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Foxclon: It's about time, so want to get into the closing
Foxclon: Do we have "Welcome Back" campaign for FFXIV 2.0 Launch?
Yoshida: Didn't we have a power point for this?
Yoshida: For XIV client, you will be able to download for free
Yoshida: If you used up the 30 free days, then you can use this to come back
Foxclon: Another one, you mentioned about barber, will there be items where you can change race at a later time?
Yoshida: Before I answer that, I attended a stock holders meeting and they requested
Yoshida: We have something called Veteran Rewards
Yoshida: Say there are different subscription courses for XIV, if you do 30, 60, 90 days as a thank you gift, we have items and mounts
Foxclon: You mentioned something big
Yoshida: Go to next
Yoshida: Might feel like you have to play for a year but you'll get a reward from just 30 days
Yoshida: You'll get the finger cursor minion!
Yoshida: And go to other screen...
Yoshida: Another one is character remake ticket
Yoshida: It's hard to go through character choices so when you're playing for the first 30 days you'll see other players and feell like you should have changed some stuff/race, so we don't want player motivation to go down
Yoshida: For those who wants to continue playing 30 days and more, we will have something where players can decide to change
Yoshida: Ok 60 days, doesn't mean you'll get sexy Miqo'te
Yoshida: We have black fire resistant gear and black chocobo minion
Rie: Cute
Yoshida: On top of that 90 days, we have Beady Eye minion, let's look at live
Rie: This is cute
Foxclon: this is cute
Yoshida: On top of that we have mount
Yoshida: Please show the screen
Rie: This is cool
Yoshida: 30, 60, 90 days we'll have more....120 or 180
Yoshida: So does that mean you'll need to play 30 days straight or 90 days?
Yoshida: You'll be already paying up front and we'll receive your payment so you'll get these right away
Yoshida: Also the game cards I explained from earlier shops, those have 60 days so you earn these rewards from from that as well
Yoshida: We'll continue to do this with patches so, as you continue to enjoy playing, you'll get more fun stuff
Yoshida: We will have lots of mounts available
Yoshida: Making sure the character is holding on to the mount
Yoshida: I have everything ready, prepared from the beginning, it's not just the battle content but also things like crafting, gathering, housing. There were comments that Yoshida only concentrate on battle contents
Yoshida: In order to get job quests you'll need to try other classes, you'll have stuff that's all set so as you play you'll know what to do
Yoshida: Also we showed different arts in the past... but there are
Yoshida: I've been saying the battle is very important and there is a reason behind it so we really want the players to decide
(YoshiP is talking about the reasonings and idealogy behind the game systems. The translation here is missing a few things, will add it in when Rein's had time to look at it again)
Rie: I'm happy I was able to get in here
Yoshida: It was a really last minute request
Yoshida: Moving forward we really shouldn't forget how producer letter live brought back the fresh feeling
Yoshida: So we'll have troubles during live broadcast but please bare with us and enjoy
Foxclon: oh yeah forgot one more thing, we have launch coming up
Foxclon: Launch will be out in every region and YoshiP will not be in Japan in order to attend events
Foxclon: We have a power point available for different events
Foxclon: 08/21-25 which coincides with Early Access period, YoshiP will be at Gamescom
Yoshida: They have a lot of players, there are tons of PC gamers
Yoshida: They throw PC parts to the fans, it's crazy
Foxclon: We'll have Yoshida-san do a presentation and have the battle challenge similar to E3 version of Ifrit battle, but this one is a new version where you fight Titan
Rie: I want to fight Titan
Foxclon: You get a cool shirt
Yoshida: I checked the shirt but it's really cool, it has a message "I Beat Titan" on it and it's cool
Foxclon: We also have fan signing event, people in Japan talk about this have this
Yoshida: Yes
Yoshida: Last year, it was the timing around when ARR's client was first released, since then it's been a year
Foxclon: Now we're back in Germany at the timing of Launch
Foxclon: so for those there, going there from other country, Japan
Yoshida: There was someone at Japan Expo who came from Japan, I was suprised!
Foxclon: 08/27 launch event in Japan here will have announcement for the media and for those that won the invitation, we'll have mini producer's letter live and we'll have the core development team members at this event
Foxclon: We'll have questions from forums again for this
Yoshida: How many viewers do we have?
Foxclon: Almost 10x more than before
Foxclon: The invitation chance might be low but please try it out
Foxclon: We also have where you can see FFXIV optimal PC's displayed for users to check out
Foxclon: (talks about signing and hand shake event)
Yoshida: I sad that's not good for Japan so was talking to the others
Foxclon: Well you are going to Europe, Japan and then there's US still
Foxclon: There was one more
Foxclon: We'll be at Pax Prime in Seattle on 08/30, and we'll need to be there so...
Yoshida: Who?
Foxclon: You and we'll have Soken there as well
Yoshida: Soken-chan.... (editor's note /dies from laffing)
Rie: Soken san got hit hard yesterday
Foxclon: We'll have event where people can meet and also do battle challenge for Titan
Yoshida: We'll have battle challenge for Japan also as we have in the other regions
Yoshida: Gamescom is 08/19 right and I have to be back in Japan on the 27th and that is from the morning right?
Yoshida: And Pax Prime rehearsal is...29th?
Yoshida: so on the 28th I have to catch a flight
Foxclon: Yes yes
Yoshida: WHEN do I have time to level up...!!?.
Foxclon: Hmmm....September!
Yoshida: What about launch rush?...........
Foxclon: Don't worry!
Foxclon: Have lots of people asking to help for Gamescom
Foxclon: I'll be in London and meet up in Germany
Foxclon: So I'll be missing both beta and early access, so you're better off
Yoshida: So I'll just level up with a notebook
Yoshida: I can use duty finder I guess
Yoshida: I don't want to be left behind by the players
Rie: Sorry we'll be having fun
Foxclon: We would like to celebrate with everyone
Yoshida: Want to celebrate but I also want to play...
Foxclon: The event will be broadcasted and details will follow
Yoshida: Once the launch is up we'll go to different places to have fun with the players
Foxclon: Okay, we went through everything, today was long, was 2 and a half hours
Foxclon: Tanaka Rie-san can you please leave a comment
Rie: Thank you for having me on this 8th letter live, would like to be invited in future events
Yoshida: Don't worry about me
Rie: If there are any other events, please let me know
Yoshida: I really try not to look at the questions before hand, the community team picks them and... what was I going to say?
Foxclon and Rie: We don't know... (here have some moogle powah)
Yoshida: Well when we have player videos up we're going to have regulation up soon, which shows what you can use, we'll try to make it so you can use a lot
Yoshida: Collector's edition!
Foxclon: This is the final edition
Foxclon: We have lots inside
Yoshida: Art card, sound track, 7th umbral era video and game itself, and artbook
Yoshida: This is simple, but....
Yoshida: It's done
Yoshida: Looks like you can't purchase it online now, but there are some more at local stores
Yoshida: You don't do this now but you can go through yellow pages and call each store to check
Yoshida: You should be able to find them somewhere
Rie: I was actually one of them, couldn't buy online so I had to get it at the store
Foxclon: Ok last words from Yoshida-san
Yoshida: On our first live letter, in the first half of the event we mentioned that we had second half, and in the 2nd half, we announced ARR and have been working on it since then
Yoshida: From Beta 3, we are open only for 13 days but we had lots of players who played over 30 hours, which was amazing
Yoshida: We have been receiving lots of supporting comments and we really thank the players for that
Yoshida: I apologize that the beta 3 characters will be wiped but we'll have beta 4 so please continue to play and have fun, please look forward to it, thank you
Foxclon: Ok so we'll see you again at the event or the next live broadcast
Yoshida: Some are saying Yoshida-san is going to quit, but I"m not going to quit anytime soon. I'm going to keep on going so please continue playing with us
Foxclon, Rie, Yoshida: Bye~
Yoshida: Man... this was long!
Thanks to Reinheart for his translations! Once corrections and more editing is done, I'll update the subs