Ask Your Questions for Letter from the Producer LIVE, Part V!

[hrdndv]

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!

[ydp002]

Could you tell us more about the train system? Are they connected to all major city or any new city in the future?

[Grayvon]

Will male Highlanders have the option to have eyebrows?

[Gawen]

could you tell us about how you think to implement PVP contents? FFXI was really poor of it

[Kule]

If possible would you show footage of you controlling your character with mouse and keyboard using FFXIV ver1.0 control scheme. It was said that this option would be added for us M+K users instead of the 'global mmo' strafing style.

[Lasada]

With PVP content. Will you be separating the pvp skills from the pve skills?

ie: lancer has true thrust. True thrust does 192(X variable number) damage to monster targets and 192(Y variable number) damage to player targets. This allows tweaking to happen to the skills on 2 sides, meaning pvp and pve can be balanced separately and players don't have to feel punished if they pvp and are hit with a pve nerf, or vice versa.
As a result if players are doing ok against monsters, but they feel they are doing too much against players. You can reduce the Y variable number only and leave X where it is.

[Lasada]

With regards to the Gold Saucer(or however you wish to name it) area. Will fan favorite mini games be making a return? Possibly with little twists? I know that, I for one, really loved the submarine mini game along with the bike racing mini game, many others enjoyed the snowboarding game. While motorbikes may not be as prevalent in FFXIV (Although they might become so if ARR dictates it) Why not revisit the bike mini game while riding a chocobo? Would a magitek submarine work for a sub game?

[KaiserDrill]

Arcanist was revealed the better part of a year ago. Can we see some in game footage of arcanist/summoner? Alot of us are waiting patiently for our pet job, but we still know next to nothing about it. Iirc yoshi said something about showig the auto attack in the next live letter, so im really hoping he keeps his word. Bottom line : can we get some in game footage and a concept of how arcanist/summoner will play? Please its been the better part of a year with nothing but concept art

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

How do you respond to criticism from those that believe the PS3 hardware is holding back the developers from adding features such as additional hairstyles.

After 10 years FFXI has finally dropped support for PS2 and now is able to perform critical overhauls to systems such as the UI. Which were previously impossible due to 'PS2 limitations'

What assurance can you give that FFXIV will not suffer the same fate ?

[Lavados]

I would like to know more about housing. I know way back when, In Ultima Online when you bought a house you were able to give certain people "Permissions". Like for example if you were in the same guild, you could set up chests that only a few people would have access to. And then another for like community. I was curious if it was going to be similar.