Producer's Live Letter 89

Systems and Tech

New UI Color Themes

That's it, enjoy!

Strategy Board

The long awaited!

These will be possible to share with a code.

They have added the official markers to it but plan on expanding it more in the future.

New UI Feature: Command Panel

This one has been kept hidden, and it's still not quite ready for live, more details to come on the next PLL.

This will be a panel that can be opened and closed and will accept anything that could be added to a hotbar, providing a convenient location to store functions and other things that you only need some time (e.g. emotes, gear sets, crafting macros).

This will have 4 panels with 25 slots each and the intention behind it is to save space on your hotbars and provide a way to clean up your HUD if you choose to use it.

Glamour Update - Unrestricted Glamours

Hey, get that Dark Knight, he stole my robes!

In a follow-up response to the modding posts Yoshi P did lately, they want to provide everyone with more ways to enjoy the game.

Hence, this update will bring some changes to the way glamouring works in the game.

Previously, you could not glamour your gear with pieces of gear from other jobs, or even with pieces of gear of your own job if the glamour being used was from a gear piece that was higher level than your character.

Both of these things will be changed, so going forward, you will be able to use any* gear in your glamours, irrespective of class, job or level restrictions.

*By any, this means only body worn pieces, weapons and tools can only be equipped by the corresponding class (e.g. two-handed swords can only be glamoured into another two-handed sword). So no dual wielding frying pans, yet! 🍳

Housing upgrades

This one, is still in the works.

Basically, the item increase that they're trying to do, is being a major pain for them, infrastructure wise, and they're still working on it.

Yoshi P provided a long explanation, which has been lovingly translated by iluna minori by request of many Eorzeans.

I will post the full translation as extracted from the Final Fantasy XIV Discord

Translation

Yoshida: Right now I'm seeing everyone from Housing side feeling jealous here, but we are currently entering the final stage of the optimization push to increase the placement limit for for the addition of slots for outdoor furnishings and indoor furniture....
I'm so sorry that it ended up taking that much time, and I'm very sure we can get it done by Patch 7.5.
I'm confident that we are able to increase the outdoor furnishing/indoor furnishing placement amount by around 1.5x, and we're currently entering the final stage of optimizations.
Currently we're focusing on the speeding up the servers, and that's what we are doing right now.

Foxclon: So if you could provide us detailed explanation on the matter...

Yoshida: For this...umm, well, you see...basically the so-called number of objects that can be placed — meaning where the players place these objects — are information we obviously have to manage entirely via our servers.
Of course this is a given when the players log out of the game, I mean, they have to log out, right?
So this means when the amount becomes 1.5 times higher than the total volume, our beloved CPU-kun has to keep track of it all, and you can imagine our CPU-kun goes “Gyaaaah!” and “Aaaah!” with that kind of work load.
Under normal operations, we can manage it somehow, sure; but let's say when maintenance happens and we have to restart the server (for example), if we turn off CPU-kun's power, you can imagine CPU-kun would just go blank face at you.
Now, imagine me go "Now, CPU-kun, rise from your slumber so that you can welcome our lord players into the gaaaaame!".
When that happens, CPU-kun will have to go through the process to  memorize everything all over again, and when the volume is now 1.5 times more, the CPU-kun will just hold its head and go “WAAAAAAAAAAH!!!”, which cause the time it takes to open the server getting higher...
Yep, that's exactly it.
In other words, and to simply put, we're optimizing them so that the server memorizes them quicker than what they're doing currently.  
And then you see, since we have so many worlds, if we get into cases where we need to perform emergency maintenance for whatever reason that comes up, like taking it down for a second and fixing it right away, it will end up taking three times as long... or something like that.
Plus, this was mentioned in the past but I mentioned something about how you can get your housing interior to be glamoured into L size regardless of your current house size (Size L, Size M,  Size S), right?
Well the system is almost complete, actually, it's finished — but here's the thing: assuming everyone switches to L size, this will also cause the number of furniture slot placement to increase, right?
In this case, CPU-kun would...well, imagine if the CPU-kun have to perform two of these tasks simultaneously...

Foxclon: This means CPU-kun would already...

Yoshida: Yep, imagine that CPU-kun's eyes would go bloodshot and wring my neck because of all the sufferring...so for now, we are going to work on the final stage of optimizing the numbers where players can place and manage, and then increase these numbers.
That way, we can then increase the amount of placement number for S-size house owners, same goes for M-size house owners, and finally the L-size house owners as well.
So we really need to get this part done properly first.
Once this is done, we can finally work on allowing players to be able to change their interior size while ignoring that house size...we're aiming to deliver not only for indoor furnishings but also outdoor furnishings simultaneously, so we're definitely in the final push for the optimization.
So it would be greatly appreciated if players could just wait a little more...
We're working and determined to make it happen without players having to get this update on the next expansion, and once we're done with this, we can then FINALLY move into the glamour plates....and so on...!

Foxclon: One by one, in order...

Yoshida: The plates are the same as well!
You can imagine the servers go "ARRGHGHGHGHGH" over this.
Of course, being able to swap them instantly means it will involve some form of server communication and other factors.
(Some parts omitted)
Well, beyond that, we also want to add more content...especially as a future challenge, where we want to add more things we can do in public fields※.
You are aware that we can only display current buffs up to 30 in a screen now, yes?
We really want to optimize that and do something about it, making it possible to develop more ways to play...
Well this would involve future content and I might getting ahead of myself here, but we plan to optimize things in order, step-by-step like this, making everyone's experience a lot more comfortable.
For now, glamour is going to go through huge changes, and we are now working on the final phases of optimization on housing here, so I'd appreciate everyone's support on the matter.

※ Public field likely refers to the zones that are not cities. You know, the place where you do your FATE / Sightseeing log / taking Gposes

Outside of Game

Fan Festival 2026 in Anaheim

Eorzean Symphony 2025

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Data collected from

• Final Fantasy XIV Discord - Live Letter Translations
• Official Livestream