Live Letter Hopes, Expectations, and Concerns

[Deveryn]

There's only one thing that currently interests me and that's if there's going to be a collab between FFXIV and PSO2:NGS announced, considering that the latter has colalbs with video game franchises announced (One of them, Melty Blood, was just announced recently) on their roadmap.

No collabs this expansion. They're doing strictly 14 content.

[Shougun]

Hope Island Sanctuary is good enough that it isn't a complete fire in the forums to which SE will have an uphill struggle on a fiery mountain to redeem, which will be some challenge already since there is a lot of salt and dislike for the current housing system and due to some assumptions / translations many are thinking it will be housing out of the gate.. Meanwhile I hope SE is determined enough to continue to content and expand it, such that many, if not all of us, might see it at some point (now and in the future) a great homely content that serves multiple purposes including abating the great salty legacy that is ward housing.

Which also includes either initially or hopefully not too far into the future, with dev communication, that the content isn't essentially valueless... as I know they said currency, gathering, etc, is all going to be dedicated to that content.. It would be unfortunate if the content was so conservatively designed from affecting the outside world that you could picture it wasn't even in the game. I get trying to avoid the economy crashing issue of Garrison from WoW, but ... hopefully it's not basically "180 issue of WoW".

[rsncra]

maybe has to talk about a certain billboard xD
(yes i want him to recall his "THEY DID WHAT?????" reaction xD)

Balmung being Balmung lol , can't not have it's time of fame lol

[Deveryn]

Hope Island Sanctuary is good enough that it isn't a complete fire in the forums to which SE will have an uphill struggle on a fiery mountain to redeem, which will be some challenge already since there is a lot of salt and dislike for the current housing system and due to some assumptions / translations many are thinking it will be housing out of the gate.. Meanwhile I hope SE is determined enough to continue to content and expand it, such that many, if not all of us, might see it at some point (now and in the future) a great homely content that serves multiple purposes including abating the great salty legacy that is ward housing.

Which also includes either initially or hopefully not too far into the future, with dev communication, that the content isn't essentially valueless... as I know they said currency, gathering, etc, is all going to be dedicated to that content.. It would be unfortunate if the content was so conservatively designed from affecting the outside world that you could picture it wasn't even in the game. I get trying to avoid the economy crashing issue of Garrison from WoW, but ... hopefully it's not basically "180 issue of WoW".

It's not hard to imagine Island Sanctuary functioning similar to bozja and the item cache you have there, which remains exclusive to that content. It sounds like one of those mobile games except you might earn some items to use outside, most likely limited to aesthetics.

They've already announced that they plan to continue to add to it.

If there's a fire on the forums, it was started months ago when people started cooking up theories on what it could be, when Yoshi-P explicitly said not to. Also, nothing is ever good enough for some people. They live to complain and be heard and insult anyone that disagrees.

Balmung being Balmung lol , can't not have it's time of fame lol

They didn't bring the travel system to its knees like LunarCon, so I doubt we'll hear much.

[Shougun]

It's not hard to imagine Island Sanctuary functioning similar to bozja and the item cache you have there, which remains exclusive to that content. It sounds like one of those mobile games except you might earn some items to use outside, most likely limited to aesthetics.

They've already announced that they plan to continue to add to it.

If there's a fire on the forums, it was started months ago when people started cooking up theories on what it could be, when Yoshi-P explicitly said not to. Also, nothing is ever good enough for some people. They live to complain and be heard and insult anyone that disagrees.

Well I mean.. I expect there to be a fire.. XD... Just hope it isn't a complete fire that dissuades SE. Personally I feel the content has the opportunity to have a pretty good future, if players and SE are able to agree on interesting things. Like mini-games, or what have you, skys the limit (within reason and time).

I know they said they'd add onto it but since we don't have a complete picture it's hard to say exactly what that would mean, but also if it's a turd tornado here they might cut back on what they want to do with it.. which would be, imo, unfortunate.

If it was akin to Bozja rewards then there are a lot of valuable things to earn, and bottomless fireworks. So that'd be fine, taking their comment to an extreme negative though would be it is an island to and unto itself sans perhaps a mount or two. Which would be less ideal. Of course there are many potential interpretations, and honestly not too much reason to dwell on them now since we'll all see in better detail soon.

I think I'm just more worried since there was some "it's instanced housing" comments, even from some high-powered people, and due to instance housing / housing as per usual issues... might be people pre-ready for their pitch fork protest. Hoping they have some considerable homely elements initially (like if one might be able to place a cottage with inn room like features), and weird, greater, things might be discussed as time and evolution go.

[Jagick]

I want an open discussion in regards to the planned character customisation changes. I really hope they're not going to double down on some of their bizarre design choices such as refusing to give Highlander men real eyebrows when it has been a fairly common request over the years as far back as ARR.

I'm sorry but it is difficult the data can't handle it. Eyebrows would harm race identity we can't have all races sharing eyebrows.

/s

[LLSmoothJ]

No collabs this expansion. They're doing strictly 14 content.

I thought that it was just in regards to things like Raids/Alliances like the Nier collab. Admittedly it was more of a longshot, but we shall see.

[TaleraRistain]

5. “Spoiler” Content –

Admittedly this is a personal thing of mine, but I do not like it when key battle content like the Trial or the Dungeon are hidden behind “spoilers.” It should be understood that many players who wish to avoid spoilers do not watch live letters, especially those with the trailer, and instead prefer to view summarized versions of the translated slides put together by other members of the community with spoiler content edited out. The only time where I concede this was warranted was in patch 5.3, and given the general expectation of Golbez and the 4 Fiends being this expansion’s trial series I don’t think hiding the boss of the trial is warranted in this case.

On that note, I encourage others to share any points that they hope to see addressed in the coming live letter.

I couldn't disagree with this one more. I've always appreciated the care they take to avoid spoilers while also informing players of details that don't rely on those spoilers during the live letters. It wasn't necessary to give us the last dungeon name to give us some details about it. And the reveal in-game is always a nice surprise, even if things are heavily guessed beforehand. I am perfectly fine if they tell us there's a trial series coming and say we'll have to play things to find out. There is already plenty that dataminers and others spoil, so I'm glad they take care to retain secrets to keep this content special for players.

[DrWho2010]

this kind of thread subject is pointless as you won't be getting what you're looking for. you will get nothing.

[Raoabolic]

this kind of thread subject is pointless as you won't be getting what you're looking for. you will get nothing.

Joke's on you, I was already expecting nothing. At most I hope it's as funny as the 2b Horthgar pic! lol