Producer Live Letter V questions - already answered.

[Zantetsuken]

Its that time again...

Looking through the list of questions in the Producer Live Section, I notice that many people are asking about things that we already have info on.

Examples:

Will the summoner job be available at launch?

No, it will not. likely within the first year though.

Will moogles be present in A Realm Reborn in any capacity other than mail carriers?

Yes. The existing Primal battles - Including the Moogle battle - will exist in ARR, though likely altered from their current form.

Will it be possible for Disciples of the Hand to craft furniture to use in A Realm Reborn's housing?

Yes, it has been stated from the first reveal of the housing system that this was the plan.

Will the appearance change and remodeling of our old characters be available during phase 4 or will it be enabled at release?

Technically, not answered about the beta part, but our one-time character remake will be available from launch until around 6 months after release.

Will NPC's have dialogue? Not just blurps you read, but real voice acting? And not just a few key characters, but all of them? I just detracts from the game to not hear voices. They could all speak Japanese and I would be happy!

No, generic NPCs will not receive voice-overs. The work required to do so would cause an unacceptable delay in patch and update releases.

Will there be more of an emphasis of content on the way to cap rather than the current "race to cap" mentality? I'm concerned that the vast majority of content will be condensed to the last 5 levels as opposed to over all 50 levels.

Partly answered.. From the beginning, Yoshi-P has stated that he wants leveling to be a small part of the game, and he wants to focus most development time on endgame. However, considering that ARR will have a quest/mission based leveling path, there will be plenty of content on the way to the cap, at least for your 1st character.

Are there any plans to adopt more than one job per class?

It has been stated that the job system was initially designed with the option to have multiple jobs per class.



***most links to this info can be found >>here <<

Anyone who wants to post a question about ARR should check the above link first to learn much of what has already been confirmed.

Also, let's try to keep the question forum clean and please READ the existing questions so we don't get redundant posts.

[Zantetsuken]

If anyone needs examples of smart, useful, and informed questions, these are all very good:

Besides Arcanist, will any other new classes be available at the official launch of ARR?

Could you tell us more about the summoner job? Will we have a personal pet, or will the pet appear as attack animation then disappear (Yuna in dissidia)? Can we see some pet artwork or screenshots?

What does yoshi-p think about treasure chests in final fantasy ? I always liked exploring the world's of classic final fantasy to find all the treasure chests hidden in the world. In online final fantasy most treasure chest just appear from monsters or in instance raids.
I want to explore the world to find the treasure chests like classic final fantasy.

Can you please give us some information on how fishing will work in ARR?

Will ARR be playable on the PS4?
This will have a great impact on player-base if the PS4 is released in the next year, due to people trading in their PS3s to buy a new console.

Will guardian/nameday have any effect on our character or is it just for RP ?

Will there be anything for the PSVita such as cross-play or remote-play? Not a standalone Vita version, but something that works with the PS3 version.

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is the only MMO to my knowledge without a stealthy assassin type class available for play. Are there any plans to implement an Assassin / Ninja like class that offers this style of gameplay anytime soon ?

Titan, Odin, Ramuh and Shiva have been announced via concept art, through the "End of an Era" and "A dawn to a new Beginning" trailers and the official Final Fantasy XIV Blog. Will all 4 of these Primals be available at launch? Or soon after?

Can you tell us more about the following locations? (shown in concept art)

Question#10
Will I be able to draw on my map and place markers?

Are there plans to have Final Fantasy ARR or future FF in 3D?

**I hope so... FFXIV was amazing to play in 3D -- although, I believe it was Nvidia who created the 3DVision patch for 1.0**

[Firon]

Zan just to note I think they mentioned a while back that there would be chest in Open world for gathers to find.

[Pwnagraphic]

There were quite a few questions that were answered months ago.. I guess not everyone checks for news obsessively like we do.

Spfft.. those people are losers.

[strallaalaa]

all i really want to know about is large scale events and low drop rate items.

[HarukoD]

Could you find the link answering my question? I've failed to find it myself despite being used to searching for such things.

Also, although it was initially designed so that you could have multiple jobs, doesn't mean they plan to implement it.. Especially during the building stages of a game, those things can change quite easily ^^.

[Technyze]

I dont believe TERA has a stealthy assassin class ;o?

[Matsume]

Great post Zantetsuken, thanks for taking the time to do this.

I'll be adding it to the introduction of my Categories of Questions for the Letter to the Producer LIVE, Part 5 thread., If you don't mind.

[Colino]

They've already confirmed that they are working on being able to draw and put markers on maps, so you can respond to that one as well.

[Len]

Will moogles be present in A Realm Reborn in any capacity other than mail carriers?

I'd very much like my own pet moogle.

I like how you think you're dispensing some grand truth to me.

The moogle primal battle was implemented in version 1.0, and would obviously not be considered a new role for moogles, even if altered in some way.