Letter from the Producer LXII

[Corue]

They're going to be genderlocked forever, aren't they?

[galbsadi]

They're going to be genderlocked forever, aren't they?

I wouldn't quite expect "forever," but it's probably going to be a while.

Granted, given the lifecycle of MMOs, it might not be FFXIV we're playing at that point...might be FFXX or something.

[Halivel]

They're going to be genderlocked forever, aren't they?

Time will show. Knowing Japanese way of dealing with things, such answer can be considered as covered no. However, knowing Yoshida and his wishing to please community and knowing his team, who surprisingly often do things without notifying him (how often does he tell about it on streams, lol?), I personally will not be surprised if they will suddenly break into his room with bunch of concepts and draft models. ツ So it would be correct to say that chance is nor very high due to amount of work, but there is a chance.

[Gemina]

They're going to be genderlocked forever, aren't they?

In all honesty, it is better to look at it this way. Not only do you have to thoroughly read Yoshi's statements, you also have to read between the lines to understand what he's telling you without him directly saying it. The time we live in is the present. Not the past, nor the future. Female Viera and male Hrothgar are here now, and that is the way of it. It is now time for all of us to move on and look forward to the coming expansion. It is less than two months away now.

[PharisHanasaki]

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No, I asked because your answers weren't as well written as this last one. I do understand, mind you. But given how many coding bugs and limitations we've had in the past due to the rushed dev 9 years ago, what Yoshi P said doesn't strike me as odd.

My point was for people saying 'Oh they're liying to me cuz that's so weird. There should be a magic code that fixes everything fast'.

[Nighthawky2010]

My main character on Midgardsormr is AU'RA. i have an AU'RA on the Primal DC & an Elezen on the Crystal DC.

Once Hrothgar was announced @ the Japan Fan Fest...my thot was I have Phantasia...both my alt characters will be THUNDERCATS!!
I was never interested in making "bunny boys" & would care less.

Dancer makes alot of sense to be a physical range DPS,now there will be 3 range DPS.

Kudos to the DeV team for the 540 modified head gear pieces. That's impressive, especially doing it in their spare time & without Yoshi-P knowing about it. They went the extra mile for the Community.

COME ON JUNE 28TH!!

[TheJarvisMan]

Just logged in the forums to say that the live letter reminded me of one of the main reasons why I love this game. This dev team is next level when it comes to clarity and transparency. Just a well-thought-out, concise, comprehensive response to all the feedback that they've been receiving. Thanks, SE.

[SieyaM]

So I am going to be bitter about Viera and I am coming to terms with that. But it looks like they are going to use this balance issue to continually not add healers, for any expansion ever. It has been brought up for two expansions now and balancing three healers is not going to get any easier in the future with new abilities being added each expansion. So I guess what we have is all we are going to get for healers.

[Ayer2015]

So I am going to be bitter about Viera and I am coming to terms with that. But it looks like they are going to use this balance issue to continually not add healers, for any expansion ever. It has been brought up for two expansions now and balancing three healers is not going to get any easier in the future with new abilities being added each expansion. So I guess what we have is all we are going to get for healers.

Considering he made no firm commitment to adding a healer in 6.0, you may be right.

[Alucard135]

I think his post was more about laughing at it not being hard when the modders would tell you that no, there is actually a lot of work involved for the dev team?

Exactly that. Those saying that it's a simple job to fit the gear on all races just because they share the same mesh, have no idea of what else is done for each race specifically. I've seen some modded gear pics where the dye color breaks at certain locations on the mesh from a very small modification.