Newest producer's letter looks forward to player-owned chocobos in Final Fantasy XIV

Yoshida should have been in on this game from day one. This guy was given the impossible job of turning around a game that had already flopped, but it turns out he may be a bit of a miracle worker.

If SE is willing to continue backing this guy and then do a "relaunch", I think this game might actually turn around.

1.19 looks huge! I can't wait.

WOO AIRSHIPS!

Hiking one of my lowbies from Gridania to Limsa Lominsa was not fun.

(Also airships are awesome.)

The changes are great. However, Can't say I'll be playing until we see the full relaunch. I'd hate to experience all the changes in the middle of playing the game.

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An in-depth system like that could be interesting but I don't think the fact they're adding one type of personal chocobo now rules out a breeding system further down the road. They added one to FF11 years after it came out.

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They had it in FFXI and it was terrible. Players cared about it for maybe a month before realizing how bad it was. They've already said that Chocobo breeding will be in the far future. I'd be up for chocobo racing again if we were given control of the mounts during the race... but since everyone would think they're in first place because of server lag I don't think it would be possible.

@Mevan

It should be considerably better than XI's breading system since you'll be able to straight up trade or sell the chocobo you've bread. This will be great for players that have the time to dedicate to such things as breading because they'll be able able to make some good gil out of it. And it'll be great for the player who isn't able to plop down for hours to play because they'll just be able to buy their chocobo.

All my friends got pissed when they pulled Yoshida from XI. Looks like maybe Squeenix might be able to right this sinking ship. I'm not sold yet, but it's moving in the right direction, good job on Yoshida's end at least. As far as him needing a raise, I wouldn't doubt given the overall opinion of gamers of this game since he took the helm that he has already been given at least one.

Its like a porta potti thats messed up and was never cleaned. The new guy doing the cleaning has the porta potti looking pretty good and people tip him well because of his work....but, the stigma of all the cr@p....that happened in the last porta potti is still there, and the smell is next to impossible to get rid of, no matter how good a cleaner you are. (Evil grin)

Is this the one that covers classes and jobs? I heard paladin said alot in producer letters. I was curious of a 2h sword class.

I had pre-ordered this game. Got into the open beta and canceled. On one hand I would like to see this game do well because SquareSoft was my favorite gaming company when I was a kid. But on the other hand, I can't fathom releasing a FF game without chocobos. This game was released in such a terrible state that any company that felt that was ready should really get an over haul. The hubris of Square-Enix with regards to the FF franchise is a huge turn off. The game was STUNNINGLY bad. That fact reflects so poorly on Square-Enix that I'm almost afraid to try other games from them now.

I know I give Eliot a hard time when it comes to FFXIV. I can appreciate his stick-to-it-ness and even share in his hopes that FFXIV can improve. However, I sometimes feel he may be a bit disingenuous when it comes to how he truly feels about the game. I find it hard to believe that such a well played gamer could find such an unfinished game worth playing. Sometimes I feel that perhaps he is telling himself he enjoys the game, because he has to write articles about it; so he overstates his enjoyment of the game until he believes it. Honestly, I'm glad he does it though. Someone has to keep us posted on the state of the game so we all don't have to keep reactivating our accounts just to taste that bitter taste of disappointment all over again. Good on you Mr. Lefebvre!