FFXIV English Forums Interview

[Raistlin]

Long ago, YoshiP traveled to europe to interview with a lot of websites talking about the game changes and now, after several months we all have lots of questions. I think we can make a list, and hope next YoshiP interview to be with us.

• Please, use this thread with the right intention to ask our game designers about our future.
• If a question already has an official response, let us know.
• Do not hesitate to correct any grammatical errors that may have questions or may be complex to understand.

Armory System / Job System
General
Q: Class/Job system will be the same from 1.23 to 2.0?
Q: In the future, if there are more than one job per class, will they use same weapons?
Q: We will see Hybrid Jobs? in that case, how it work?
Q: Some games uses diferent Skill effect if you are using it for PvP or not. We will see something like this, or do you plan to balance skills to work in PvE and PvP?

Disciples of the War & Magic
Q: Are you planning to add a Rogue/Thief class with the next wave of new classes?

Disciples of the Hand & Land
Q: Jobs are planned in the future for DoH & DoL?
Q: Will there be a way I can have a crafter make me a piece of gear or affix a piece of materia to my gear without having to trade to him and trade back?


Combat

Q: There will be a Battle Regimen or any other multi-player combo with 2.0 release?
Q: Will be able to change weapons in combat if you are not changing your class?
Q: AoE Skills will need to have a target as a center, or is there a plan to have some ground target skills?
Q: Some players think PL need to be changed/removed. There are plans for this?
Q: We will have parties alliances? how many players can join this alliances?
Q: Will be posible to prevent players outside your party to attack your engaged monster?
Q: Will monsters fights have a longer duration than right now? feels useless to have Combos, to can break monster parts, or to attack from diferent locations to deal more damage if they die in 2 seconds.


Interface

Q: There will be two official interfaces? (one for Keyboard users and another one for gamepad users)
Q: Can you give a simple example of something able to do with interface customization?
Q: Updater/Login will be remade too with 2.0?
Q: Trade interface have now 4 slots, there will be a change on this?
Q: With addons will be posible to create a Fan-made translations of game content?
Q: We will be able to interact with NPCs while we are mounted?
Q: Will be posible to read our battle log chat ingame with addons?
Q: Inventory will be a list of items like is right now, or a visual bag like other games?


Materia

Q: There will be Bosses droping rare Materia in the future?
Q: Will items have a max number of Materia you can affix?
Q: Materia with chances to stun/paralize/poison your target will be posible?
Q: Using different Materia types on the same item, will improve our success rate?


Quests

Free Companies

Q: In October, you explained to us that Free Companies will be like Guilds in other games, this means Linkshells are going to be social chats?
Q: Can you talk us a little more about Free Companies? seems will be important to us in the future.

World
Q: Our world will be splitted in diferent zones with transitions. Will be posible to change zones in diferent points of the map, or we will need to go to the "door" to can change from one to another?
Q: Swimming will be posible in 2.0?
Q: With jump in the way, do you feel like falling from heights with damage and plataform content is something needed?
Q: Can you talk a little about new environments maps?
Q: 2.0 engine can support true flying creatures? not floating creatures.


End Game
Q: From 1.23 to 2.0 Primals fights will be the same they are now?
Q: Dungeons planned before 2.0 will be there after 2.0?
Q: Will 2.0 come with new endgame Dungeons/Fights?
Q: We will have dificult levels in some dungeons?


Transport
Q: We will see diferent speed on diferent mounts?
Q: Personal boats or airships?
Q: Animas in 2.0 will exist?
Q: Will be there something like auto-travel in other games?


Mini Games
Q: In Roadmap for Version 2.0 we can see Parley as something planned. Will be the same system we have now?
Q: Is plannned a chocobo breeding or a pet system?
Q: We will see something like this in Phone Apps?


Game Aesthetics
Q: Will any actual race have a physical modification like heigh, adding tails, ears?
Q: Will there be more face options for 2.0 that better reflect the international audience?
Q: What do you think about ingame advertisement?
Q: Wil demi-human or dragon race be playable?
Q: Something new on character customization post 2.0?


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Post your questions and i will update as soon as i can.

[Deli]

Character Feature:

Q: after V2.0 can Miqo'te get more tail motion?
Q: can Roegadyn get an option to add the tail back? I miss my tail and mickey's 4-fingers hands

[ChiefCurrahee]

Q: Any plans to alter the success rate while bonding materia IF you use different category types?
i.e. bonding a Bloodthirst IV + a Strength IV + Fire Veil IV (HP +70 Str +20 fire resist +15) has a higher chance of success over bonding same/similar category materia : Strength IV + Savage might IV + Heavens fist IV (str +20, Crit att +70 , Att power +30)

to encourage players to use a variety of materia rather then just a select few to up HP/MP or increase damage output?

[ArnoMorley]

Will there be more face options for 2.0 that better reflect the international audience? - Developers have said they like having characters represent themselves but the creation options seem to be limited and don't reflect everybody. It's kinda like how in XI there were no black guys, in 14 you can give a char black skin but you can't give him facial features representative of a black guy.

To the swimming question I believe that was answered in an interview, he said like they'd have to consider it through an expansion pack, which I think would be awesome, swimming made FFX so much more dynamic. If they added that, all the people asking for a card game, well how about blitzball?

Will there be relic weapons like there were in XI, and if there are will they be designed so that very few can obtain them? (Please don't make it easy on people :/ )

Will there be a way I can have a crafter make me a piece of gear or affix a piece of materia to my gear without having to trade to him and trade back? This is an annoyance, and there's not always the guarantee they will give your stuff back

Have you guys considered picking up sponsors? Okay kind of a for fun question. Pop ups would be annoying but I think some in game advertisements could be funny. I picture being out in the open world and seeing an airship flying by with an "Eat at Joe's" banner on the back. Or like how the moon is red now, they could make the bottom part blue and make it look like the Pepsi logo.

Although they have lost a lot of money on this game, I wouldn't mind it at all especially if it paid for new content.

[KumaAkuma]

What's the amount of actual playable content we can expect at the start of 2.0? How many new dungeons? Instances for larger groups? Or will we been playing for a few weeks and then already be starving for several months till the next patch?

[Dibria]

What kind of new lower level content will there be? Will we need to pay for a second character or re-roll to access it?

[Chinook]

Materia

Any plan to change the materia scaling system to alleviate inventory and remove useless scales ? +/-1, 2 or 3 stat don’t matter much in the new stats system where stats go over 300. Perharps we could have stackable NQ and HQ materia for each tier instead of 5 versions?

[Silvanesti]

Q: Are you planning to add a Rogue/Thief class with the next wave of new classes?

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Will there be relic weapons like there were in XI, and if there are will they be designed so that very few can obtain them? (Please don't make it easy on people :/ )

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[Raistlin]

i am sure i read something about Relics weapons comming like something you apply to normal weapons changing their skin, someone have the link?

[Coglin]

I sure hope they don't add a rogue/thief class. At least not untill we get a pet class of some kind.