TL;DR of live letter

[Cinno]

He hasnt seemed to really answer any of the questions so far..

Almost every response he's given has been "Please, give us more time." I mean.. why even have live letters if they aren't going to be able to actually answer most of the questions.. :/

[MistyMew]

I wish they would allow UI add ons asap, I am in NO WAY knowledgeable enough about this stuff to make anything!!! lol.

But to those that are, please make an add on like Bartender in wow if they ever do allow them here O.o ughhhhh!

[Kadrothan]

Most of the live letters I've read up on have a lot of "(insert server/playstation/staffing) limitations", a bunch of "we're looking into it" and "Please look forward to it.™" anytime popular requests make it into the questions. I'm sure we'll eventually see some of the stuff pop up in the next major patch or two, but there's other stuff we'll never hear about again for months on end until they deem it worthy of an info update in some distant live letter down the road.

Edit: I've kept tabs on every live letter since patch 2.0 days and the theme is the same more often than not.

[Chessala]

With all the "limitation", Sony crap and whatever convoluted system required for PS, they should really consider making platform specific clients a thing. Why do PC players have to suffer and experience a less enjoyable game experience because of PS limitations? You play on console, you accept the limitations. You want all the nice stuff and bling? Well, get a PC.

I find it ridiculous how they use the limitations to not implement stuff into the game. No one is saying to lower the quality for PS players but don't use it as an excuse to not give extras for PC.

[Kallera]

With all the "limitation", Sony crap and whatever convoluted system required for PS, they should really consider making platform specific clients a thing. Why do PC players have to suffer and experience a less enjoyable game experience because of PS limitations? You play on console, you accept the limitations. You want all the nice stuff and bling? Well, get a PC.

I find it ridiculous how they use the limitations to not implement stuff into the game. No one is saying to lower the quality for PS players but don't use it as an excuse to not give extras for PC.

Player discrimination. Said extras will be deemed mandatory for high lvl content, because the mechanics themselves usually are not clear enough

[raelgun]

Player discrimination. Said extras will be deemed mandatory for high lvl content, because the mechanics themselves usually are not clear enough

This is the funny thing, I can't think of any addons that couldn't work on the PS4, so sony obviously has something else as a problem and this is the problem with console makers, they are stubborn as hell even though they most likely don't need to put much effort once the API has been implemented as the API will govern the rules and boundaries of said playermade addons.

[Scorcher24]

No to interface addons. It already destroyed WoW, why do you people want in FFXIV?
Threat meter is included, the UI is customizable, DPS Meters are not necessary and just create an even more hostile environment in the game.
I will never understand this.

[Seezur_Undies]

It's both PS3 and PS4, consoles don't get along with addons very well.

Bethesda is creating add-ons/mods for Fallout 4 so it is either not the addon issue or PS4 is not the problem because addon/mods are possible for PS4. PS4 is getting a major hardware overhaul which may be why they can use the mods and addons for Fallout 4 as well as adding 4k monitor compatibility

[Aquaslash]

As much good as they can bring, I can't see public DPS meters going in without being abused by the community. There will be those tryhards that treat every mode like a savage raid and unnecessarily bully those who underperform. The kicking is already retarded for SephEX and it doesn't need to spread.


The feature itself is great, but the playerbase is awful.

[Warlyx]

Bethesda is creating add-ons/mods for Fallout 4 so it is either not the addon issue or PS4 is not the problem because addon/mods are possible for PS4. PS4 is getting a major hardware overhaul which may be why they can use the mods and addons for Fallout 4 as well as adding 4k monitor compatibility

his response was :

this is not about, ‘You have to have a PC,’ ‘You have to do it yourself.’ The idea is you go to play the game, there’s a menu option, you click on it, and there’s a bunch of stuff for you to download. And you click on the stuff that you want and you start playing a game with these new mods. So we want it to be a really streamlined, fun experience. There’s still specifics that we have to work out. It’s part of our post-launch plan.”

so more than like they will implement a mod manager , so u can download and activate mods as u wish