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

[Kavaskous]

Can you give us more information, perhaps some video, on the Gold Saucer location? Will we see the return of classic mini games from other FF games such as the snowboarding, submarine games, a bike battle mini game, triple triad or more, hopefully also some new games for FFXIV?

If it's not in Ul'dah, there's a major problem - even as a proud Twin Adder Officer, I would agree that Ul'dah is the next thing to an imperial [new] Vegas, Eorzea's City of Sin. Where else should you go to vent your frustrations and you pockets? There's women dancing in the streets, gladiator fights regularly, the location of both Nald's and Thal's Temples reside within the city - Take into account the following:

Nald'thal
Nickname: The Traders Description: Name: Nald'thal {Nahld'-thahl}
Sex: Male
Aspect: Overseer of transactions and the underworld
God of: Commerce
Guardian deity of: Ul'dah
Element: Fire
Month: 10 †
Depiction: A merchant holding a balance
Symbol: The cowry, an ancient shell currency

Parents: n/a
Siblings: brother Oschon
Children: n/a
Other: Nald'thal is the single manifestation of the deific twins Nald and Thal


Game Description: Nald'thal is the overseer of transactions and the underworld, and god of commerce. He commands the element of Fire and is associated with the tenth moon of the Eorzean calendar. Nald'thal is the single manifestation of the deific twins Nald and Thal. He is most often depicted as a discerning merchant holding a balance. His symbol is the cowry, an ancient shell currency.


What better place to empty your pockets than the wonderfully fun Gold Saucer!

Just... make sure you don't wind up owing the Platinum Mirage, or you might get the Hels beat out of you.

[Hiruke]

Are other regions (such as NA/EU) going to be able to get exclusive items like Mog Earrings (from 25th Anniversary Ultimate Box) or Dalamud minion (from Before Meteor OST)? Regardless of stats, etc. it's very troubling to make such items unique to a particular region, since everyone will know about them worldwide.

[Aki]

Will the NA/EU PS3 versions allow input in Japanese like the PC version does?

[Yuuki_Talamara]

what will the people who bought the collectors edition the first time around get? and will it be the same for the people who buy the collectors edition this time around? or will there even BE a collectors edition for ARR?

[Yrusama]

Will there be any FATE's aimed (either primarily or as equals) at gathering and crafting classes?

I'd like to know this as well, and have asked it in earlier live letter threads.

Also, will there be any plans for in-town FATEs (missing child, stray animal, seasonal minigames).

[LlenCoram]

what will the people who bought the collectors edition the first time around get? and will it be the same for the people who buy the collectors edition this time around? or will there even BE a collectors edition for ARR?

Not sure how you could have missed all the talk about it... Link. If you bought CE before, you'll get new digital CE items. That's it.

[Yrusama]

In a MMORPG I have a bit of trouble to get attached to npc's, it's not as if the story could be as good as a single player final fantasy. Going back on my words, maybe as good but it seems the "taking the role of" instead of "following the story of" makes the difference.

Wings of the Goddess got me all choked up. I think we can expect a quality storyline in ARR. But... all we've seen so far is how the land has recovered from the Calamity.

Can we get a preview of how the story will move forward? Perhaps a story trailer?

[Yrusama]

Even though I feel my question won't be answered, No one yet has asked about the animations, but it's a HUGE subject in the forum's since the rebuild. We've "been told" that there we're still animations to transfer from one build to another.

Question: Even though beta phase 3 hasn't started, from the content we seen & from the updates on the blog or this website or gameplay previews, there still isn't that particular bulkiness from 1.0 for the sake of fluidity between animations.

That is the transition between running to standing, jumping to standing/running( that could look à la shadow of the collossus).

Right now it really feels like we play with puppets, wait even puppets have inertia in their movements due to their WEIGHT*

I'd like to know about this as well. It's awkward to watch our beautiful characters pop from one position to another. This is Final Fantasy, not Minecraft.

[Yrusama]

Does announcing the actual release date mean now Yoshida is satisfied with the product? (ARR)

It seems to not leave room for any rework time if beta testers aren't satisfied with the beta phase 3. Or I'm just worrying too much?

I agree, the announcement feels a tad premature when so much is expected to change for Phase 3.

How was the decision for the release date made? Was Yoshi-P holding back until you could see the stability of the servers and UI, or are there other factors that contributed more? Does the team feel that the game is just in a fine-tuning phase that can be carried over until after launch? Is there elbowroom to push the release back if necessary? (I know I'm willing to wait, though I'd prefer not to.)

[Yrusama]

If it's not in Ul'dah, there's a major problem - even as a proud Twin Adder Officer, I would agree that Ul'dah is the next thing to an imperial [new] Vegas, Eorzea's City of Sin. Where else should you go to vent your frustrations and you pockets? There's women dancing in the streets, gladiator fights regularly, the location of both Nald's and Thal's Temples reside within the city - Take into account the following:

Nald'thal
Nickname: The Traders Description: Name: Nald'thal {Nahld'-thahl}
Sex: Male
Aspect: Overseer of transactions and the underworld
God of: Commerce
Guardian deity of: Ul'dah
Element: Fire
Month: 10 †
Depiction: A merchant holding a balance
Symbol: The cowry, an ancient shell currency

Parents: n/a
Siblings: brother Oschon
Children: n/a
Other: Nald'thal is the single manifestation of the deific twins Nald and Thal


Game Description: Nald'thal is the overseer of transactions and the underworld, and god of commerce. He commands the element of Fire and is associated with the tenth moon of the Eorzean calendar. Nald'thal is the single manifestation of the deific twins Nald and Thal. He is most often depicted as a discerning merchant holding a balance. His symbol is the cowry, an ancient shell currency.


What better place to empty your pockets than the wonderfully fun Gold Saucer!

Just... make sure you don't wind up owing the Platinum Mirage, or you might get the Hels beat out of you.

Above the Ceruleum Field would be cool. Like Midgar, having a prosperous upper plate with slums below. At the same time, the Ceruleum Field is nice as is. Wouldn't want to wreck that scenery if it's anything like 1.0.

How many minigames can we expect at the Gold Saucer?