What happened to the FFXI mobile version? Can we have some news?

[Samourai]

[QUOTE=Zoner;570842]Considering this game worked on the PS2 with dial-up and the Galaxy S6 is 5 times more powerful than the PS2, a 1:1 conversion doesn't seem too far fetched.

The game is already in beta in Japan and looks nothing like FFXI more like FF3 lol just check on youtube.
https://youtu.be/nCfehmZZlgM

[Catmato]

The game is already in beta in Japan and looks nothing like FFXI more like FF3 lol just check on youtube.
https://youtu.be/nCfehmZZlgM

Grandmasters isn't the mobile version; it's an entirely new game being developed separately by a different developer. Also, I'm pretty sure Grandmasters is out of beta.

[Alhanelem]

[QUOTE=Samourai;570986]

Considering this game worked on the PS2 with dial-up and the Galaxy S6 is 5 times more powerful than the PS2, a 1:1 conversion doesn't seem too far fetched.

The game is already in beta in Japan and looks nothing like FFXI more like FF3 lol just check on youtube.
https://youtu.be/nCfehmZZlgM

That's not the FFXI mobile, that's an entirely seperate game. Both Grandmasters and this "Mobile FFXI" were mentioned in the same announcement.

[Zoner]

Still no news?

[Pixela]

Probably been canned.

[Secondplanet]

I can see the budget for it going towards FFXIV mobile :P

[Angemon]

FFXIV is free to play for 4 days or something, is it really doing that well in sales?

[Alhanelem]

FFXIV is free to play for 4 days or something, is it really doing that well in sales?

What are you insinuating?

They do this a few weeks after every major patch. Even the early ones had this. It's not free for everyone, just existing players. In fact, almost every MMO does this, because there are always some people that leave or take a break after they've accomplished all their goals. No MMO, not FFXIV, not FFXI, not WoW, or any other, or any other multiplayer game for that matter has a 100% player retention rate, and when you add new things to a game that players who left might be interested in, you want to make it easy for them to come back. That doesn't mean a game had poor sales or a low subscriber base.

FFXI was doing campaigns like this (Return To Vanadiel campaigns) long before its population started to decline. Such campaigns are not in any way indicative of the health of a game.

I'm not even sure how this has anything whatsoever to do with the topic at hand.

[machini]

No, XIV is not doing well.

The sheer amount of money they have poured into that hole, they cannot be anywhere near having recovered it, let alone turned a profit. Consider not only the entire cost of 1.0, but then of 2.0 on top of that.

[Angemon]

No, XIV is not doing well.

The sheer amount of money they have poured into that hole, they cannot be anywhere near having recovered it, let alone turned a profit. Consider not only the entire cost of 1.0, but then of 2.0 on top of that.

I think you are right, FFXI never did these campaigns so early into its life.