New things from German interview with yoshida

[Recon1o6]

From a german interview with yoshida, translated over by the kind folks on the reddit discord

https://www.buffed.de/Final-Fantasy-...rview-1372927/

Q: A lot of players enjoy making new characters, but get scared of having to redo everything. Are there any plans to make Achievements, Minions and Mounts or even Glams account wide?
Short A: No
Longer A: There is NewGame+ if you want to play the story again, there are Fantasia if you want to change your looks and if you want to make a new char for RP get a level boost on the Mogstation

Q: You announced that Male Viera will be added in 6.0. A lot of players are still waiting for additional hairstyles or the option to wear hats on Viera or Hrothgar, are these being worked on and potentially introduced with the addition of Male Viera?
Short A: Not yet
Long A: First off, the reason why Viera and Hrothgar can't wear hats right now is the following. We have very standardized specifications when it comes to head gear and the unique design with the long ears on Viera doesn't always meet these specifications. If we allowed every head gear piece, it would lead to clipping or other errors. The unique design of Viera and Hrothgar just prevents us from allowing these pieces, if we want to follow our specifications
Nevertheless, we are aware of player feedback and we are definitely not the kind of dev team that ignores their players feedback. (Healers would like to know your location)
There were a few things we said would be impossible to do, but we worked hard on it and made it possible in the end... I hope to have some good news soon.

Isghard housing available in 6.1


TLDR
Reaper has 3 types of actions, scythe, avatar, joint scythe+avatar
Its sounding like a burst dps
Anime influence, bleach for one example

No plans to make game more alt friendly

Hats later for buns/lions, finish the genders first

[Roda]

Q: A lot of players enjoy making new characters, but get scared of having to redo everything. Are there any plans to make Achievements, Minions and Mounts or even Glams account wide?
Short A: No
Longer A: There is NewGame+ if you want to play the story again, there are Fantasia if you want to change your looks and if you want to make a new char for RP get a level boost on the Mogstation

God that's really sad. Newgame+ and fantasia addictions are not a replacement for exploring the game as different characters.

[LaylaTsarra]

I have loads of characters and as a result I don't bother with collecting lots of things. Now if there was a common bank that would be awesome but it's not happening and not surprised with the answer.

[BiddyBatnana]

So no new hairstyles nor hat compatibility for Vieira/Hrothgar as I expected. These races are really a waste if they don’t plan on making them fully customisable as the other ones. Adding male Viera/female Hrothgar won’t help.
Really what were they thinking ?
Truly a bad joke.
I’m glad the game has so much more to offer but still ..

[Mahamon]

From a german interview with yoshida, translated over by the kind folks on the reddit discord

https://www.buffed.de/Final-Fantasy-...rview-1372927/

Q: You announced that Male Viera will be added in 6.0. A lot of players are still waiting for additional hairstyles or the option to wear hats on Viera or Hrothgar, are these being worked on and potentially introduced with the addition of Male Viera?
Short A: Not yet
Long A: First off, the reason why Viera and Hrothgar can't wear hats right now is the following. We have very standardized specifications when it comes to head gear and the unique design with the long ears on Viera doesn't always meet these specifications. If we allowed every head gear piece, it would lead to clipping or other errors. The unique design of Viera and Hrothgar just prevents us from allowing these pieces, if we want to follow our specifications
Nevertheless, we are aware of player feedback and we are definitely not the kind of dev team that ignores their players feedback. (Healers would like to know your location)
There were a few things we said would be impossible to do, but we worked hard on it and made it possible in the end... I hope to have some good news soon.

Hats later for buns/lions, finish the genders first

I kind of expect that, really. Right now, I'm just happy we get to play as a male viera after so long (15 years since FF12 in my case, I always want to see one).
Just hoping that since we can't use most headpiece in game at least add more hair to both m/f viera so we can play around with that.

[Catwho]

I have one character designated as the "completionist." All my titles, achievements, etc come from that. Last I checked I was #22 on my server for achievements on that character, which ain't bad. Mogstation minions? That character. Mounts? That character. Nice glams? That character, unless an RP character "needs" something specific.

All my RP characters are usually one job wonders, maybe with a couple of gathering or crafting classes leveled when appropriate to their back story.

I don't mind pouring money into my hobby. I think about my friend, who flies drone planes. He got a brand new plane for $200 and crashed it beyond repair an hour later. Or my friends who spend thousands of dollars on MTG cards, only to have them become useless a month later due to a rules change. In comparison, the occasional $20 for a special occasion outfit for a character isn't unreasonable.

[Dyvid]

From a german interview with yoshida, translated over by the kind folks on the reddit discord

https://www.buffed.de/Final-Fantasy-...rview-1372927/

Q: A lot of players enjoy making new characters, but get scared of having to redo everything. Are there any plans to make Achievements, Minions and Mounts or even Glams account wide?
Short A: No
Longer A: There is NewGame+ if you want to play the story again, there are Fantasia if you want to change your looks and if you want to make a new char for RP get a level boost on the Mogstation

Q: You announced that Male Viera will be added in 6.0. A lot of players are still waiting for additional hairstyles or the option to wear hats on Viera or Hrothgar, are these being worked on and potentially introduced with the addition of Male Viera?
Short A: Not yet
Long A: First off, the reason why Viera and Hrothgar can't wear hats right now is the following. We have very standardized specifications when it comes to head gear and the unique design with the long ears on Viera doesn't always meet these specifications. If we allowed every head gear piece, it would lead to clipping or other errors. The unique design of Viera and Hrothgar just prevents us from allowing these pieces, if we want to follow our specifications
Nevertheless, we are aware of player feedback and we are definitely not the kind of dev team that ignores their players feedback. (Healers would like to know your location)
There were a few things we said would be impossible to do, but we worked hard on it and made it possible in the end... I hope to have some good news soon.

Isghard housing available in 6.1


TLDR
Reaper has 3 types of actions, scythe, avatar, joint scythe+avatar
Its sounding like a burst dps
Anime influence, bleach for one example

No plans to make game more alt friendly

Hats later for buns/lions, finish the genders first

In regards to hat. I think they should at least make Job Relic/Artifact Armor hats work on all races.

[GeminiReed]

Q: A lot of players enjoy making new characters, but get scared of having to redo everything. Are there any plans to make Achievements, Minions and Mounts or even Glams account wide?
Short A: No
Longer A: There is NewGame+ if you want to play the story again, there are Fantasia if you want to change your looks and if you want to make a new char for RP get a level boost on the Mogstation

That's breathtakingly greedy (or ignorant) response for a game that insists on a full sub price. Oh well, their loss, I don't buy single character stuff from the cash shop. Guess I'll stop buying the account wide stuff as well.

[GeminiReed]

Long A: First off, the reason why Viera and Hrothgar can't wear hats right now is the following. We have very standardized specifications when it comes to head gear and the unique design with the long ears on Viera doesn't always meet these specifications. If we allowed every head gear piece, it would lead to clipping or other errors. The unique design of Viera and Hrothgar just prevents us from allowing these pieces, if we want to follow our specifications
Nevertheless, we are aware of player feedback and we are definitely not the kind of dev team that ignores their players feedback. (Healers would like to know your location)
There were a few things we said would be impossible to do, but we worked hard on it and made it possible in the end... I hope to have some good news soon.

I've been doing software development for 30 years now. You don't ignore hard requirements like this and expect to keep your job but that just seems to be par for the course in the games dev niche. I had thought Square was better than this, boy was I wrong.

[Puremallace]

Short A: No
Longer A: There is NewGame+ if you want to play the story again, there are Fantasia if you want to change your looks and if you want to make a new char for RP get a level boost on the Mogstation

Thank god. I have been worried they would change the core fundamental systems of this game to fit people that was to roll alts for the sake of a different look or whatever. Glad they are not wavering from this.