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Final Fantasy XIV: Letter from the Producer LIVE II Details
Oct 27th
The Final Fantasy team has announced that the second Letter from the Producer LIVE event will be held on Thursday, November 3rd at 12:00 a.m. PST. The event is held via YouTube with players submitting questions to the dev team via Twitter.
The discussion this time will focus particularly on the recent deployment of the v1.19 patch and the road to v2.0 recently announced via the official site.
Read the full details on the Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone.
Final Fantasy XIV: Working List of Changes Coming in v1.19a
Oct 13th
The Final Fantasy XIV team has posted the working notes for the upcoming v1.19a patch. The team will be addressing several key features including the Battle system, adding a new Grand Company side quest, adjusting prices on some NPC vendor items, system adjustments and important bug fixes.
As always, the list is quite comprehensive and includes notes from the dev team. You can read the full list of the proposed changes for patch v1.19a on the Final Fantasy XIV forum.
Additionally, the team has also posted a new lore piece surrounding the All Saint's Wake event scheduled to run from October 18th through November 1st. You can read up on the event on the Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone.
Final Fantasy XIV: Letter from the Producer LIVE Notes Posted
Oct 7th
Both the video and the transcript from last week's Letter from the Producer LIVE YouTube event has been posted on the Final Fantasy XIV site.
The discussion lasted over ninety minutes with the discussion covered a wide variety of topics ranging from the simplification of the party formation system to whether or not female chocobos will ever be included in the game to getting some pointers for defeating Ifrit.
It's a huge discussion with lots of interesting tidbits and even a few hints as to future plans.
Read the full transcript on the Final Fantasy XIV site.
Final Fantasy XIV: Ifrit, the Primal of Fire
Oct 4th
The Final Fantasy XIV team has a new blog post on the Lodestone that describes the upcoming battle with Ifrit, the Primal of Fire. This new 'battle content' will arrive with the v1.19 patch is released.
The Ifrit battles come in two flavors: Standard for level 30 parties of four members; and Hard Mode for parties of eight at level 50. According to the information posted on the Lodestone, the battles will feature an unfolding story similar to regular quests but that give meaning to the hunt for and final battle with Ifrit.
Players successfully taking on and defeating Ifrit will score some pretty awesome loot in the form of Primal Weapons.
Read more about the Ifrit battle on the Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone.
Thanks to Murugan for the tip.
Final Fantasy XIV: Planned Recipe Changes Detailed
Sep 29th
The Final Fantasy XIV team has laid out all of the proposed changes to the game's recipes. Details are revealed about new recipes and changes made to existing recipes.
The overhaul to the recipe system is one of the most-anticipated features coming with next week's v1.19 patch.
Read all of the details on the Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone.
Final Fantasy XIV: Celebrating the First Year with a Live Webcast
Sep 28th
The Final Fantasy XIV team has announced that a live webcast will be held on October 4th. The webcast, called Live Letter from the Producer, will be held via YouTube Live and will feature Producer Naoki Yoshida answering questions from the community during the event.
The chat will be held at 5:00 pm PST on October 4th just in time to answer players' pressing questions about the latest patch that will be released that same day!
Final Fantasy XIV: Continuing Our Reform Work
Sep 28th
Andriasang is reporting that during a press event yesterday, Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada spoke about upcoming titles currently in development and, simultaneously, offered a few thoughts about Final Fantasy XIV.
Square Enix has been implementing fixes for FFXIV since earlier this year. Said Wada about the fixes, "We'll continue with our reform work, which basically amounts to fully redoing the game, and hope to revive the FFXIV that should have been released."
The latest patch for Final Fantasy XIV is expected to be released on October 4th as the team continues, as Wada said, the "reform" of the game.
FFXIV continues to be subscription free as the dev team works to respond to player concerns and to improve features that were considered poorly implemented at launch. The community remains split as to how successful the reform has been.
Thanks to Torvac for the tip!
Final Fantasy XIV: New Patch Coming October 4th
Sep 27th
The Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone has been updated with an outline of the notes for the highly anticipated v1.19 patch. The patch is set to deploy on October 4th and brings several significant features to FFXIV.
According to a new Producer's Letter, the patch has been delayed slightly to accommodate more stability and to give the dev team more time for debugging.
To give players a bit of a heads up about the patch, the team has laid out the major changes coming in the v1.19 patch and indicated that both Ixal stronghold (Natalan) and Guildleve history evaluations will be delayed to the v1.19a update.
Read both the Producer's Letter and check out the patch out line on the Final Fantasy XIV site.
Final Fantasy XIV: Of Chocobos and Airships
Sep 22nd
The Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone has been updated with new information about two features that have been long-anticipated: Chocobo mounts and Airships!
Players will have the ability to earn a Chocobo whistle by joining one of the Grand Companies and purchase the whistle with 3,000 company seals.
For those players who find that a steep price to pay, Chocobos will be available for rent. Chocobos can be rented in several locations for 800 gil for a ten minute ride.
Airships will also be arriving with v1.19 and will allow players quick transport between the three city state of Limsa Lominsa, Ul'dah and Gridania.
Read more about both new modes of transportation on the Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone.
Final Fantasy XIV: Patch v1.19 Delayed to Sep. 30th
Sep 21st
In the latest Letter from the Producer, Naoki Yoshida has announced that the deployment of the v1.19 patch has been delayed until September 30th to ensure that the update has adequate QA and testing.
While this news is disappointing to many players who, fair or not, expected the patch release this week, Yoshida did reveal a pair of nice perks coming in the patch:
- An additional hundred item slots per character
- An additional fifty item slots per retainer
Lastly, September 30th is the first anniversary of Final Fantasy XIV. Yoshida is promising a "more lively" producer's letter before that date.
Read the full letter on the Final Fantasy XIV forum.