Questions to Global Community Producer Toshio Murouchi

[Fazraye]

Greetings, everyone!

We're pleased to announce the next Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part XLIII! This next Live Letter will take place on Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 2:30 a.m. (PDT) / 9:30 (GMT) / 10:30 (BST).

In this thread we’d like you to pose questions for Global Community Producer Toshio Murouchi .

Global Community Producer Toshio Murouchi oversees the Community Team that handles live events and broadcasts, the Support Team that handles inquiries from players, the Special Task Force (STF) Team that handles illicit activities, the NOC Team which observes real-time tasks like server status, and various other teams related to the community.

Task Details

• Community Support (Live events, broadcast, official forums, promotions)
• Customer Support (GM, Information Center)
• Illicit Measures (STF, RMT handling)
• Network Observation (NOC)

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* For more information regarding the Letter from the Producer LIVE, please read the following: NA/EU
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[Sovasin]

Will you be adding more options to the right click report feature in addition to just "Report RMT Activity"?

[Minotaur21ri]

Hell-O!

Is there any news to report on the possibility of us getting a Nintendo Switch and/or XBOX One Version of the game?

Thank You!

[Sovasin]

Would it be possible to shorten the maintenance time for patches?

[Texa]

Why has there not been more action taking against people using third party software to gather for extremely long periods of time, flooding the market and making various high end mats worthless? This is a very big issue in the English community and even if we follow every single guideline for reporting it is rare to see any action taken on behalf of the GMs to try to stop this behavior. Third party program afk gathering is every bit as bad to the game-world economy as RMT but its much more difficult to report, have the reports investigated by the gms, and very rare to see it discouraged.

[Llus]

Why has there not been more action taking against people using third party software to gather for extremely long periods of time, flooding the market and making various high end mats worthless? This is a very big issue in the English community and even if we follow every single guideline for reporting it is rare to see any action taken on behalf of the GMs to try to stop this behavior. Third party program afk gathering is every bit as bad to the game-world economy as RMT but its much more difficult to report, have the reports investigated by the gms, and very rare to see it discouraged.

As an addition to this, what is being done to combat botting in PvP and PvE content? We've seen a HUGE increase in botting in PvP content since the addition of experience, and the reduction of experience has had no effect since botters don't care about the time to experience ratio. Botting in PvE content has also been an issue for years but less of a problem due to the limited party size and ease of kicking (generally PvE botting is done for RMT activity and bots go in as premades). With the release of Eureka, botting in PvE content is starting to increase.

[Veritas-Ancora]

FC Search Function/Board

Please allow an in-game way to search for and apply to FCs without needing to find a player.

New guilds need this. Shirogane houses need this. People who don't want to be standing AFK in zones without houses need this.

An FC search function will help people apply much easier.

Thank you!!

[Veritas-Ancora]

Increased Incentives to Come Back to XIV

As an MMO gets older, it becomes more difficult to convince friends to come back to the game. Are there additional bonuses you plan to add to the Welcome Back Campaign such as a free instant level potion to L50?

Though I once objected to the jump potion, I see that it has done little to hurt our game. I think it's more important to reduce our queues and keep our community thriving.

[Veritas-Ancora]

Leveling in The Relic Grind

It's becoming increasingly harder for new players to join Eureka parties because their level is too low. Will you abolish the leveling feature in future Eureka content, or reduce the max levels per area to about five levels each?

[Veritas-Ancora]

As the global community producer, the number of threads to ask Yoshi P questions for Live Letters has drastically reduced.

Even this Live Letter has no ability to ask Yoshi P questions directly. Please explain the thought process on why it's much harder to offer in-game feedback now than it was back in 2013 to 2015.