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PAX East 2017 Community Q&A TL;DR

Full transcript here

Video On Demand here (panel is 00:18:45 - 01:12:30)

Recap of Stormblood features:

New story: antagonists Garlean Empire and Zenos yae Galvus

New areas: Ala Mhigo/Doma/Other Far Eastern Locales

2 new jobs: Red Mage and Samurai

New level cap: 70

Battle system refinement

New gear and crafting recipes

Expanded exploration missions: Eureka

New beast tribes and primals

Increased inventory capacity

Updated PC minimum spec requirements

End of PS3 support

Swimming & Diving

8-man raid: Interdimensional Rift - Omega: The Bend of Time

24-man raid: Return to Ivalice

i280 Diadem weapon PSA:

TL;DR: “You all need to calm down a little bit.”

Getting one is like winning the jackpot in Vegas with a quarter you found on the ground outside

Yoshi-P still thinks Anima weapons are the best because you can customise them to your liking

Reiterates that he wants everyone to calm down

Full PSA transcript here

Q&A (22 questions):

Cleric stance: Still in Stormblood, but Yoshi-P wants healers to focus on healing first, and only DPS once all healing is taken care of.

Weekly item limit in Dun Scaith and Alexander Savage: Will be lifted soon.

Cruise Chaser mount: May possibly be looked into.

Doma and Ala Mhigo lost to Garleans because they only had DPS: That’s why they need Eorzeans to tank and heal for them!

Sharlayan aetherometer glamour item: Maybe if we actually go to Sharlayan homeland - “6.0? 7.0?”

Healer job balance: Question-asker said people prefer AST and SCH because of their buffs and utility. Yoshi-P wants people to trust him to balance it correctly.

(Q) “[AST] has the same potency as [WHM].”

(A) “Currently, yeah.”

Eternal Bonding updates: Planned for 4.1 or 4.2.

DoL/H in 4.0: Action skills will be adjusted for the new cap of 70. No new DoL/H classes in Stormblood.

Krile Mog Station outfit: Being worked on.

Seasonal Event Instances: Will be reprised, but not for All Saints’ Wake again.

Enochian Changes: Not everything about it is final, but it will be a permanent buff. Please stay tuned for more information.

Obscure Stormblood content: Lots of Kugane can be climbed. It’s tricky, but you should try to get up high.

Non-Responsive Customer Support: 

The question-asker's account completely disappeared for no apparent reason

They couldn’t get through to support to ask about it - “no one picks up the phone”

Yoshi-P personally promised to talk to the community and service department heads about it, as they were at PAX East

Question-asker was told to come to the front at the end of the panel

Male Bunny Outfit Progress: Hyur and Roegadyn are finished; rest are on hold due to Stormblood. Yoshi-P thinks the Hyur one is sexy.

Orchestrion iPod: Good idea, but difficult technically.

Raid Tier Gear Set Bonuses: No plans, but they’ll consider it.

More Lore for Existing Clans (e.g. Duskwight): Stormblood will focus on some of the existing cultures, but can’t confirm which one(s). Mention lore team may wish to produce second lore book, but no confirmation.

Armour and weapon display in housing: Confirmed for 4.X series.

Diving log: Some “travel log” entries may or may not be underwater.

Greater amount of challenging content: Not really possible unless they doubled the development team in size. But they’ll try to produce more for people who clear the raids and are bored.

Mentor programme expansion in Stormblood: Easy to do technically. They’ll look into it.

New Tank Job in Stormblood: Hard no - “I’m gonna die!” Play Stormblood first, then ask about new jobs.

North America data centre upgrade

Since launch of ARR, Square Enix took on challenge of overseas data centres

Want to provide best service possible with increase of inventory and armoury chest

North America data centres will be moved to “facility that has the latest equipment”

Planned for middle of May, before Stormblood release

Watch official forums for more details such as what kind of preparation is required, what the actual dates are going to be, and why they had to do this

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i280 Diadem Weapons PSA from Yoshi-P

Yoshi-P, director and producer of FFXIV; Matt, FFXIV assistant community director; Aimi, FFXIV live panel translator.

I just wanted to mention, so… it's been only about three days since the patch content was released, and I see some of you freaking out, but you all need to calm down a little bit. (audience laughter, audience member whoops)

It's not something you can obtain so easily.

(he holds up one thumb) So you'd have to go to the Diadem, of course, and then you'd have to start an exploration mission…

(he holds up thumb and forefinger, two) And then emergency mission triggers…

(he holds up three fingers) And then you have to participate in it… and then clear the raid…

(he holds up four fingers, Aimi points finger at desk) And then be lucky enough to be the one that's chosen for that item drop…

and even if that item drops, you're not sure if that's going to be for the appropriate job… (audience laughter)

plus it has random parameters! (Aimi mimes multiple lines of text. Yoshi-P and Aimi share look of 'what can you do')

So if you can imagine, you go to the casinos in Las Vegas… (audience laughter) And as you're walking to the casinos, you just so happen to notice a quarter on the ground. And then you take that quarter and put it into the slot machine. And pull the jackpot! That's how rare it is! (audience laughter, Matt nodding)

But yeah, I just wanted to say… just take your time and enjoy the content. It's something you can be very ambitious on, and it's where your dream content is going to be in, so…

But it seems that rare occasion… (Aimi peers out into audience, smiling) did happen to certain lucky fellows out there! But I still believe that the anima weapons at level 275, and you can set your parameters and make it your weapon, are the strongest ones available. But there may be some players out there who want to have this emergency mission trigger, and they go in and try to get as many FATEs to happen, but I think… it's pointless to try and just focus in on that; you might as well enjoy the content that is available, move on to the next, and then you might happen to run into an emergency mission, so just take your time and please enjoy the content.

(he makes hushing motions with one hand; Aimi mirrors with both) And once again, y'all need to calm down! (audience laughter, applause)

- FFXIV @ PAX East 2017 - Yoshida Q&A

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19/02/17 Live Letter TL;DR:

Q&A

Butt sliders: no

Increasing garden item slots: maybe later

Eos or Selene recovering position after knockback: do it yourself!

Rhythm game in Gold Saucer: maybe (probably not)

Remove racial restrictions for hairstyles: yes for some, not all

Remove racial restrictions for hempen sets: difficult technically

Repeating MSQ fights: difficult technically. Roll an alt

3.0 EX primals too easy, what about 4.0?: accessiblity of content is more important to them

Krile outfit on mogstation: would be expensive to make

More Hildibrand trials?: probably not. Hildibrand may or may not reappear in 4.X

In-game/official DPS parser: hard no

PS4 Pro patch: in progress

Keeping flowers in pots: planned for 3.5X

Umbrellas as a vanity item: considering adding as a mount

PotD across data centre: in progress, but cross server alliance raids first

/tells across data centre: in progress, as are linkshells, free companies, and friends lists

3.55a news

Live on Tuesday, 28th February

Anima weapon story quests - “easy!”

Zhloe Aliapoh - story quests for crafters and gatherers

Proto Ultima battle

The Feast

new maps

sudden death to resolve draws

new items and adjustments

season 3 ending / season 4 pre-season so people can get used to new map before ranking begins

Items:

Adjustments to Sophic and Demon Lanner drop rates

Garo Gear added to Calamity Salvager

FanFest gear codes redeemable

3.55a because Diadem isn’t ready for release yet. They’re very sorry, but there’s a bug they couldn’t fix in time. Will be in 3.55b

3.55b release planned anywhere between March 7th - 14th

Constant stream of content between 3.55 and 4.0

MSQ continuation in 3.56

Guinness World Records

Final Fantasy 14 has longest end credits in an MMO video game (1 hour 38 minutes)

Final Fantasy 14 has the highest number of original pieces of music in a video game (384 original compositions)

Final Fantasy series is the most prolific role-playing game series (87 titles)

Full(ish) transcript in my Frankfurt FanFest document!

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Frankfurt Keynote TL;DR:

Samurai confirmed for melée pure DPS, uses Striking gear

Also liberating Doma as well as Ala Mhigo

Yugiri and Gosetsu will play major MSQ roles

New 8-man raid: Interdimensional Rift Omega  - The Bend of Time

New Alliance raid: Return to Ivalice

New City: Kugane, upon the island of Hingashi

New Field Areas: Othard continent. The Ruby Sea, Yanxia, Azim Steppe previewed

New Beast Tribe: Kojin. Live in Ruby Sea (underwater); believe in "kami"; collect artefacts; worship new FFXIV-exclusive Primal: Susano, Lord of the Revel

New Dungeons: one previewed was ship graveyard (preview vid should be online)

New Housing Area: Shirogane, upon Hingashi. Won't be open upon launch so people can enjoy the new content before focussing on getting a house.

New Housing Features: moving-house feature; doubling housing item limit; adding many more Doman-style furnishings

New Themesong Information: track title is "Revolutions", sung by Susan Calloway

Launch Date (still tentative): 20 June, 2017 

You can find my full transcript (with pics) here! I’ll also be transcribing the PLL tomorrow on the same document, sleep permitting; please look forward to it.

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FFXIV “I Just Got Online And Have No Idea What’s Going On” Starter Kit:

keynote TL;DR

keynote full transcript

keynote slides

new addition to the Stormblood trailer

full media kit images

press conference transcript

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@cogflox

#not much in this but still neat #what's with all the patches... 3.55a 3.55b 3.56???

Hi I know this was probably rhetorical but !!

3.55a and 3.55b are because they initially wanted to put Diadem in 3.55, but they had a really bad bug that they can’t fix in time for the release date:

Yoshi-P: And now I have to tell you why it's 3.55a and not just 3.55. So you notice something maybe missing here… the exploratory missions, the Diadem? It was all ready to go, and then we had this bug… and we couldn't fix it in time. (bows his head to his desk in apology) Audience member: (shouts) "It's okay!" Yoshi-P: So on the 28th, as planned, we'll release all the other 3.55 material and content… and then, hopefully, by March 7th… maybe March 9th… maybe March 14th… we'll have the exploratory mission Diadem content in patch 3.55b. We're working hard! As best as we can, we'll have it to you as soon as we can get it to you. There's a certain raid within the Diadem content and it's… a little bit too… yeah… something happened… it's a very new type of raid, and we want the content to be as stress-free and fun for you as possible, so… a little bit longer. Just seven more days! or maybe nine more days! Or maybe fourteen… more days! But we'll try our best to make it seven. ...or nine! We're very sorry, thank you…

So rather than push the release for 3.55 back, they’re splitting it into two: 3.55a with everything else, and 3.55b with Diadem.

He confirmed that 3.56 will contain the MSQ Continuation, and also corrected something he said at a previous date to say 3.56 will also contain the MGP Garo gear: 

Yoshi-P: Ah, one more thing! Koji Fox: "Uh-oh, another apology…" Yoshi-P: So as you all know, in Japanese with each new patch, I do a patch note readings. So at one of these readings, I mentioned that Garo gear would be obtainable via MGP at 3.55… I didn't mean 3.55… I meant 3.56!! I'm very sorry!!

So that’s why!! Here’s what he had to say about the staggered release dates for all the content:

Koji Fox: "It's okay." Yoshi-P: I'm very sorry!! I mean, there's so many patch 3.55's, I just… I'm very sorry!! Ah, but that just means there'll be lots of updates before 4.0, so… updates are fun! Right?? And then by the time we get there it's like, oh, it's already time for 4.0, so hurray! Audience member: (shouts) "Hurray!" Yoshi-P: But… I'm sorry!! Koji Fox: "It's okay!" [...] Yoshi-P: After that we have many more small patches planned before 4.0, so there'll be a continuous flow of content up to the release. And if you run out of stuff to do, then… you can always make a bunch more anima weapons! Koji Fox: (pointing) "Boooo!" 

So now you know. Full transcript here!

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Full quote from keynote speech WRT class role balance and queue times (emphasis mine):

So, the two new jobs being revealed will be Red Mage and Samurai.

I know that a lot of you are now expecting the announcement of the 3rd job. There is no third - we realised after Heavensward that it was a little too much for us.

We know that many of you may be worried that because both of the jobs are DPS, there will be difficulties with party matching and levelling.

With Heavensward, we added both tank and a healer, but looking at actual data, the ones who remained as tanks and healers were playing them before Heavensward. Both roles have 3 jobs each, and we wanted to maintain this balance, so we decided to introduce 2 DPS jobs and balance the jobs from here.

Now this does not mean we plan on neglecting our tanks and healers. We have a wide range of changes planned for the battle system. We hope to breathe new life into the existing roles, and spent as much time balancing/optimising as we did for example with AST.

Thank you very much.

We understand there's a lot of you out there - especially PLD - looking forward to some balance, so we plan on making sure the next few months that they will fit with these two new jobs.

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My FanFest Transcripts

i’m not a professional transcriptionist and i’m not paid to do this so there are some formatting mistakes, grammar mistakes, minor rewordings, and i missed the start (like 10min) of a few of the panels for Las Vegas. but!! here they are. take them

Las Vegas 2016 FanFest including Keynote, Please Look Forward To It Q&A, Lore Panel, and Live Letter

Frankfurt 2017 FanFest including Keynote and Live Letter