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

Reposting my questions for Art Director Minagawa here, since I am unsure if they're appropriate for him to answer. Is there any chance of simplistic Hingan outfits being released in-game in future patches? Simplistic in comparison to the somewhat ornate gear sets that we seem to get all the time. It would be nice to receive gear that NPCs wear. For instance, we can recreate the Brass Blade outfit, so it would be nice if a future dungeon or NPC would give the Sekiseigumi outfit. I was rather disappointed at launch by the relative lack of fitting Hingan outfits, considering that Kugane is a whole city rather than a simple end game hub like Rhalgr's Reach.

Additionally, I apologise if this question has been answered before, I have a feeling it's often asked whenever these live letters occur, but are there any plans to make the current glamour system less restrictive? There are often pieces from other classes that appear to go well with other pieces from different classes, yet it is impossible to use them in conjunction due to class restrictions. An example being the Arhat Sandogasa of Casting/Aiming, which I feel would go well with the Samurai Job's aesthetic.

There was a article about two players on small server that owned 28 houses together. This takes away the chance that others may own a house. They are able to buy this many thanks to no restrictions (like one FC house and one player house per Server no matter how many alts you have). If housing stays such a limited feature, do you plan for any restriction in the future so that people cant own so many houses?

Originally Posted by Ariochie9771

Hi there
I wanted to ask if SE / FF14 will ever implement a way for players to buy gil from the mogstation.
I used to make gil by selling Coils to lower levels who had just unlocked them (I did ok this with the GM's) However now that the boosts have come out - I am practically not needed. And I only really ever concentrated on Raids.
So again I wanted to ask if SE / FF14 will ever implement a way for players to buy gil from the mogstation. Now Blizzard who made World of Warcraft has done this and they reported over a 20% increase in profits when this was first released. Blizzard released the game time token which could be sold over the auction house. However Blizzard did not prepare themselves for what happened - lots of people were buying this item and basically making it worthless in game for a long time. So I would ask you to not follow their example but make it so that we can buy Gil from the mogstation and not an item which we have to sell in game.

I dont agree with the buying of gil directly but I could get behind an game time item that you can buy on the mogstation that you could gift, sell, trade, ect. For instance I have a friend that plays and I pay for his sub. Would be nice to not have to have him log into the mog station and go over that whole ordeal since I dont want it on recurring. This would make it so much easier to help him with that.

I know of a few games that do this and it seems to work out very well for them. Takes potential profit from gil sellers, while providing a method to potentially make some gil while benefiting SE as well as the possibility to help out friends or FC mates who may be having a hard time or need a bit of help. Really every game should do this thats on a P2P system. There's just this stigma against buying things with real money equating to online resources. Again I dont support the buying of gil/gold/ect directly, however under certain situations, when benefiting the parent company of whatever thing you are buying resources for if it has a tangible reason to exist (such as a in game token for play time) it can work and in other games it seems to work very well.

As far as the in game time token value, that would be community based and would have highs and lows. If its too low people wont buy them and the market will go up, market goes up and people buy more leading to a lower price, and repeat. Something like this would probably stabilize overtime within a decent margin though, since it is something you pay actual money for people might not be as undercut happy and even if they are just buy them and wait for the market to go up or save yourself the real currency. Outside I would imagine it being the same price of either a half month or full months of playtime considering the game time allowed by the token.

Crafting question:

Are there any plans to make it so that when crafting stuff, you can use raw resources your retainers have as well? If restrictions needed, then maybe make it work while close to crafting stations and summoning bells?

(But please - make the radius large enough that groups of crafters do not feel forced to hog the summoning bells in the cities.)