Thread: Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXVIII! (Exploring Patch 3.2)

Content creation helps promote this game and giving us the tools to create quality videos, without undermining gameplay, would help improve reception towards FFXIV. One way to help us in this endeavor is to create a setting for UIless recording without actually removing the UI from gameplay. The second way to help is to allow us to choose audio output for various in-game sounds. For example, I may wish to play the BGM through speakers, but have sound effects through headphones.

Patch 3.2 introduced even more ways to obtain the highest tier tomestone; as a result, it is even easier now to cap tomestones for the week without doing expert roulette and so a large section of the patch has become wasted content immediately (the Dungeons). Therefore, in future patches, can we see less Dungeons and instead resources being put into creating more Raid content, and so every patch can introduce 8-man raids and Alliance raids?

Will the game developers remove Machinist's ammunition duration timer in a future patch? It doesn't seem to make sense why ammo can expire after 30 seconds.

What steps are you taking to curtail or remove people who are using cheating tools to increase their DPS in raid environments and to increase their movement speed in PVP areas?

Are you aware that cheating in pvp is starting to become more common? Some people use "speed hacks" which allow them to have sprint-speed all the time.

Another problem is that some people enter pvp, but they do their best to lose as fast as possible. They do this only to farm lore gear.

Has anything been planned or discussed to address these issues?

1. Is there any effort into putting in API support? This was mentioned some time ago, but seems to have fallen off the radar.

2. What other new content are you considering/working on. I know Diadem was made as new content in replacement of making 3 dungeons per patch. What else do you have up your sleeve?

3. Some time ago, you mentioned that ARR was to set the basics and HW was to spice things up. Do you feel you accomplished this goal? From a user perspective, HW has been playing it pretty safe and more of the same ol same ol.

4. Do you have any intention of changing/adding things such as; interesting/unique stats, traits, horizontal gear progression or anything which may help us customize our character, so that an ilvl 220 SMN is not the same as another ilvl 220 SMN?

5. What has been your take-away on many of the controversial/negative reactions for the relic, diadem, 2-dungeon/patch, small amount of raid content and hunts? I have seen you speak to these in the past, but have mostly not addressed any of the feedback. It would be great to know if you've learned anything or taken anything away from these.

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes please yes D:

Why are gil coins not a "real" physical item, yet venture coins are? A lot of us have a whole lot of them, and they clog up our inventory.

[3:22 p.m.]Searching for ventures in player and retainer inventories...
[3:22 p.m.]270 items found in the 1st tab of your inventory.
[3:22 p.m.]891 items found in the 3rd tab of Hayfever's inventory.
[3:22 p.m.]2,376 items found in the 4th tab of Hayfever's inventory.
[3:22 p.m.]2,376 items found in the 5th tab of Hayfever's inventory.
[3:22 p.m.]1,089 items found in the 6th tab of Hayfever's inventory.
[3:22 p.m.]Total: 7002 items found.

Can we get a /fart emote? That would include an animation and sound to go with the emote?