Famitsu posted a similar interview article, pretty much everything is same except I found this one part that wasn't in 4Gamer's interview.
Thought you guys might like this one.

Source: http://www.famitsu.com/news/201308/24038884.html

We see people in Neil (Van Darnus) cosplay but are there any plans to let the players obtain Garleand Empires weapons?

We have Cid who’s from the Empire, and he has knowledge of the Magitek so once the episode with the Empire calms down, I want to work on this. Imperial weapons are popular. However, say we we’re going to get Neil’s weapon out, we need to have a class that can wield that (laugh), so we’ll have to think about that as well.