend a personal thank you to everyone who took the time to post a PLL question for me. I understand that recently I haven't been as active on the forums as was the case in the past, and for that I apologize. While work on FINAL FANTASY XIV remains my main focus, as one of the senior members of the entire Square Enix Localization department, I am also expected to handle countless other tasks ranging from the mundane...to the extremely mundane. These other tasks have been sapping most of my free time--time I usually employ to scour the Lodestone forums for questions I can field.

The good news is, things have begun to calm down somewhat. This means that I can hopefully set aside a few moments to address some of the questions that have been burning in your minds. This PLL is one such opportunity, and it's looking like I will be able to answer about 10-15 of the questions posted to the forums. The thing is, there were far more than 10-15 questions posed, and a lot of those were just as good as the ones we selected for answering. So, what I'm going to do is...

1) As the PLL will be held in Japanese, I'll aim to have an English recap of my portion of the PLL up as soon as possible--hopefully by the following Sunday evening (PST).

2) The week or so after the PLL, I'll try to address questions (a few at a time) that weren't chosen for the show by posting my replies here on the forums.

We're currently in the middle of patch 3.2 translation, so it may take a while for me to get to the majority of the queries, but I want to field as many as possible, be it lore questions or localization questions...or even that question I got on the JP forums about my favorite ramen. (It's miso+butter, by the way)

Until then!