Comments from the Devs

[Siatdiat]

Well that came off wrong. I eat and play at the same time now and then, but generally don't, mainly because I am kind of picky abut my stuff and don't like getting food all over the place in my den, or grease/food in my KB.

[Takiwaki]

Hey guys!, should we just trust Yoshi P? ...

[Manako]

Yeah was in the middle of a raid and hubby made breakfast, cold eggs are gross. More of an observation than a complaint, was easy to eat and play with controller in 1.0 because you could switch to keyboard without entering a menu screen. Just means I'll have to like.. plan in advance (oh noes.)

[Sephiroth]

Been doing my research on housing tonight. Something many people may be forgetting is that when housing is implemented it will only be free company housing. Individual housing will come later. Considering free company housing won't be until the first major patch we could be waiting a while for individual housing.

[Vuitton]

Yeah was in the middle of a raid and hubby made breakfast, cold eggs are gross. More of an observation than a complaint, was easy to eat and play with controller in 1.0 because you could switch to keyboard without entering a menu screen. Just means I'll have to like.. plan in advance (oh noes.)

I wonder if that can be made into a macro and placed onto the hot bar for easy switching.

[Jamison]

I wonder if that can be made into a macro and placed onto the hot bar for easy switching.

I made that suggestion on the forums, but with 895 posts in the thread who knows.

I do believe someone mentioned that either numbers, or control/shift+number combos still worked even while in gamepad mode. So it may be possible to just set the controller down and still play without too much trouble.

[Deadgye]

I really want a beta forum thread about this now lol.

"THIS IS WHY FFXIV WILL FAIL! I CANNOT EAT WHILE PLAYING!! YOSHI-P MAKE THIS GAME EASIER TO PLAY WHILE EATING!"

This was one of the bestest things about ffxi; You could play with one hand pretty easily. Eating during dynamis and exp parties without actually demonstrating a noticeable drop in performance was olev.

[Churchill]

Targetting was the only issue I had with the controller, was pretty pleased. The only issue is that its difficult to eat while playing with it because both hands are occupied, but then can just switch to keyboard mode.

hahahahaha

[Churchill]

Eating during the beta is a pain in the ass because there's no cooldown between raid runs. You pop out and the party wants to go straight back in. Those 15 minute downtimes in V1 sure did have their uses.

Not really

[Sephiroth]

Not really

Yes really.

[Izzy]

Yes really.

Having the game set aside a 15 minute break to piss/eat for you because you lack the discipline/willpower to do it for yourself is not a feature.

It's like an IRL fatigue system.

[Kurokikaze]

Yes really.

Going to agree with Izzy. Ask the group for a quick break and stop asking for stupid lockouts that do nothing more than cockblock people that are going to spam the content anyways.

[Sephiroth]

Since when did "ask for stupid lockouts that do nothing more than cockblock people that are going to spam the content anyways". It seems like you're having difficulty reading what I said.

I never said it was a good thing, I said they had their uses and as I definitely took pisses or food breaks during that down time I made use of the time to do things that would otherwise hold up a group. It's far better than going AFK mid raid. But as I don't need 15 minutes down time between each one I don't think it's a good idea. At the end of the day though if you're doing an hour long raid with 8 people you're going to want at least 5 minutes between each raid for people to do necessities, but that's not something the game needs to enforce.

[Raldo]

Scrapped what I posted due to NDA, so I'll just replace this post wiiiith

Yes, please don't convince SE to re-add stupid lockout timers. If people need breaks between runs, they'd better speak up.

[Stanislaw]

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/blog/post/269

Off the Record
April 08, 2013

!!!
http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/na/as...00x433-341.jpg

/phew

Just some more doodling on the company walls...or is it!?

Ahem.
Now that’s out of my system, it’s time to move on to some real updates (...or are they!? Okay... I’ll stop now).

In addition to getting the game ready for the upcoming phase 3, it appears the development team is also preparing for another marketing blitz...and that means trailers...and that means we’re back in the recording studio! Lines for the English trailer were taken in Los Angeles, while those for the Japanese trailer were taken in our private studio here at Square Enix headquarters.

I can only assume from all the bottled water, that this talented actress will be playing a drowning sahagin.
http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/na/as...00x298-343.jpg

Actor: “Help! Let me out of this box! I can’t breathe! Help!”
Director: Nailed it.
Engineer: Had some equipment trouble. Can we get that again?
http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/na/as...00x298-345.jpg

As always, sound director Masayoshi Soken spent most of his time rambling on about knee-socks...
http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/jp/bl...20130409_1.jpg

And this is me, right before recording my big part!
http://rss.finalfantasyxiv.com/na/as...00x534-347.jpg

(And by “me,” I mean “not me.”)

Fernehalwes

[Agito]

The drowning sahagin part gave me a good laugh.

[arus2001]

Is it wrong I skimmed past "Viangaa" and thought I read "Vagina"?

[Waraji]

Is it wrong I skimmed past "Viangaa" and thought I read "Vagina"?

Yes, very wrong, you should feel bad.

[Lucavi]

This was one of the bestest things about ffxi; You could play with one hand pretty easily. Eating during dynamis and exp parties without actually demonstrating a noticeable drop in performance was olev.

When most of the class play revolves around waiting for TP while auto-attacking, yeah, 1-handed play is pretty freakin easy.

I suppose it is what it is. They're still making bank off of it.

[Grey Jorildyn]

I am so glad they got rid of that "build TP from melee to fire WS" bullshit in FFXIV. Of course their current stamina-based system needs some tweaking still but when we see the long-term plan I'm sure it'll be less of a problem. We've already talked about that boring topic enough imo.