Duplicate Questions in the Questions for the Producer Live Letter Thread

[Matsume]

The first question in each section is the first person to ask the question, the following duplicate uestions are in chronological order.

Having read some of the questions, and noting that half of them have already been answered in past letters/posts, this thread now reminds me of:
Homer Simpson - "Are you really the head of the Kwik E Mart"
Head of the Kwik E Mart "Yes"
Homer Simpson -"Really?"
Head of the Kwik E Mart "Yes"
Homer Simpson -"Really, really??"
Head of the Kwik E Mart "Yes. Three questions are up. Thank you come again."

• If another player already asked a question you agree with, simply click the "Like!" button instead of re-posting the question

Retainer Tasks

Can you give us more information on retainer tasks? I am especially interested in more information on retainer gathering!

There has been mention of levelling up retainers. How will this be done and what will be the costs and benefits of doing it?

PVP

Can you give us more information on PvP frontlines and arena? In what ways will PvP be "meaningful"? Will their be level brackets?

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

Weather Effects

Will ARR be featuring Dynamic Weather Effects such as thunder and lightning, storms, gale force winds etc?

I'm curious about snow or rain weather effect.
Will the snow covered trees and waterfall around Black Shroud area have a visual frozen display or just have another snow effect like in previous version?

HNMs

How will HNM's be implemented in ARR? It would be nice to get more information on the topic so that we can finally end the speculation.

How will Notorious Monsters be handled in A Realm Reborn? Roaming NMs will be removed in favor of F.A.T.E. ?

Can you explain how FATE and HNMs work so we finally end that debate? Will there be NMs outside of FATE? What can we expect for respawn times on NMs OUTSIDE of FATE?

Arcanist

Can we see some gameplay footage and analysis of Arcanist in the live letter?

Arcanist was revealed the better part of a year ago. Can we see some in game footage of arcanist/summoner?

Summoner

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

Will the summoner job be available at launch?

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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?

Arcanist was revealed the better part of a year ago. Can we see some in game footage of arcanist/summoner?

Musketeer

Are there any plans yet for when Musketeer will make it into the game? Will the Musketeer guild still be in the new Limsa if it's implementation has been indefinitely delayed?

What are the plans for musketeers and their guild? Will the guild still be in Limsa Lominsa in ARR or possibly added later with the class?

Gold Saucer

Are there any updates to the Gold Saucer type area that you can pass along, such as location, types of minigames, etc.?

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?

Name Changes

Will we able to change our old character's name?

I asked same question last time but...will we get our one time name change option?

Spiritbinding

The new spiritbonding system is a hot hot topic on the forums! Can you give us more details on how our equipment becomes bound to our characters?

Can you please explain the rational behind adding the spirit binding system? I have noticed there are some players passionately against this system, if you explain why you think it's important it may alleviate some concerns.

Level Sync

And another one, can you confirm is Level sync will be finally present in ARR? If so, will we be able to test it on the beta?

Will the planned level sync mechanic be purely optional or enforced? Can you give us any more details on how this will work, including when it may be used and its effects on our characters and our characters' gear?

Loot System

Could we get information on the Need, Greed, and Pass system being implemented for ARR. Will it be available for testing during any of the Betas?

Can we have more specifics on the tokenised loot system? In 1.0 I would often repeat 1 piece of content 100s of times just trying to get one specific item from the list of all possible rewards from that content. How will tokens alleviate this?

[Pseudopsia]

Spirit binding questions are two different questions, they are not duplicates.

just because they are on the same subject doesn't mean they are duplicates.

[Matsume]

Spirit binding questions are two different questions, they are not duplicates.

just because they are on the same subject doesn't mean they are duplicates.

Essentially they are both asking for details on the new spiritbinding concept.

[Pseudopsia]

Essentially they are both asking for details on the new spiritbinding concept.

First one is asking how gear is bound to your character. The second is asking why the system is added in the first place.

[Matsume]

First one is asking how gear is bound to your character. The second is asking why the system is added in the first place.

Don't parse semantic pedantics with me, please.

The first question is asking for more details period. Just because she put "how" in the question doesn't mean that's what she was getting at- everyone knows that gear is spiritbound after gaining a certain amount of exp with that piece of gear equiped and henceforth souldbound.

Why do you even want a justification for SE implementing this feature? Do you honestly think you will be able to convince them otherwise?

[Pseudopsia]

Don't parse semantic pedantics with me, please.

The first question is asking for more details period. Just because she put "how" in the question doesn't mean that's what she was getting at- everyone knows that gear is spiritbound after gaining a certain amount of exp with that piece of gear equiped and henceforth souldbound.

Why do you even want a justification for SE implementing this feature? Do you honestly think you will be able to convince them otherwise?

You're obviously a troll if you can't figure out they are two different questions.

And you're not the judge to determine a good question from a bad one.

[Babydoll]

I was referring to the one time name change. Dunno if the other guy meant that or if we can name change whenever.

[Lady]

The retainer questions aren't duplicate either. One's asking about leveling retainers, the other is about gathering with retainers.

[Matsume]

I was referring to the one time name change. Dunno if the other guy meant that or if we can name change whenever.

Don't be dense, his question is crystal clear - besides this question has already been nswered.

The retainer questions aren't duplicate either. One's asking about leveling retainers, the other is about gathering with retainers.

Leveling retainers and getting them to gather for you go hand in hand. Hypothetically speaking, if Yoshi P were to pick the first question about leveling rtainers to discuss in his live letter do you honestly think he would do so without explaining how leveling your retainer is linked to retaienrs performing tasks? please...

[Lady]

Leveling retainers and getting them to gather for you go hand in hand. Hypothetically speaking, if Yoshi P were to pick the first question about leveling rtainers to discuss in his live letter do you honestly think he would do so without explaining how leveling your retainer is linked to retaienrs performing tasks? please...

I think there is always a chance that something NOT ASKED will NOT BE ANSWERED.

But I do appreciate you creating a thread that shows me what questions will be asked so I don't have to ask them. ^_^