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Day Before Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6OZe2VManU
# Y = YoshiP, F = Foxclon, M = Mocchi, S = Soken, W = Wada(?)

m; hai, good evening everyone community team mocchi here

m; already messed up from beginning but i’m bit

m; plz let us know how the sound is on twitter, if the sound is breaking or too loud please send in tweet

m; little bit extra stuff but there was something like this, failed project but a stand up card something like this

m; there is nothing else for today

m; how is everything else other than voice

m; how is it

m; echo is fixed, is it good, is it good

m; well since we don’t have anything it’s hard to keep this going so I want to call Soken-san

s; not yet

m; left to me Soken is fixing up

m; bgm is not running

s; it’s running but it’s super low

m; how is it?

s; mm

m; it’s not running

m; my voice sounds further away

s; this?

m; mocchi’s voice got smaller so

m; this is probably first time it’s actually like test broadcast

m; do one shot joke? no it’s test broadcast so i won’t

m; right now, im probably looking at soken-san really serious

m; how is it, ahh ahh, if it’s loud or quiet pls let us know

m; let me know if it’s good too so please let us know

m; oh it’s good? is it good

m; oh; looks good

m; how about overall volume, is it too loud or quiet, or other

m; what the hell is other, ok just right being the 3rd option

m; seeing lots of OK

m; is it good

s; talk for 20 more sec

m; talking for 20 seconds is pretty long, even a commercial is like 10 seconds, what am i supposed to talk

m; looks good?

m; im doing my best

m; how is it, soken-san how is it?

s; got one problem remaining, but lets test it out

m; i think everyone want’s to see you more than me

s; …

m; he’s ignoring completely, how rude is this old man

m; is it good

s; alright

s; ummm if there are voice… mm

s; nevermind

m; you sure? if you want to test something out please test it out

m; soken-san please come over here

s; oops

s; byooon (sound)

s; thank you

s; this is soken working on sound

m; soken-san i wanted to tell you something, this (shows connect!on)

m; soken’s sound creation

m; you’re not takling about the game

m; on the chat bubble here specially

s; (reading what’s on there, talking about knee socks)

m; this is probably first time I seen someone write something not talking about game

s; I did say it

m; you sure?

s; nope… i guess not, it’s okay, didn’t say it

m; earlier i brought this up, but it was too small, so you brought something right?

s; right now im in hell

m; well there are times when we are in hell but it actually want’s

s; well i got sick at one point and caused trouble to other staff, ill try my best to stay well, i’ll eat more vegetables.

s; people are telling me to bring this back to regular test broadcast

m; i was told the same

s; i posted on twitter saying please come help test out the broadcast tomorrow and there were so many so i feel bad for them so i brought something

m; so you did bring it

s; on dec 31’st end of the year, we had distant world concert and we had the ‘answers’ in the back with ms susan singing, it was an amazing concert. well today i obtained the bootleg video

m; someone was recording

s; yeah lol

s; if i play the whole thing, people from downstairs going to run up here and get all angry

m; of course

s; so will play bits and pieces of it

s; we messed up last time so this time we’re going to do it right

m; so you’re going to bring me into this again

s; go!, play, please play

# blank screen

s; black screen again… what does this mean

s; (laugh) it started again huh, it’s test broadcast so it’s ok.. can hear someone laughing in the back

s; lets try again

m; you sure it’s ok

s; yes

s; lets do this

m; is this going to work

s; lets do this




s; stop, stop, stop this is wrong one lol

s; this is the video we got in trouble last time…

s; last time the sound was breaking so lets hope it’s working this time

s; was wondering about this but this okay like this?

s; okay lets test again with that same video, let’s use that video we got in trouble, so testing with a test video, can you hear my voice, can you hear my voice

m; soken-san?

s; what’s that cough?

s; were you able to hear the uldah bgm and my voice

m; voice is ok

s; how about the bgm

m; please let me know if you heard uldah music

s; ok looks like its working, good thing we tested something like this with this video

m; not good, not good…

m; we messed up twice already, next one is going to be good right?

s; it’s alright, let’s go






s; this is ms susan, with the end of era trailer in the back, this was amazing, it was live event, was at the international forum,

s; for people who don’t know and listened to this were amazed at this song. it’s amazing

m; wha…wha…what… soken-san, stop this, what was this

s; mm? what?

m; there was a weird scene

s; i featured the end of era

s; i had lots of tweet so

m; not talking about that

s; just like this article i did my best

y; wait.. soken-chan, it’s alright, the weird video… what was that

s; pray

y; pray? to what? i don’t care about the que miss, customers can let that go, we were at the forum and watched that, but what you think with the bgm playing that video, look at me

s; yes yes, will look at you

y; this is test braodcast right? it’s going to be alright in the live one?

s; it’s going to be good

y; why doesn’t test broadcast work

s; maybe there is a god making it not work

y; (sigh) today, it was raining hard and was very windy, in this wind i was carrying a large bag like this with umbrella like this and went to amano-san’s office, to check the ARR’s box art

m; wait wait

y; huh? already said it no

?; it wasn’t released yet

y; huh?

s; (laugh)

?; we haven’t announced yet

y; why?

?; please don’t

y; i don’t want to

s; please sit down as well

# all sitting on floor

s; yatta yoshida-san is now one of us!

s; that international forum one was amazing right? you were sitting next to me

y; don’t say much

s; no no, we were really amazed, i cried

y; you?

s; but well you were sitting next to me, and if i used tissue paper to wipe my eyes it’ll look bad so i just cried without it, to make it look like i’m not crying

s; so i was watching while crying full on

s; but at that time, i wanted to see if you found out i was crying and i looked at him and yoshida-san was crying

y; lol both of us, we were sitting straight up and crying

s; both old guys amazed and crying

y; with that kind of amazing answers and overlapping a bgm can’t be forgiven, compared to the cover art this is nothing

?; no, it’s about the same

s; we need to test this again later in office

m; of course

s; lets test again later

s; also the info yoship leaked..

y; it’s going to be a wonderful package

s; stop stop, enough

s; ok that’s it for broadcast

m; tomorrow is at 8pm

s; everyone tomorrow at 8pm please check it out~
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# new bgm OMG ww

# video of magitek walking in snow with ff6 bgm remix

f; good evening everyone

w; good evening

f; suddenly started with magitek armor

w; ff6 huh

f; yeah the live one looks amazing

f; we have wada-san from beginning

f; haven’t seen yoshida-san around

w; meh it should be alright

f; we don’t have much to talk about

f; hows everything going

w; everyone, i am getting out of the president position

w; go through my dead body… or something like that…

w; well this is to change the company status, but as for XIV nothing will be changed

w; so please continue to support us

w; it’s basically just changing class from president position

f; that’s hard to follow up on

w; don’t

f; yoshida-san not here

w; he must have something going on

f; well we have mr. housing here, and everyone going to wonder if you just leave, whats going on

w; well i brought something, i was thinking of changing class from president to crafter or something

f; this is… live video

w; this is my first time seeing it, it’s actually big

f; can see the ocean so must be limsa

w; must be expensive

y; alright lets start the live

f; thank you for watching, good evening

f; actually my 2nd time saying it

y; there were lots askign for mr. housing so we had him appear in a video

y; well actual live broadcast starts from here

f; we have producer/director yoshida here as usual

f; first off, if you got any questiosn please send them in via twitter

f; later on, limited to japan only, but will talk a bit about the niconico chou kaigi (event)

y; we added 5-6 more worlds

y; not much showing phase 2, so wanted to show more of the other live machine

f; mr housing brought up the video of housing zone

y; lets go with the housing area

f; it’s the sunset, its beautiful

y; we showed this in art before but this is limsa’s ocean view area

y; it’s something like this

y; has sunset, and view

f; see lots of houses

y; yeah these huoses are all which players can build

y; you buy property like this and build your housing

f; ok going to question, what kind of stuff can you play with housing

y; placing items in house, they have different effects, so say for FC it give exp bonus, or gives more gil bonus boost and stuff, by placing objects you get bonus

y; this is still being developed so the collisions are not all done so please forgive us on that part, it’s still being worked

f; moving from house to another

y; for moving, we will add it through patches, and if you have 2nd housing and stuff it should be easy to move

f; can you buy/sell properties through trade

y; yes, you can trade, like say you want to give to your loved ones, you can

f; that’s pretty expensive present

y; yes

f; so if you’re rich you can do that

f; with housing and land, can you have multiple housing in different locations such as one in limsa and one in grid

y; that’s similar to previous question, but later on you will know more

f; so starting with one

y; for now yes, and later will change

f; can you show a little vid of arcanist casting/summoing?

y; for those playing beta, and played previous xiv knows the current classes, but from phase 3 we have ps3 players who never played so, we want them to try the existing classes out first, at the launch we can have arcanist so please wait until then.

f; alright,

y; it’s alright to leave the live game screen up

f; ok next q, in last letter v, you stated you will make arcanist by launch

y; we’ll show it through video so please wait for it.

f;

y; could be samurai, or darknight, only battle team would know, but we want to do it

f; grt labryth bahamut, and primal weapons, how strong are they compared to relic?

f; started looking through papers

y; weapons right

y; weapon

y; wait armor, this is armor

y; not saying primal, but we have full set ready

y; weapons right, weapons

y; people were talking about arcanist, and feel sorry so

y; is this good?

f; oooh, i see

y; the strongest would be the items dropped from labyrinth bahamut

y; once you hit lv50 and clear the scenario and get the primal weapons, then go through crystal tower to get gears from there then go to bahamut labyrinth

f; so it’s in that order

y; yes, so primal isn;’t on the top

f; previous xiv - castrum novum and other beastman areas that were open in old will they be available in ARR

y; they are mainly instanced

y; also when saying everything in previous xiv is instanced, that’s not true, there are some that’s open so, we want to show them through walkthrough and you’ll see what’s instanced and not.

f; ok lets leave the housing area

y; ok so that means that’s it for mr. housing’s appearance

y; well today was hard, but next time might be able to have him come in here as mr. housing

y; next person also loves games so, please look forward to that

f; wanted to see another area

y; ok while we get mroe q’s I’ll move the char

f; there were mid point areas that were just names in old xiv, will those areas be accessible in ARR

y; there will be some that can be accessible, some will be released/opened up with expansions and patches

f; so they can look forward to it

y; yes

f; first time appearance

y; changing the time (in-game time)

f; everyone is wondering what’s goign to be shown

f; cant show the development screen but it’s really interesting

y; i think i can show now

f; wonder if everyone sees it

f; ok if you can run around the town

y; this is beta 3, done with separate branch as we mentioned, as for the UI we have major updates going on, and has bugs so it’s not placed in this one so you may see no names for NPC but just see it as how NPC’s are placed and stuff

f;

y; the weather right now is

y; there are other weather such as cloudy, sunny, rain, sand storm

y; there are special weather in some areas

y; like that magitek armor one, in some areas you will see snow storms like you did

y; this will mainly affect fishing

y; for fishing you choose rod/bait and with weather you decide, for other there isn’t much

f; can you explain the difference between job/class in ARR

y; parameters are changed so the jobs are upper class

y; when you solo it’s probably better to go with class, but for dungeons with party it’s better with job

y; you’ll probably be with class when leveling but as you go through end game contents go with jobs more

f; can you show higher view of the sky

y; this is nice view right now

y; twin tower

f; ok another from twitter

f what special points do want to show to players for limsa

y; liveliness so is proably you can see more in here, the building and towers are done pretty well

y; for those areas that took a while to travel was cut out

y; also we have placed in-town teleports also

y; this is the grand company hq

f; alright next question from twitter

f; at ARR launch, how much instanced dungeon is expected

y; with all the big ones included, ummm, 16,17,18

f; ok something like that

y; yes, it’s really hard, it’s hard for the leveling team, battle team, bgm team, and qa team

y; not this time but next time, there are dungeons that’s not inside but outside areas

y; want to show it but hopefully next time we can

y; it’s dungeon wehre you can feel the group living there, so please look forward to it

f; bottom lower area

y; let me go there

f; is there any feature to forcast the weather,

y; i see, i will tell others about it

y; that’s interesting

y; if I decide on that now, people in the back going to go crazy so….

y; there is market and

y; the lighting is nice here (halation?)

f; was mentioned ARR’s materia system will change greatly, but can you explain

y; will explain the large parts - first off in item there will be a socket slot, with those with one slot you can palce one, you can place as much as the available slots. for double/triple+ melds you can add onto aside from these slots, but if lost you will not lose the base item (thx Sconning)

y; we took out the feature where you can place the materia, there are no limitations on the part to place but we have something like one gear can place max of x stats.

y; we made it so crafters can role play and say they specialize in mataeria attachment and stuff so those were done carefully

y; we want to make sure previous XIV players with materia gear can work out their gear so they are not loss, so please don’t worry and look forward to the new materia system.

f; ok next question, buddy system chocobo, tank and caster type, can you select at the time of launch?

y; ummm, hold on, buddy’s class/roll?

f; tank/caster so roll

y; players can change class so chocobo sync’s their level to the players class level

y; don’t want them to be overpowered compared to the players level

y; you will be able to select skills, it’s close to skill tree system, you can place points to healer type to make it healer, or balance it out

y; you can switch the roll so like say player is warrior, so you want chocobo to play roll of whm at that time and stuff. It’s made so it fits the armoury system well.

y; also we showed different gears for chocobo, but we decided the gears are mainly for looks only, you can equip anything so you can go out and obtain and dress them up instead of having parameters and limiting to thsoe gears.

f; can you go instanced dungeon with buddy?

y; at launch timing we locked it so you can’t we want players to go with other players but later timing we want to add and have buddy, as we move forward we want to add them

y; we can’t release arcanist but the guild is ok

f; arcanist guild, what’s going on with it

y; guild looks like this

f; in old xiv it existed so probably wondered

y; looks like they are doing something, but will end it there

f; ok for first half lets leave it as that,and we would like to take our 5 min break

f; we have more for 2nd half, but for now we want to have some break time

y; this time i requested for this video, there may be new materials in there so..

# (break time)

hai!

f; was everyone able to take break?

y; we’ll probably see him as mr. housing

y; i’m starting to worry, if i get in trouble, im in charge so that’s that, i’ll apologize then

f; missed the magitek armor, can you show again

y; this was nice

y; the wipe (effect) is teasing little by little

y; from devs point, you don’t see the footprints in the snow, so we’ll address that

y; also this was taken to look like VI but you can make scenes like this

f; hope you were able to see it this time

f; ok next question, please explain the details about the nico2 choukaigi (event in japan)

f; please wait until the end of the video, we’ll explain it

f; from yesterdays test broadcast

f; can you give some more info on the CE version

y; yesterday when I talked about it, marketing told me to sit down

y; there is box like this nad

y; opened and

y; it’s ok right?

y; since i said it they said ok, big difference from yesterday

y; in front there is box art from amano-san, actually didn’t ask him to make one, actually it was arleady made and was taking the original back to him in the rain.

y; i am big fan of amano-san and get really hyped up

y; if i say anymore, even if the JP PR let me go, the foreign PR might stop talking to me

y; well it will have in-game item

y; for those who bought the original CE, asking if they need to buy

y; for that we’ll address it, know we’re going to get people asking that so yeah

y; we need to give the details and stuff so yeah

f; can you make the furnitures for the housing?

y; there was some in the break time slideshow

y; ithink this was up

f; this is human silouhette here right, so this is pretty big

y; yeah, you can place it in middle of the room and stuff

y; when you make FC, high level crafters can make like that and place it in the housing

y; please look forward

f; forgot the live game, what will you show us next

y; next is Ul’dah behind us

y; this is first time showing

f; there is different stuff

f; ok you showed different reward items from content but what’s going to happen with crafers item.

y; if you miss going to end up wiping, so crafters fill up that gap with gears.

y; once xiv is released, i’m going to be full on playing xiv

y; for players to advance on, crafters are there to support, and they help fill the gap between the top reward

f; next q - will the method you obtain relic weapon change in arr, if you’re at midpoint what will happen.

y; we made sure the items and stuff are still there so please don’t worry, it might become little bit easier, want everyone to enjoy and upgrade in ARR. It won’t be where you lose stuff you did midpoint so don’t worry.

f; pvp specific gear, you mentioned the face will open, can you make whm’s hood on/off

y; for warriors visors and similar you will be able to, but for hoods you can’t

y; like head gear on/off you can put visor down/up

f; we saw the magitek armor, can you listen to the bgm that played?

y; blogger M released that magitek armor and at that night, we got a message from the sound guy saying I worked on this at night, have no regrests in the mail…

y; we were talking about making sure it’s used in the right spot at the right time

f; so for answer, once we have a place for that bgm we’ll add it

y; well if others push and say they want to listen anywhere then the sound director might say he feel sorry for others and we may change

f; can we change coloring for magitek

y; we have lots of request so would want to make contents where you can enjoy them so ..

f; next questions pvp - can you just watch without participating

y; it’s in the plans where you can take over the pvp players view, since people wonder how they play and stuff, so we need to look into that but something bigger, we are stuck with copyright to videos and I like making my own video’s, problem is the voice and bgm and them but this time we were able to clear all those problems this time, this was one reason we had to redo the voicing. So players can make video for their free company. Also there was some similar announcement in PS4 so we thought this was good

y; to get it with just FF14 materials it should be good so

f; don’t show beta, no beta

y; yes during beta, no

f; please wait for the launch

f; really wondering what’s that structure in the back

y; let me move there

f; k next question regarding pvp - please give more details for pvp

y; ok to go back to live game, this is another new area

y; for pvp, first colloseum, not sure im allowd to say it, but tenkaichi budoukai, like you paly blm you can attack from range but you’re def is low so you have to hide behind structures and stuff, and for knights they try to take down the weak def players so they can manage the battle.

for concept it’s made as 4vs4, this is the basic. and the maps we showed previous live had different levels (height) for players to hide/etc.

y; when you win, you gain points

y; with piotns you gain rank and be able to gain more points, and buy skills, passive skills for pvp

y; with those you can go individual traits

y; this is mnk/puglist

y; and this is swan robe

y; pvp job gear

f; more?

y; mmm it’s bit different

y; the ones you can buy, if i say anymore battle team will get mad at me but, there are stuff you can use in pvp but there will be some that can be used by specific races, some might wonder what race to choose, so we’ll show those later on, please look forward to it

f; one more pvp related, can you use content finder with colloseum

y; since there is matching yes

f; another q about content finder, are there other party invite feature aside from content finder

y; i think that question is there since people don’t know how much the content finder can do

y; we want to prepare other features, but first want people to use the finder. There are bonuses when using content finder. but for high level dungeons it gets hard so we’ll address those as well with other parties

f;primal battle

y; standing position is didfferent, also depending on the battle it changes, like for titan there are gimmicks on the ground which uses the level, like the ground breaking… etc…etc..

y; after some time when less people challenge those content we want to add them as open field, when talking about FF primals are there so we want them in

f; are there any plans for random features

y; at the moment, no, level designing is particular so if the strategy changes every time it gets hard so at beginning we want to control the balance, we do have plans but at the release timing there isn’t any.

f; linkshell FC crest - what kind of parts are available to make the crest

y; thought there was going to be FC related questions - for crest it’s black/white, sorry for the images beign small, this alright?

y; there are behemoth crest like this and

y; we have stuff like these

y; you choose the color and the back base plate

y; and more like this

f; thank you

f; ok next qustions - another intersting area

y; was talking about this one with the team

y; there was one, if they are going to dat mine want them to work, but those information was released, but for those in beta people think it’s pretty similar to previous xiv, but want to make sure there are others like this one .

y; empire base

y; there are gc people back there and from there you go through empire area, will leave it at that

f; going to next - ARR when transfering data can you do it once again at phase 4? changing race/gender/etc

y; during the beta test, they are test so you can change at the time of launch, if we made it where you can change during test unknown error may arise so please wait till launch for it.

f; ARR lodestone

y; between 3 & 4 ARR lodestone beta test will start

f; legacy plaeyrs, we talked about staff roll, any updates on that?

y; sorry we didn’t have any update, we should be able to open up a site next week where you can send in request for that, you can use your character name, or actual.

f; please decide then

f; what kind of items can be transfered between characters in same account

y; under process it’s psosible at beginning we won’t allow this

y; there are RMT’s that can utilize this so after running for a while and knowing this works


–- missed sorry

y; alright

f; where is this?
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# Q36: Will trains, boats, and airships run on a set schedule? Also, will we be able to see Eorzea from the sky when we ride on airships?

# A36: It will basically be the same as it was in 1.0, so unfortunately it will not be possible to view Eorzea from the air.

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f; ok lets go to next question while watching this

y; while watching

f; Will trains, ships, and airships travel in specific schedule?

y; I talked about this previously, basically it will be like previous XIV travel through instanced

y; it dumped me

# Apukalu walks away #

y; so you’ll go that way, so to wait and stuff (for the ride to arrive) is not implemented this time as well

y; and there is a specific policy for this, say for example we add a situation where something happens while riding, such as F.A.T.E to occur, at that time it gives players an anticipation while waiting that something may happen and go, I think that’s better reason when thinking about the cost

y; so when contents like that gets implemented we want to open up features like that

y; and I apologize, but the other point is that we remade everything with this much quality, in order to view this from the sky requires us to create something specific for that, so it is not possible for us to implement right away.
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y; this is limsa side

f; ok lets go to next q while watching

f; will trains follow specific path?

y; it will travel through isntance, so there is no waiting time

y; but say when we add FATE while riding airship, i think it’s better to release that at that time

y; and i apologize in advance but in order to view this word from above costs alot so we can’t do it right away.

f; any plans for trying out gear

y; minagawa-san wanted to so we should be seeing that in future.

f; if you can change gender, what’s going to happen to swim wear & rse

y; that’s a hard questions, we will have speicific NPC’s for these kind of stuff, but as for swim wear lot’s wanted it, so we want to make it fair fhose people can get it too so there isn’t much to worry.

f; please jump off

y; normally ouch wouldn’t do

y; what is that

f; next question, armory board, any updates?

y; talked to minagawa to see if we got anything, it’s hard to tell

y; it was easy to explain when we had the manequinne to explain, since if it’s easy to explain that means it’s easy to use, but since it was hard to use, and we received lots of plaeyr feedbacks on this, we made a large board where you can place icons and place same items in different slots (alias) for different sets.

y; we were trying to come up with better way to explain but hope that made sense

f; will there be ls finder, guild finder

y; for that one we are concentrating on the lodestone side, so first use that first.

y; also there are ps3 players, it will be too much UI, and for guilds they want to show as much information and pages showing their images and stuff so we want to concentrate first on the website side.

y; there aren’t any npc’s right now but there will be

f; ok next - any beasitary you can check from in-game

y; no, it will be impossible for the PS3 players so we’ll have website with database with those

f; next - old xiv depending on region you fight the bgm changed, in ARR would it change as well?

y; this time we asked to change the instruments used in different regions so it matches that regions theme.

f; beta test p3 - ulda/grid/limsa will be released but what other features will be released

y; free company, guild order (guildhest), bigger FATE, it’s 3x more (since 3 areas)

y; it’s a lot of work

f; many stuff will be added

f; k next - aside from FATE any other open content?

y; in general want to push FATE, so for those played beta, you take over the bandits fort, and defend afterwards, on top of that we have monsters kidnap NPC’s from town so you have to save them, and while saving them you fight a boss and stuff.

y; there are lots of open content inside the FATE, also the hamlet and stuff will all be though this so please think of everything open as fate related.

f;

y; i was told not to show the water

f; why?

y; not sure

y; really important lalafell is sitting here while lalafell is fanning

y; was told not to show the water, i’m gonna get in trouble later probably

y; goingto change to sunset

f; next question is last - anything other than meteor, can you show us limit break

y; yeah people would want to know about it soon

y; hold on

y; from phase 3, no 4, you’ll able to start using but what we’re doing right now is the final impact trailer and at that time, you will see other classes limit break, which shows “this is final fantasy” so would like for everyone to wait for that one

y; why am I getting hit bymonster

f; ok changed to live

f; it’s beautiful

y; for limit break there is lv1,2,3, for lv1, it can be used with light party so please talk with each other to use or not use.

y; we are working on a trailer, so please look at it then.

f; people saying you haven’t answered about couthas and mordona

y; in previous 14 it wasn’t related much with the scenario but, these areas now are peaceful but those areas will have effect from the 7th umbral era, and stuff related to imperials, so it has feel of the battle front, also the area being covered in snow.

y; we will show it in the field walkthrough part 3

y; we want to make sure we show the actual scenes instead of art, and being told it’s fake

f; ff14 arr will attend nico2 choukaigi event - please go into power point

f; as we mentioned already, we are collaborating with windows 8

f; and the name …. (name too damn long)

y; name is long

f; this is the booth

y; people may say kids like that going to play MMO?

f; this is just an image

y; we want players to go through character make and try out a bit

f; we’ll follow up on the location and all that later but first it’s right when you go through hall1

f; we’ll have different stage events, demo corner, become miqo’te corner

f; in this area, you can go through miqo’te make up, and get miqo’te ear as present.

y; make staff will makeup and put on ears, and asking to PR the game

f; no not saying to do PR

y; as producer I want to say please do

f; also for this stage event - introduce windows 8

y; since we are collaborating

f; did you tryout miqo’te makeup? this one features that section in live event

f; soken creates a music on the spot

s: ???

y; he’s like I have to compose something on spot

f; we’ll have the stuff there, bringthe booth there, to show his work so other can watch and enjoy

y; wow that’s amazing, I’m amazed

s; i didn’t hear anything about this…

f; we brought different actors and asked them questions

f; one more another talk event with YoshiP & Hiroyuki

y; want to do free talk with him

f; the marketing is really worried about this one

y; they can’t touch since it’s live

y;there is one more

f; yoshida might answer some questions

y; if players ask some questions and i’m there I want to answer

y; in the PR event if there is people we meet, want to talk and answer

f; we’re going to make it so you can see it with nico-nama

f; they probably want to ask teh questions and have them show up on screen

f; actor stage - going to introduce one today

f; ms. tanaka rie will be coming

y; what kind of voice will she be in charge

y; this is the script with the signature

f; what’s with the pink lines

y; this isn’t all for the script, this is only one part

f; we have more coming

y; how many actors…

f: the pink parts have the parts those actors are playing

f; please look forward to the event - (JST) 4/27-4/28 please check out the url for info

y; there is one thing I was told to mention

y; the booth is limited so please look around and then come through the booth, might get crowded but please feel at home.

f; yoshida sand and soken san will be there, mocchi as well

y; molbol too

f; yes i’ll bethere

y; please bring those that don’t know about xiv also

f; ok that’s it for the advertisement for the event

f; today was bit long

f; starting tomorrow is beta phase 2

y; it’s ready to test

y; originally we were planning to wipe the characters at phase 1, but felt it was bit harsh for players to start over to try out the high level content so you’ll be able to. One thing though, the gamepad mode is there so we want to please check and leave feedbacks on that, so please make a new character and check through the howto’s as those are different. Don’t want players to suddenly use gamepad mode with high level and go manor and get in a difficult situation

f; that’s it for today, anything else today

y; nope, i had to kneel down (seiza) and didn’t know why,

y; my bone made cracking sound and i think that sound was picked up

f; ok starting tomorrow beta 2, next will be the 7th, once we have the details will let you know, we would like to end it here,

y; see you at the chou-kaigi event~

(end)

More pictures: http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/04/04/here-are-the-final-fantasy-xiv-letter-from-the-producer-live-iv-qa-summary-and-relevant-screencaps/

Q & A:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/61547-Letter-from-the-Producer-LIVE-Part-VI-Q-A-Updates?p=986077#post986077

Q1: What kind of bonuses will players receive by utilizing housing?

A1: By setting up items known as towers at your house, you and your free company members can receive bonuses to things like EXP, the rate in which you acquire gil, and other benefits.

Q2: Will you be able to buy and sell the rights to the land for housing in your bazaar?

A2: Yes. You will also be able to trade them.

Q3: Is it possible to have multiple houses? For example, your main residence is located in Limsa Lominsa, but you have a vacation home in Gridania or Ul’dah.

A3: It really depends on multiple factors, like lag and such, but as long as there are no problems we would like to make it possible to possess multiple houses.

Q4: Could you show us an image of an arcanist or summoner using their skills? (Just a peek!)

A4: We’re planning to release new information right before the start of Beta Test phase 3, so please wait until then.

Q5: In the previous Letter from the Producer Live you mentioned that summoner would make it in time for launch, but will it be possible to play as an arcanist in the open Beta Test?

A5: I don’t believe it will be ready in time for Open Beta; however, we would like to introduce them with a video.

Q6: Are you planning to implement great swords?

A6: We would like to introduce great swords when we implement a new class or job.

Q7: Compared to primal weapons and relic weapons, how strong are you planning to make the weapons from Crystal Tower and the Great Labyrinth of Bahamut?

A7: The way we’ve set it up is so you can use the weapons you obtained through the primal battles to then challenge the Crystal Tower, and then use the weapons you obtain from Crystal Tower to challenge the Great Labyrinth of Bahamut. With that said, the weapons and armor would follow strength in that order. Since there are a lot of primal weapons, we are also creating armor.

Q8: Will you be eliminating open dungeons like Castrum Novum from 1.0 where you could enter without having to make a party?

A8: The things we are calling dungeons will all be instanced dungeons, but that doesn’t mean that all of the dungeons that existed in version 1.0 will be turned into instances. There will be things such as FATE that take place in them.

Q9: Are there any plans for us to be able to go to areas from version 1.0 that we were unable to go to such as “Paglth’an?”

A9: There will be some locations you will be able to go to. In addition, even if it doesn’t make it in time for the launch, we’re thinking about adding these new areas in upcoming patches!

Q10: In regards to the weather in A Realm Reborn, what kind of weather will there be? Also, could you tell us any details about how the weather will affect the game?

A10: We’ve prepared sunny, cloudy, clear, rainy, and special weather for each region (for example sand storms and blizzards). We also plan on having weather largely affect fishing.

Q11: Can you show us the weather from a higher point-of-view?

A11: [Yoshida showed off a bit of the weather in-game]

Q12: Could you please tell us the difference between jobs and classes in A Realm Reborn?

A12: Compared to 1.0, we will be placing jobs above classes in terms of their ranking, however, classes will still remain better suited for times that you are leveling up solo, while jobs will be better suited for party content.

Q13: Are there any spots you would like us to pay attention to while in Limsa Lominsa?

A13: The open terraces, for instance. In addition, I would like everyone to enjoy the open atmosphere. It has a much different feel to it compared to the other main cities. We also made changes to the city so it’s easier to move from one location to another (including warp points).

Q14: How many instanced dungeons will there be at launch?

A14: Including the bigger ones, we will be implementing around 16-18 instanced dungeons.

Q15: Will there be a system that will forecast the weather?

A15: That’s something that would be nice to have so we’ll be sure to let the lead know!

Q16: In the previous broadcast, you mentioned that the materia system would be largely changing, but could you tell us some details on this?

A16: The equipment in A Realm Reborn will have sockets, and you will be able to place materia into these sockets without failure. We are calling any attempts to add further materia beyond the set number of sockets “forbidden,” (what we referred to as multiple melding) but if you fail at this in A Realm Reborn you will not lose your equipment. We will also be addressing this so imbalances do not arise with gear that has been melded with multiple materia in version 1.0. We will let you know further information as we move toward release.

Q17: Will we be able to enter instanced dungeons with our chocobo buddy?

A17: We would like everyone to challenge the dungeons with players at launch so you won’t be able to enter the dungeons with your chocobo buddy. However, we do have plans to release the restriction in stages. Please stay tuned!

Q18: You mentioned that there would be tank, caster, and other roles for the chocobo buddy system, but could you tell us some details about the system?

A18: Ultimately feature-wise, the player has the Armoury system and the chocobo’s level will match their master’s level. As the chocobo continues to grow you will be able to acquire points, which you can then use to obtain skills. If you obtain attack-related skills, you can gear more towards an attacker role, while if you focus more on healing skills, your chocobo will become a healer. It will be possible to change their role anytime you wish.

One more thing… Up until now we have shown a bunch of different chocobo equipment, but we’d like you to choose what you equip based on how you want your chocobo to look. By setting parameters to chocobo armor, we felt everyone would be equipping the same armor, so we decided to get rid of stats for their armor completely. We’d like you to pick the armor you like the best.

Q19: What’s happened to the arcanist guild?

A19: [Showed the arcanist guild area on the stream]

Q20: Will we be able to craft furniture for housing?

A20: Yes, we have plans for you to be able to craft many, many items. Stay tuned!

Q21: Would you be able to provide us with more information on the ARR Collector’s Edition?

A21: The Collector’s Edition may come with some in-game items… Don’t worry, we do have plans to do something for the 1.0 players that have purchased the original Collector’s Edition!

Q22: Will there be changes to the relic weapon quest in A Realm Reborn? Also, if there are changes and we were in the middle of the quest in 1.0, will we be able to continue?

A22: We are planning to make some simple changes to the content, but your progress status will be saved and we’ll be making sure the efforts you made are not wasted.

Q23: During the previous Producer Letter Live, you showed us artwork for the upcoming PvP gear and some of the artwork had the open face. Will we be able lift the visor for the warrior artifact helmet or put on the hood up for the white mage artifact armor?

A23: You will be able to lift the visor for the warrior helmet, but unfortunately, you won’t be able to put on the hood for the white mage armor.

Q24: Will it be possible to customize or add color to magitek armor?

A24: We are creating them so that they can be customized and colored. We are also thinking about implementing content involving playing with both chocobos and magitek.

Q25: Will we be able to listen to the music that we heard at the start of of the show when you showed the magitek armor in-game?

A25: Generally, the in-game music is created based on the scene. However, with this particular music, Music Director Soken went all out and created it strictly from the images that were released on the blog. Soken mentioned that he has no regrets creating the music! Since the music wasn’t something that we requested, we’ll try to use it if we can find a good fit for it.

Q26: Can the duty finder be used for 4v4 or 8v8 PvP colosseum and other content?

A26: There will be a matching system that can be used.

Q27: How will the primal fights change in ARR?

A27: They will be basically be the same as the fights in version 1.0. However, we will be making some minor tweaks based on the new battle system and the primals will have a larger role in the main scenario.

Q28: Do you plan on adding any random elements to dungeons, such as where monsters and treasure chests spawn, paths, and puzzles?

A28: Currently we are not planning on this, but I don’t believe it is out of the question.

Q29: You have shown us many rewards that we will be able to obtain in ARR. How will crafted gear impact the game?

A29: In ARR, every gear is assigned with an item level. These item levels are also tied with the difficulty of each instanced dungeon. For example, let’s say you challenge a higher-level instanced dungeon without meeting the item level requirement. Players will be able to able to fill the missing item level via crafted items. Also, players will be able to unlock new crafting recipes by completing content. We’ll make sure the crafters will be able to shine in many aspects of the game!

Q30: Will it be possible to watch PvP as a spectator without actually participating?

A30: We are planning to have it so you can view the camera of the players PvPing, but we’re just barely progressing with this, so we will be looking into this as a feature to be released in the future.

On a separate note, in order to record in-game content and upload it, we need copyright permission. However, considering the current trends, gameplay videos are quite popular, and we were able to clear all the authority issues with the cooperation of all the related individuals including the songs and voices.

Of course, materials cannot be used if they are not A Realm Reborn-related, and when it comes to A Realm Reborn materials, they cannot be used just any way. However, after launch, we’d like to aim at allowing you to have fun and make official gameplay videos. We will be sure to inform you all of details moving forward.

*Since there is a NDA in place, this will not be possible during the Beta Test.

Q31: Will we be able to change the appearance of our characters during the beta phase? Or is this something we can only do at the launch of ARR?

A31: The one-time appearance change will be available only for the launch of ARR.

Q32: When are you planning to switch the Lodestone to the ARR version?

A32: We will most likely switch over to the ARR version some time between phase 3 to phase 4 of the Beta Test.

Q33: What’s the status of Legacy players wishing to add their names to credits?

A33: We will be releasing the sign-up page next week so please stay tuned!

Q34: How much of an impact will the selected guardian have on our characters? Will it be minimal similar to 1.0?

A34: Yes, the impact will be very minimal.

Q35: Could you provide more details on how we will be able to move items between characters on the same account?

A35: While you will be able to move items between different characters on the same account, the feature will be unavailable at the launch of ARR. We will monitor the situation and release the feature once we feel that it’s okay to release.

Q36: Will trains, boats, and airships run on a set schedule? Also, will we be able to see Eorzea from the sky when we ride on airships?

A36: It will basically be the same as it was in 1.0, so unfortunately it will not be possible to view Eorzea from the air.

Q37: Will there be a feature where we can try on equipment?

A37: We are planning for this; however, it will not make it in time for launch, so it will be some time after.

Q38: Since we will be able to change our genders with the launch of ARR, are there any plans for us to be able to exchange the “fire resistant” gear based on the new gender?

A38: We’re currently looking into how we would like to address this.

Q39: Do you plan on making a guild finder (LS finder) type of feature where you can search for an LS that fits your goals?

A39: The feature you are asking has already been implemented on the Lodestone, so we would first like you to utilize that.

Q40: Will you be implementing a feature where you can directly research monsters and item stats from in-game?

A40: No. However, we are looking into a smart phone app, so we’d like you to research it from that.

Q41: In 1.0, the battle music changed based on what area you were in. Are there any plans to do something similar in ARR?

A41: In ARR, each area is tied to a certain musical instrument. While the battle music will be the same, it will have a different feel to it because of the different musical instruments it will be played on.

Q42: For Beta Test phase 3 you’ll be introducing PS3, as well as Ul’dah and Limsa Lominsa, but are there other elements that will be added?

A42: We are planning to add free companies, guildhests, expanding FATE, early stages of the main story, and more dungeons.

Q43: Could you tell us any new information about the specs for the Armoury (Referred to as the “Armoury Board” previously)?

A43: I thought about if there was anything I could tell you, but basically I had to decide between ease of understanding and convenience, and since I decided on convenience the explanation is going to get quite difficult. To give you a simple idea, it’s like a single macro switch. We’d like you all to try it out in Beta Test phase 3, so please be sure to try it out.

Q44: Are there any plans to implement open world content other than FATE?

A44: While FATE will be the only open world content, there are plenty of aspects of FATE that we have not released. Please stay tuned!

Q45: Could you show us any other limit breaks other than the meteor?

A45: While the limit break system will be available from phase 3 of the Beta Test, we’re currently working on a FF-like trailer to highlight the limit break system. Please stay tuned

Q46: Could you show us how Coerthas and Mor Dhona look in ARR?

A46: Both Coerthas and Mor Dhona will be high-level areas in ARR. You will be able to feel the destruction of the Seventh Umbral Era and the presence of the empire. In addition, the weather will change drastically as you get closer to Ishgard. You will also be able to find dragons within the dungeons.

We are planning to release a trailer in the future so please stay tuned!

Q47: It was mentioned before that we could design linkshell and free company crests by putting together different segments, but can you show us what kind of options there will be?

A47: [Showed an image of the various crests]

After the questionnaire Yoshida briefly introduced a promotional stage event that will be held during Nico Nico Chokaigi between April the 27th and April 28th, featuring a collaboration between Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and Windows 8. The Event will include a customized booth to showcase the game, miqo’te make-up sessions and the introduction of one of the voice actresses. Yoshida-san will also be present together with Masayoshi Soken, that will compose music on the spot.

damm that was to many pictures….

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