Every April Fool's Joke Has a Nugget of Truth

Heya! So I just wanted to address the recent April Fool's Joke from a different perspective.

When Viangaa were announced on April Fool's Day, we did indeed end up getting a new race, the Au Ra.

When Lords of Verminion was announced as an April Fool's Joke, we ultimately ended up getting Lords of Verminion for real.

For ChocoGo, I'm trying to discern if there is something within the joke that might actually become real. I want to say that, in the near future, you will be able to play Orchestrion music while mounted.

Thoughts?

Why not an App that connect to the chocobo stable to feed our chocobo and train them from our cellphone?

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Originally Posted by YeaniNah

Why not an App that connect to the chocobo stable to feed our chocobo and train them from our cellphone?

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Not a bad idea!

Tbh I like this idea, also being able to access retainers and play the market through a phone app would be nice.

Why stop at chocobos.

How about anything mini game or gold saucer related playable from our phones.

FF14's Triple Triad on the way home from work, yes please.
Even those grindy MGP mini games would not be so bad if I had nothing else to do sat on a train commuting.

would like to be able to fish from a phone app =3
Not just ANY fishing app but FFXIV fishing.

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Originally Posted by Altanas

FF14's Triple Triad on the way home from work, yes please.

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Already happened, thought based on XIV's version it is independent from it

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Originally Posted by YeaniNah

Why not an App that connect to the chocobo stable to feed our chocobo and train them from our cellphone?

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Like what GTA 5 do to customize the vehicle via phone, yeah.

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Originally Posted by Sakuraluna

Tbh I like this idea, also being able to access retainers and play the market through a phone app would be nice.

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This I so want!

Why can't I just ride around real chocobos in real life? This is what they advertised, and this is what I want!

Personally I'd rather keep anything that has to do with phones, and mobile devices away from the game. They sound like decent QoL improvements on the surface but will ultimately have severely high repercussions to the long term well being of the game. It would be unfair to reward players simply for owning phones leaving those without. phone at a disadvantage. For example being able to check your retainers via phone app would not only crash the market as undercuts would be more frequent then ever, but those without phones would have to camp the retainer bells far more often while those with phones could relist their products mid dungeon rarely ever having to see their bell again. And that's just one example of how mobile apps would destroy the game. There's many more out there. The idea of apps are cute, but if they give players any sort of advantage in game over non phone owners, it wouldn't bold over very well. And let's not even forget the possibilities that would open up for RMT...

I'd rather the dating sim turn out to be real

Probably a sort of auto pilot feature when riding a chocobo. Allowing it to fly or move to any destination on the map you click it to go to. I know I could have appreciated a feature like that everytime I did my daily beast quests because... I press R and then alt-tab >_>

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Originally Posted by Vivi_Bushido

Personally I'd rather keep anything that has to do with phones, and mobile devices away from the game. They sound like decent QoL improvements on the surface but will ultimately have severely high repercussions to the long term well being of the game. It would be unfair to reward players simply for owning phones leaving those without. phone at a disadvantage. For example being able to check your retainers via phone app would not only crash the market as undercuts would be more frequent then ever, but those without phones would have to camp the retainer bells far more often while those with phones could relist their products mid dungeon rarely ever having to see their bell again. And that's just one example of how mobile apps would destroy the game. There's many more out there. The idea of apps are cute, but if they give players any sort of advantage in game over non phone owners, it wouldn't bold over very well. And let's not even forget the possibilities that would open up for RMT...

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Not having a smartphone these days, while apparently having the luxury of being able to play this subscription based game, is extremely rare. We're not talking about the 90s here, nor are we even talking about the early 2000's. In this day and age, teens (the age minimum for this game) generally have smartphones. It's almost an expectation these days. Again, teens, not infants/toddlers/etc.

The worry about the rather insignificant number of players in such a situation is not healthy for the games future. That's literally looking for something to worry about so you can stunt QoL benefits from happening. Progress is never made that way. Besides, being in that situation for said person, is likely the least of their concerns... RL tends to kick you in the ass a lot more often if you're that troubled financially.

Your concern about the undercuts is not going to be as disastrous as you think. WoW, for example, has their mobile armory which lets you do exactly this. Some were concerned about such a thing, but... it really didn't happen any more frequently than it would without it. Truth be told, a mobile access like that would allow almost everyone to take part in such a thing easier, but not many really care. Which means the ones that do, really don't have to lol.

To be honest, I doubt they'd do an AH connection of some sort simply due to how it works in the game currently. When we call out the retainers, we stop posting items. There's a real time removal of your goods from the economy/MB. Such a thing isn't exactly feasible when you carry it over to a mobile list type of UI on a phone, due to the likely speed of connecting between windows for each retainer. In other words, the ability to call a retainer and switch in less than a second on a phone means the game registers this as removing items from the board and listing them again in less than a second... doesn't sound plausible for the servers. If they removed the fact that you stop listing items when a retainer is called out, then the program is likely feasible. Until then though, it's not going to happen.

Edit: Oh and I can kind of understand a different viewpoint of not wanting mobile attachment to the game (though it already exists with the security key and benefits that come with using it). That being wanting everything to be involved with the game, in-game, alone. In other words, the way things were many years ago. The times have changed though, so this is just kind of how it works until the popular mediums change again (or revert in the case of the old).

Instead of "Nuggets of Truth", can we just get chicken nuggets this time? :-D

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Originally Posted by Welsper59

Not having a smartphone these days, while apparently having the luxury of being able to play this subscription based game, is extremely rare. We're not talking about the 90s here, nor are we even talking about the early 2000's. In this day and age, teens (the age minimum for this game) generally have smartphones. It's almost an expectation these days. Again, teens, not infants/toddlers/etc.

The worry about the rather insignificant number of players in such a situation is not healthy for the games future. That's literally looking for something to worry about so you can stunt QoL benefits from happening. Progress is never made that way. Besides, being in that situation for said person, is likely the least of their concerns... RL tends to kick you in the ass a lot more often if you're that troubled financially.

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Guess I should get a smartphone just to play a console game.

There's not always a truth hidden in the jokes, like with the NPC dating system they did one year, nothing came of that, I doubt there's anything more to this one.

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Originally Posted by Nav_Fae

Guess I should get a smartphone just to play a console game.

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Is your not having one keeping you from playing it? No, didn't think so. Likewise, is someone not affording additional retainers keeping them from playing the game? No, didn't think so. In light of that example right there, your fears fall very very short.

By your reply alone, it's very obvious that you're treating the hypothetical situation as though it is mandatory to have every additional function of the game to even play. Your initial fear (and technically fear mongering) gets you nowhere when we have other functions that are optional, but don't break the game.

You mean, my chocobo won't get Wi-Fi? I so was looking forward to browsing the EWW (Eorzean-Wide Web) for my dissertation on Ascians due in July.

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Originally Posted by Nav_Fae

Guess I should get a smartphone just to play a console game.

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You should have one regardless.

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Originally Posted by Ryuko

Why can't I just ride around real chocobos in real life? This is what they advertised, and this is what I want!

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TRUTH~~~! I WANT TO RIDE A REAL CHOCOBO WITH wi-fi capabilities LOL

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Originally Posted by Welsper59

Not having a smartphone these days, while apparently having the luxury of being able to play this subscription based game, is extremely rare. We're not talking about the 90s here, nor are we even talking about the early 2000's. In this day and age, teens (the age minimum for this game) generally have smartphones. It's almost an expectation these days. Again, teens, not infants/toddlers/etc.

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It's not always about not being able to get a smartphone, it could also be about simply not wanting one. While I quite like my smartphone, I have a number of friends that stay with their old phones. Why? Well there are several reasons. And while, granted, none of them plays FFXIV, that doesn't mean there are not players that simply feel better without a smartphone.

I am neutral towards the whole discussion.

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Originally Posted by Nav_Fae

Are you trying to have a conversation with me, or a conversation with yourself by putting words in my mouth?

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Sorry, I assumed too much when asking a simple question with an obvious answer based on the fact that you have an account and character made. I'd love to have that conversation with you.

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Originally Posted by Chessala

It's not always about not being able to get a smartphone, it could also be about simply not wanting one. While I quite like my smartphone, I have a number of friends that stay with their old phones. Why? Well there are several reasons. And while, granted, none of them plays FFXIV, that doesn't mean there are not players that simply feel better without a smartphone.

I am neutral towards the whole discussion.

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It's the same thing though. I have a coworker who doesn't want a smartphone, and thus does not have one. Doesn't change the fact that it's a minority situation, with an even smaller pool of numbers to grab from within this games population. Withholding a beneficial QoL improvement, if they were to do it (which I doubt they will), because of something like that is just outright stupid.

This is coming from the fact we already have something like the mobile security keys for smartphones out there, and it benefits smartphone users, but doesn't benefit others. They could get the physical token, but they have to pay for it, versus smartphone users who get it for free. Not entirely a fair situation. What about the people who want the free teleport benefit of the security token, but don't want to spend the money for the physical token and don't have a smartphone? I see no sympathy for them.

Again though, the original argument was about it somehow destroying the economy and preventing people because of undercut wars (which already exist btw). It won't happen any more than it already does, and one perfect example for evidence is WoW with their mobile armory. As I said, that was an initial fear, but it was not at all a thing that happened. That is the main focus. Everything else was based on logic, which apparently people are defying... for some reason... I guess that's just the forums for you.

I thought this thread was going to be about the JP side, which got the post about players being able to romance the knights 12 and Aymeric and stuff...

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Originally Posted by Cabalabob

There's not always a truth hidden in the jokes, like with the NPC dating system they did one year, nothing came of that, I doubt there's anything more to this one.

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there is the wedding thing and im pretty sure some couple were created in FF14.
and some do the wedding with people like that for the bonus not know who the person really is.

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Originally Posted by Duelle

I thought this thread was going to be about the JP side, which got the post about players being able to romance the knights 12 and Aymeric and stuff...

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That sounds like a fun and creative discussion...something that happens once in a blue moon on the general forums.

Isn't this April Fools already in game? We have Chocobo Porters

I don't even own a Cellphone I'm still using my house phone for everything. I have no need for a smartphone or a cellphone in my daily life

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Originally Posted by Shinun

Isn't this April Fools already in game? We have Chocobo Porters

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Yeah but those chocos don't have wifi