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A number of players have turned to Reddit to try and find out why their user accounts have been banned by SE for “Cheating and Botting” but have not done anything. (Example 1, Example 2, Example 3) SE also just posted a notice about activation issues with software purchased through unauthorized 3rd party sellers, specifically purchasing the Steam version through any retailer other than Steam/Valve. Is it possible that these two issues are related somehow, and they linked a number of RMT accounts with purchases of software from other sources? Hopefully very few innocent players were caught up in this dragnet and this issue can be resolved without much problem.
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We have an English translation to FFXIV Producer/Director Yoshi-P’s response to player feedback on the new Novice Network implemented in Patch 3.2. The Official Forums post is rather lengthy, but a quick TL;DR version is as follows:
New Adventurer status will remain until players complete MSQ “Before the Fall” and have played over 168 hours OR have removed the status manually.
Mentors will be removed from the Novice network chat when they go AFK to allow for other mentors to actively participate
The Auto-Join feature will default to Off for mentors in 3.25
Considering different mentor types, eg. DoH/DoL, PvP
Possibility of new players to automatically join or display a confirmation to join the Novice network
The post goes into greater detail on the discussion that the development team has been having regarding this new feature, and hopefully it can become the place where new players can receive the assistance in the game that it was intended to be.
Susan Calloway will be holding an AMA (Ask Me Anything) at Reddit today starting at Noon PDT. The link to the actual thread is not live yet, but this post on the FFXIV Subreddit will update with it as soon as it goes live, and we will update this post with the information as well. If you have time, go check it out, ask Susan a question about her career, how ,she became involved with FFXIV, her favorite color, or whatever burning question you may have for her, and support the FFXIV community. Tell her Phoenix Down Radio sent ya! 🙂
Update: The AMA thread is live!
The Duty Commenced team will be hosting a PVP special – “Culling Time” this Friday, March 18th starting at 3PM PDT at twitch.tv/finalfantasyxiv. They will be playing live from the Sargatanas server and queuing into The Feast, so if you’re on the Aether data center, keep your eyes out for Camate, Zhexos, and Bayohne in your parties.
Yesterday Sony announced the pricing for the PlayStation VR headset. The base unit will run $399 and will require the PlayStation Eye camera for PS4 to handle the motion and positioning controls. With this announcement, the major 3 players in the VR game, Occulus Rift ($600), HTC Vive ($800), and Sony PSVR ($400) have all announced pricing. With all this said, will this impact whether or not you play Final Fantasy XIV in Virtual Reality? What are some of your thoughts on this?
According to an article on gaming website Gematsu, 3 independent sources have confirmed that the long-awaited release of Final Fantasy XV will be on September 30th, 2016. While this is still a rumor, we should learn the true release date on March 30th during the “Uncovered – Final Fantasy XV” event in Los Angeles. If the rumors are true, this is good news indeed for Final Fantasy fans.
The full Gematsu article can be found here.
A huge shout out and congratulations go out to Eskalia and all the #Eskasuals out there for raising $4033.04 for Transgender Michigan over the 34 hour stream. Phoenix Down Radio would like to throw out a special shout out to everyone on #TeamPalindrome, who once again won the donation battle.
The 28th FFXIV Letter from the Producer Live has been announced, and is scheduled to air March 26th at 19:00 JST (6AM EST/3AM PST). Yoshi-P will be answering various questions asked on the Official forums, and will have lead UI artist Hiroshi Minagawa as his guest. {Please look forward to it!}
Links to the various channels will be provided as soon as they are available.
