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

Can you please push housing back to 4.2?

There's just way too many problems to address right now.

• Per Kotaku, 2 FFXIV players on Mateus purchased 26 homes. Source: http://kotaku.com/two-final-fantasy-...par-1796692020
• Tiny FCs are purchasing mansions for 2 players and 512 players get stuck with smalls/mediums
• "Full" servers are separating communities and causing them to break
• Free Company transfers have not been established yet
• No stepped processes to offer fairness to an already unfair market system
• "Gold rush" failures: Every player and their mothers rush on to the congested servers at 5:00am when it launches and by 5:03am every house is gone.
• Tons of new players who won't stick around in 3 months and charge ridiculous gil

Housing is broken and adding more won't fix it.
We need housing revamped, not the same old 2013 problems.

Firstly I want to say the main story of Stormblood was superb.

I've very much enjoy how White Mage plays now, including the lily mechanic. With that said, confession stacks have a very low proc rate and only a 30sec duration and I'm getting very little use of Plenary Indulgence as a result. Could either the proc rate or duration be increased? Personally I would prefer a longer duration, or even indefinite duration while in combat.

Well NPC housing start opening now now that we have freed them from the empire? The questing zones feel so lackluster without being able to go indoors even if there is nothing to go in there for.

Will you be adding new zones? The zone are currently split 3 to 3 with Doma and Ala mhigo. Which makes them seem small over all. Othard is a huge continent but it does feel like it so far.

Yoshi had promised some Ishgard housing, is that still happening in the future? or is that scrapped.

Will there be a Duty Roulette: Legacy Raid in the future?
Wanted to experience the old raids such as crystal towers, but the queue time insanely long.
I only can assume nobody do old raids anymore.
How do you tackle this? It is a shame to let those old raids gone wasted just like that.

Can we have 1.0 plot cutscenes to watch ?

Can we also have non-mob/non-hostile mob/boss based duty instance without limited time for group pose for skills etc?

Are there any plans on expanding the Free Company airship system beyond just making them glorified retainers?

Palace of the Dead's references to Tactics Ogre were great. Is there any chance we could see more non-Final Fantasy Square Enix series being referenced, like Bravely Default?

Currently there is no long term solution in place to encourage players to run older content, especially the original 2.X 24 man raids and Coils. Similarly, the current content only has short term rewards that typically see the content fall off as new things are released and people clear and obtain gear from this content. Is there any chance that we might see something implemented that would keep players engaged throughout the 3 month patch cycle? FFXIV has a short term reward structure and it would be awesome to see there be a long term incentive to play older content and play even newer content for a longer time period.