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

[Rulakir]

Is there anything that can be done about NPC animations stalling dialog/quest progression? It's particularly irritating on daily quests where you can't move on quickly because of the delay of having to wait for the NPCs to stop emoting.

[Zander_Elysium]

This may have been addressed in the past, but is it possible to add hairstyles to glamour plates so we can switch them more easily based on our outfits?

[Thatsrev]

Are there any plans to populate the lower levels of the Noumenon in Old Sharlayan?
It feels kind of bleak looking down the remaining empty levels.
Any chance this location will play another role in the upcoming patches?

[Thatsrev]

Would you consider making fashion accessoires wearable in combat aswell ?

[Thatsrev]

Spoiler here:

After the Garlemald duty which gave me severe PTSD from FFXV's infamous chapter 13 and traveling to Elpis after the start of the final days i was fully expecting a similar timeskip to a world of darkness and i'm glad it didn't happen

[Aquamoons]

Is there any estimate to a Blue Mage update?

[imaginedarc]

Are there any intentions to translate the game into additional languages? I'm specifically asking about a Spanish localization but any information regarding any future localization would be appreciated! ^-^

[SakuraHaruno]

Is one point of tying the Warrior of Light to Azem so closely to provide the opportunity for us to one day play AS Azem in the World Unsundered in a prequel type fashion?

[imaginedarc]

Is there ever going to be an update or expansion of the Grand Companies? Both in general and for squadrons?

I would love to finally become the Twin Adder Champion.

[Redizon]

Question: When are you going to fix the friends list and social features so your player base is better protected from stalkers/persistent harassment?

I have 2 friends now that are being stalked by their ex-partners/friends in-game. This shouldn't be something that anyone has to deal with let alone in Eorzea.

It is unbelievable that unfriending and blacklisting someone does not remove your presence from their list. Apparently this has been addressed before and that no changes were planned because you didn't want it to cause conflict between players when there is a falling out but in all due respect, that's not your problem as the game developer to account for. They are literally being followed across worlds and data centres and your inaction is just leaving many people in similar situations playing in fear, all because you don't want people to know when they've been unfriended.

If you're really adamant about the unfriended party keeping the contact on their list then the easy solution would be to stop all further updates - not showing any name changes, not showing they're online, not showing if they changed world/data centre and character details unobtainable.
The lodestone ID/URL should also change when a name change occurs for the same reason.