Comments from the Devs

[Spider-Dan]

it would be cool if when you talk in linkshell chat you put your hand up to your ear. I've seen that in the cut scenes like you are using the Link shell device.

There'd better be a toggle for this, and it might need to be global (for everyone displaying on your client) and not just for you. Unless you want to see screenshots that look like a train station, with everyone either holding their ear or on the way to holding their ear.

This is to say nothing of the hilarity that would ensue if you had WARs 1-arming their axes in battle while they are hollering at some FC hoochie.

[Fievel]

The question should be why should you need a bahamut weapon if you have a relic weapon?

Because Bahamut weapons are better than relics weapons?

[solracht]

There'd better be a toggle for this, and it might need to be global (for everyone displaying on your client) and not just for you. Unless you want to see screenshots that look like a train station, with everyone either holding their ear or on the way to holding their ear.

This is to say nothing of the hilarity that would ensue if you had WARs 1-arming their axes in battle while they are hollering at some FC hoochie.

I don't actually care for this entire thing, but they have already said they are doing it and that LS chat is included. I'd just prefer that guy's idea instead of having characters visually blahblahing into LS chat.

The question should be why should you need a bahamut weapon if you have a relic weapon?

-Bahamut weapons are supposed to be better than the current relics.
-Given the tiered endgame content and the recent letter, you should probably assume that the future relic trials will be balanced around a group that has gear from a tier below. Whether relics+1 are directly a tier above the Labyrinth is yet to be seen, but to climb to the relic+1 tier you'd still need Bahamut weapons at some point.

There are a lot of small details that could change the dynamics of the tier system (like catch-up systems or hardmodes) but we'll have to wait and see for those. Plus like I said a few pages ago, there's also the chance of SE backpedaling about where the relics fall in the hierarchy, given the dats.

Hopefully the Live Letter clears everything up, QQ

[Jinfire]

Only a matter of time before they implement the system of typing certain words to cause your character to automatically do an emote.

That sounds great, I always liked how in WoW when you typed lol or even haha your character laughed

[Foxer]

^I hate that shit. -_ -

[Elcura]

That sounds great, I always liked how in WoW when you typed lol or even haha your character laughed

That sounds awesome. Dunno how annoying it would be practically especially if someone sucks at typing but...still, conceptually, I like it. Wonder how it would deal with it for the JPs? If you type more than two Ws then shit goes crazy.

[LD]

^I hate that shit. -_ -

I can understand that feeling, but you have to admit the genius of it. It integrates in-game motion into the conversation (assuming you're not using "lol" too flippantly) and it's really smoothly implemented from a UI perspective (no backslash if you don't want to).

[Gulkeeva]

You know what would be better, is they let you specify what words you say, do what emote. I forgot what game did it but it has been done, was kinda neat.

[Lucavi]

The developer quote that started this discussion specifically mentioned /ls chat.

Someone in the OF actually had an okay idea for LS chat though:

That idea is pretty cool and I support it - just not on chocobos. FOCUS ON THE WHEEL, PLEASE!

[Takiwaki]

That idea is pretty cool and I support it - just not on chocobos. FOCUS ON THE WHEEL, PLEASE!

On the wheel?, not the road? remind me not to drive with you lol

[Lucavi]

To be fair, I have a very sexy wheel. So leathery...

[Lokus]

I have a feeling we argued this in this thread before but now an official response:

I was extremely lucky to catch the Localization Team's resident ahriman, Fernehalwes, in the brief 40 second period of free time he has while his work PC boots up.

He explained the following reasons that the team decided to go with the numerical numbering, versus the current Japanese style of -ga, -ra, etc.

First off, having a numbered spell makes it instantly recognizable and understandable. If you're a healer in the heat of battle and your party is dying, and you're looking over your cure spells and see "Curaja" - are you able to recognize what level that is? Is it before cura? After? Where does it fall next to curaga?

Secondly, there are a lot of new spells that are being introduced in FFXIV, that just would not make sense with suffixes like "ra" and "ja" added (Medica, for example). In a self-contained game, where you're sure "this is the full spell list" it's easy to branch out, and finalize the names in specific styles. But when it comes to the ever-evolving MMORPG, you never know when a new spell will be added after a level cap increase. What comes after "za"? Is it really possible that those will work with every spell name?

Thirdly, this is something that was done early on the previous FINAL FANTASY MMO, FFXI.

Hopefully the above makes it a bit clearer on the reasoning for the decision!

tl;dr, ya'll is dum, jp master race.

[Deuce]

Suffixes hard, numbers good.

[Elcura]

Doesn't. Fucking. Matter.

If you have a brain that is. Alternatively, there is the FF FEELZ! thing to consider, which is equally retarded.

[Fievel]

It matters man, it matters.

[Elcura]

I find it funny because they would probably use numbers alongside suffixes anyway.

[Fievel]

We should probably argue about this for the next few pages, sound good?

[Elcura]

We should probably argue about this for the next few pages, sound good?

Well, we could go back to bitching about text triggered emotes. Either way I'm good.

[Gulkeeva]

To be fair, I have a very sexy wheel. So leathery...

Goddammit, Lucavi.

[arus2001]

Auto-emote text shit is annoying. Saying something like, "If Bob was here, he'd laugh at us..." would have me laugh when I have no intention to. If people really want to integrate emotes into their conversations, I'd instead ask for a system where you could type something like, "Hey guys, <laugh> I just heard the funniest joke!" and you'd get the laugh emote, but it wouldn't show in text. Much as people love to mock RPers in MMO, I have a hunch they'd prefer that over auto-emotes, too.