Letter from the Producer LIVE Part II (10/25/2011)

[Hyan]

Quite the drastic move to remove the cap altogether!

[Croy]

Well thats awesome, I'll go look into it then.


Q: Will dragoons have a wyvern?
A: After 2.0, we are thinking about having them use their breath ability when you jump. However, as I answered in the interviews, I think you all really would like to fight alongside a wyvern pet. With a dragoon having a pet wyvern, battle balance will be necessary for both master and pet, and as a result the dragoon itself might become a bit weaker. We would like to hear your feedback on this before we make any final decisions.

Q: On the schedule "player room and private area" is TBD. What is that about?
A: As for the housing, I think it is important that an MMO player has his/her own private area. We are still planning this but something like having bonus when logging out from the private area would be nice. The resource work for them is done so implementation may not be too far away.

Q: Will the level cap be removed before the release of 2.0?
A: This is not planned until patch 1.21. It won’t be good to have a huge gap in players’ level until 2.0 goes live, so we would like to carefully weigh our options.

I think it's kinda weird they are going to increase the level cap pre-2.0.

Probably to make it possible for current lvl 50 players to be able to level up with the new jobs as well as reintroduce some of the recently removed items as higher tier stuff. Honestly they really needed to up the level cap soon if nothing but because it gives people something to do that already have a ton of lvl 50 classes already. Just put it at lvl 60 and don't change it till a while after 2.0

[Burningthought]

Apparently Wada came in talking about a discount, because they want a lot of players to be able to play. Looks like nothing specific was mentioned.

[Burningthought]

Probably to make it possible for current lvl 50 players to be able to level up with the new jobs as well as reintroduce some of the recently removed items as higher tier stuff. Honestly they really needed to up the level cap soon if nothing but because it gives people something to do that already have a ton of lvl 50 classes already. Just put it at lvl 60 and don't change it till a while after 2.0

The job system is going to be implemented in 1.21 too iirc. So that'd give people an incentive to level other stuff too since you'll need to meet the quest requirements in order to obtain jobs.

[Corrderio]

Hopefully a discount on the monthly fee

[miokomioko]

F: lets call him since he's there waiting. Wada youichi.

W: Thank you for supporting; as Yoshida mentioned to make it a quality game we have to ask for payment.
W: wanted to talk abotu payment, there are lots of things coming but in order to make this happen we ask for
W: we are looking into discount to get as much players possible.

Y: We want to get as much players so we want to look into discount

W: You guys are showing lots of info but whats this?

Y: It's time so that it for today

W: what thats it?

[Crab_Cake]

F: lets call him since he's there waiting. Wada youichi.

W: Thank you for supporting; as Yoshida mentioned to make it a quality game we have to ask for payment.
W: wanted to talk abotu payment, there are lots of things coming but in order to make this happen we ask for
W: we are looking into discount to get as much players possible.

Y: We want to get as much players so we want to look into discount

W: You guys are showing lots of info but whats this?

Y: It's time so that it for today

W: what thats it?

Poor Wada. This happened to him last time (click) (click the CC button to turn on subtitles).

Wada comes in at around 8 minutes and they told him to leave just a minute later .

[Burningthought]

I'm pretty excited for the Gold saucer type stuff after player housing. Hopefully some lonely soul on the dev team can come up with a design good enough for Yoshi to okay so we can get some triple triad ingame.

[Hyan]

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[Marihoki]

Some of the animations shown plus some pictures.

[Woozer]

Hmm It'll be interesting to see how they retcon or rework the lore behind CNJ and THM to support their changes. Oh well, lots of interesting stuff at least.

[Burningthought]

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They didn't mention anything specific as far as I could tell. Also your sig is mesmerizing.

[tol]

I thought Yoshi said since he was in Paris promoting 2.0 that the class change notes would be delayed a week?

[Hyan]

Yar, I thought he meant we would see them soon after the letter ;;

It's holiday in japan though, so friday at the earliest I guess.

[Gokulo]

Bah, forgot it's so early today, missed again :<
Jumping is indeed high, but I'm surprised how fine it looks in general, no lock etc.

[Hyan]

I'm glad they have something more planned for chocobos, having stuff like ahrimans and goobbues as mounts at the same time would trivialize them otherwise imo.

The potential for complete BST badassery is pretty high up there now!

[Narol]

Jumping is indeed high, but I'm surprised how fine it looks in general, no lock etc.

At a glance, it looks like the jump on Doomspike II or Seismic Shock or something (just without the "hit the ground with your weapon" part at the end). Though yes, the fact that it doesn't lock you is awesome.

[Alkar]

Where's Dan and his THM=WHM now?
Lots of good info as usual, it's surprising to see this much coming so early compared to the pre-release of vanilla XIV.

[TacoTaru]

Ugh, not a fan of the way jumping looks at all. Other than that, a pretty good letter. Wish they would have elaborated a bit more on what the new level cap will be and what the discount will be though.

[Hyan]

Yoshi said that he denied that jumping animation because it was way too high. But it gives us the general idea.