Thread: Ask Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XXXVII! (Exploring Patch 4.0)

What caused the issues with Raubahn, Pippin and most recently, Cid? Did these issues arise from design problems, infrastructural problems, or player congestion? Would it be possible to avoid these issues in future updates and later expansions, and how?

Many of the changes made to 51-59 content and 61-70 content seem great, such as dungeons which always give an item for your class upon killing the final boss, and class quests that give you the materials and require you to craft it yourself rather than buy off the AH.

Would it be possible to go back and make similar changes to old content?

A more general way to ask is...new players currently have to work through old content to get to new content, not just in terms of plot and storyline (which is fine) but also in terms of the older content being less well designed when compared to new content. Are there any plans to update old content to have it match the standards of new content?

Reportedly swimming was added to some old areas. Can flying be added to pre-HW areas?

Stormblood has added lots of attractive new gear to the game and of course, it's getting harder and harder to store everything on our character. Some people have so much gear stored that they can't even buy things from the Mog Station any more, even with extra retainers!

I know there are a lot of technical challenges in creating a 'glamour log' we can access freely anywhere we go, but can we not have a special instanced area like the aesthetician where we can store all of our collected clothing (and dyes/mirage prisms?) and set up our 'looks' outside the main game to avoid placing too much demand on the infrastructure while playing? We can keep our most important items in the armoury chest as normal, but anything we get tired of can be saved to this 'glamour log' permanently and removed from our inventory.

This will save so much inventory space that we won't need so many inventory expansions for years to come, and make rerunning content to collect additional glamour items more rewarding.

After the massive server congestion from Stormblood, there have obviously been incentives in order to alleviate this however many players argue there still isn't enough to make them swap.

Will/when are plans going to surface to allow FC's/housing/other items to transfer as it seems many people would tell me they would swap if these would go along with them?

Please change Housing so a person can only own one Personal House. This will make housing much more accessible since people can't buy up entire wards anymore.

Will Hildebrand return in 4.1 or will we have to wait until 4.2?