Letter from the Producer LIVE LXVIII: Ask Your Endwalker Questions!

[mckuro]

Hi Yoshi San, would you explain us in detail about Sanctuary Island ? Are we gonna buy it like house? and do you mind to add more Ward/Sub Ward Residential House in 6.1 please?

[KazyEXE]

When are we going to get the trademark *punches fist into palm* emote? I feel like it would have been a perfect capstone reward.

[Eviilll]

Someone mentioned character customization and graphics engine which is a good question however outside of the engine mechanics, are you planning to improve shader and texture quality.

I am a legacy player that was playing during the time of your overhaul and seen from release how your game evolved, love what you did to it but I think it's time that we look into doing this soon. I'm not going to say you should take such an such direction because obviously 99.99% of us have not even worked on your game engine but, if there was a way to implement DX12 alone, that's an average 10% performance increase. If you can also implement the same where you have an option of running DX9 and 11 by toggling on the game launcher window and have one for high quality, that would be enough for us with the improvement of shaders and texture quality. That way your concern on older machines being able to run wouldn't be that worry some. Another thing you can do is make the "high quality" option an optional download and make a confirmation that you need an X amount of space. if you find away to validate equipment via game launcher looking at the DxDiag.exe, this would be the ideal route for hardware validation.

I know it's a lot to ask but some of us who hope you're considering it, you can shed some light in regards.

Thank you,

[Rulakir]

The dialog options in EW seemed extremely limited and often didn't reflect how some players thought or felt about a given character or situation, are there plans to add more diverse responses to the WoL that would allow for better expression of the player?

[Feronar]

Back in Shadowbringers, healing barriers were added to the health bars in the party list, but not to any other health bars. Can you please add healing barriers to all the other health bars (Player, target, target of target, nameplates, focus target, alliance raid parties, target enmity list, etc? I have included a mockup below:

[Scarletelf]

With 6.1 implementing new housing purchasing system and new wards, are there plans on updating the furnishing system as well?

For example such as allowing all furnishings to be placeable on lofts, or implement a “save layout” option for housing decorations so we can have multiple housing layouts we can switch between.

[Josebm]

Thank you for all your hard work, this expansion is truly exceptional!
1 - Can we get an update to glamour? They way it is right now is acceptable, however, the 400 item limit is very low, so low in fact that it becomes annoying to get a new piece of glamour you want because you have to go take one out from the dresser.
2 - Are there any plans to update the textures in the game? XIV 2.0 will be 10 next year and it is already looking dated, although it would take significant resources would it be possible to consider a graphical update to the game?
3 - Can we please get eyebrows for male highlanders?
4 - With the Au'Ra horns being as bulky as they are, how are they able to get a good night sleep!?

[Resilla]

Re-enter the instance of Beyond the Stars of the level 90 Endwalker quest

Would it be possible to re-enter the instance Beyond the Stars of the Endwalker quest where we fight Zenos just as we are able to re-enter The Royal Menagerie after MSQ completion ?

[kevin_satron]

A lot of new players are struggling or just can't get into FFXIV because how 'boring' or 'slow' the game is at the beginning, and i feel like there should be something you guys can do with that.

Will there be a rework or some big changes coming for A Realm Reborn content? like story (pacing), difficulty, gearing, leveling, skills (potency creep) and dungeon reworks (for example Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium)? Or even adding voice acting for questline like Trial and Alliance Raid (especially Crystal Tower Allliance Raid, since it's very important to the story later)?

[Wingale]

Within Endwalker patch are there gonna be like collab event (FFXIV x FFXV, FFXIV x Monster Hunter)? Because with this year, there're 2 games aniversary event, Kingdom Hearts and FFVII. It would be great if there's collab event again!