Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE: E3 Edition! (General Q&A)

[Ikern]

This probably seems like a very silly question, but I've been dying of curiosity about the lone Carbuncle in Idyllshire. What's his story? Who's the little guy's summoner? It's kind of sad when I see him all alone.

[Matthew0320]

Can we have an option to cycle cutscenes so we can watch them in succession without having to go back in the CS log?

[zeth07]

What is the current status of the Weapon / Armor Log that has been discussed in previous Live Letters, as far back as XIII and XVI?

From Live Letter XIII the answer given was:
"Yoshida: A plan for a weapons and armor compendium has come my way. The plan is to allow you to read about the origins of each weapon and armor after you have completed the series, and we would like to implement this as well."

Then in Live Letter XVI the answer given was:
"The first idea would simply have players building a collection of weapons and armor, while the second idea would allow players to read the lore surrounding the gear they obtain.

And

"if we decide to go with the first idea it will be implemented in patch 2.4. In the case we decide on the second option, it will be implemented a bit further in the future. In any event, we've progressed quite a bit on this and we will have our verdict soon enough."

[Altstadt]

We would love to see our character have a special animation when they have low health/the brink of death (let's just say when they have 1/4 health left). Like many of the Final Fantasy games, when in Critical state, the characters assume a bent over or crippled position, and their HP is usually at a low percentage. In other cases, the characters simply look exhausted.

This would bring more life to the characters in the game! This would also help with visual cues for the party and healers as well.

[Danieou]

So!
When is the Yoshi-P minion going to be a thing ?

[flyinginthesky]

Are we ever going to see an increase to customer support quality? I sent a query regarding a duplicate charge via email support, and after waiting a few days, I found out that I actually needed to contact chat support. After waiting in queue for over an hour and a half (when supposed wait time was 8 minutes), I was met with an unhelpful representative who just copy/pasted the same replies over and over and refused to help.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Would You Allow Us to Pay (Real Money)
to Transfer to
Instanced Large Housing?


It seems like the real issue behind not having large instanced housing is the server costs. Instead of forcing our FCs to abandon our homes and destroy everything for housing which filled in a matter of 10 minutes on Gilgamesh, can we transfer and secure homes on an instanced server?

I am seriously willing to just drop a flat $300 bucks down and make my FC happy for the next ten years. I'm dead serious.

[Kendoza]

Is there any plans to increase the limit of specialisations for Discipline of Hand classes from 3 to 4?

[DracoRyx]

Hunts: Have the developers considered anything to do about the hunts in the game? I personally come from Balmung but most servers suffer from where hunts end up being...kept by a single guild or group only and all outsiders are purposefully kept out of the loop so only these players can get rewards. Besides that, 9 times out of 10 by the time something is called, it's dead. Have you, as the developers, considered doing anything about this, such as making it so that hunt monsters scale up based on the number of players around them or something?

Future Goals: Have the devs considered about which area we might be travelling to next, or which of the new jobs we will be seeing next? We know it's a ways off, but there's always a chat or two about which jobs we'd like to see, such as PUP, DNC, or RDM from FF11. Have the devs had any thought or input to this?

[DracoRyx]

Housing as well: Can we get the developer's opinions on the large server's housing issues? The current ward model works for less populated servers, but on Balmung the housing wards were all bought out for other players to sell the plots later without building much on them, within 45 minutes of Patch 3.3's maintenance being over. Do the devs know this is going on? And if so, can we hear something about them fixing such issues and making it so that more of us can more easily purchase housing without fear of big guilds buying entire wards for resale?