two interviews in France by Naoki Yoshida (English)

[Evangelus]

http://rainyautumnskies.wordpress.co...naoki-yoshida/

http://forum.finalfantasy14.eu/viewt...hp?f=20&t=1993

enjoy !

[Fieros]

Thanks for posting.

Notes from both articles:

• SE is considering relocating servers globally to combat latency, but this is very costly and not happening anytime soon
• Free Company emblems can be designed from pre-determined list only, as opposed to player-created graphics
• Samurai will be added and use katana
• Thief or Ninja being considered to dual-wield katanas
• Before additional fighter classes new magic classes will be added
• "Dark" something will be announced
• While raising your chocobo you can choose a focus for it such as healing, fighting, or magic-casting. Also "fat" which could store items. Choco colors will be more a status symbol for players.
• Re-design of market ward/districts for 2.0 to make them less "scary looking"
• Legendary weapons will act as weapon skins and exist across multiple "seasons" so that when higher difficulty content is released, the requirement to apply for these items increases. Crafters will be integral through attaching materia to gear thereby helping players meet the legendary application requirement.
• Ishgard released with 2.0 and contains dragon fight. Primal Moogle fight in 1.20. Primal Garuda and 2 more instanced dungeons in 1.21
• Summoner class with Carbuncle being added
• Dragoon will not have a pet dragon due to balance concerns
• Battle regimens will consist of party members chaining together personal combos. Flashy "Finishing Moves" are being considered for special occasions.
• Magitek Armor from FFVI being actively considered for player mount
• Linkshell kick function will not be fixed until after 1.21
• Player marrige being considered
• Loot situation (ifrit) in process of being fixed, no ETA
• New server architecture will allow players from multiple servers to be grouped for instanced content.
• Server transfers will be possible. Paid or free-once-per-week business model undecided

(subject to interpretation)

[viion]

[*]Dark Knight will probably be added and use katana

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[Belial]

• Server transfers will be possible. Paid or free-once-per-week business model undecided

(subject to interpretation)

I hope this is part of that "subject to interpretation" bit. Paid transfers I have no problem with. Free once per week? Terrible, terrible idea.

[Fieros]

Of course if they want to change the server itself that will be possible. We have not decided if its going to be something that you have to pay money to do or if it’ll be allowed once a week for free. We haven’t made that business decision yet but this new server will allow you to play with people on other servers.

Well that one was pretty straight foward, didn't leave much to interpretation from the interview. ^-^

[Belial]

Well that one was pretty straight foward, didn't leave much to interpretation from the interview. ^-^

Very true, sorry didn't read the interviews only your post, and I read the disclaimer, so... lol

But yea, I think that's a very bad idea. At least timeframe-wise. Even if they made it free (I'm sure people wouldn't mind, and some people it would help like those on a limited budget), it should at least have a much more strict timeframe. Otherwise I see a lot of upset PUGs cause they got ninja'd.

[Antipika]

I hope this is part of that "subject to interpretation" bit. Paid transfers I have no problem with. Free once per week? Terrible, terrible idea.

Free once per week was most likely said in reference to Rift, which started to use this model recently. It doesn't mean SE have in plan to use something like that. Especially when XI still have a 90 days limit.

[Belial]

Free once per week was most likely said in reference to Rift, which started to use this model recently. It doesn't mean SE have in plan to use something like that. Especially when XI still have a 90 days limit.

I certainly hope you're right, sir. I'm not opposed to free transfers, just the time length they mentioned.

[Malakhim]

While we have the materia system from FFVII in here, it's really related by name only.

I'm a huge proponent for magitek anything, but they should probably be original designs for FFXIV as opposed to repurposing those from the Magitek Empire.

I can't wait until next week. Hopefully we'll finally be able to see the contents of that bloody laptop of his.

[Betelgeuzah]

I can't wait until next week. Hopefully we'll finally be able to see the contents of that bloody laptop of his.

What is a Yoshida's laptop? A miserable little pile of secrets.