Ideas for a Final Fantasy: A Realm Reborn mobile apps.

I just thought of some ways that SE could do and impliment with mobile apps that can connect to our characters on Final Fantasy XIV, while we are not online on the game.

This one came to me last night. Since A Realm Reborn will be focusing on Chocobo development, there should be an app that connects to our game so that we can raise our Chocobo on the go! Think of it as a virtual pet. We can check on our Chocobo and help raise them while we aren't physically able to play the game. Say that you're on a trip and you decide that you want to raise your Chocobo while on it. You log into the app using your Square-Enix account (we could use our tokens, but that's up to SE) and you can then access your character's Chocobo. There you can raise it as a virtual pet. See, I found it extremely frustrating when I played Final Fantasy XI with raising the Chocobo, because at the time I was busy with high school and homework, so I didn't have time to log into the game and raise my own personal Chocobo (you miss a day raising the Chocobo, your chances of bonding with it lessen and it runs away). This way with Final Fantasy XIV, we raise our Chocobo on the fly. Plus another thing with our Chocobo is that since an iPhone has an accelerometer, we could take them for walks. On the walks, our Chocobo could find items (food, crafting materials, crystals) or even special gear for our main characters.

Another thing is that we can check our inventory using an app, or for our retainers' sales.

We could also have a type of scanner. Say if a gaming magazine has a type of Final Fantasy card in there. We wouldn't know what the card has, but it has a type of bar/block code for us to scan. We scan it with our phone and then get unique gear or items that way, too. If GameInformer or something had a card, we would scan it with our phone. The phone would see it with its camera and then unlock the item, then we send it via our Square-Enix account to our characters' via the Delivery Moogles. These cards could come in a series but are randomized whenever we find one, so we won't know what the item is until we scan it. The items could make up a whole collection of gear (a complete set of gear, like how our jobs have the Artifact Gear) to use for our characters, or could be rare items.

What do you guys/gals think?

Love the chocobo idea even though i don't have phone from this generation.

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Originally Posted by Volfield

Love the chocobo idea even though i don't have phone from this generation.

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Well, the apps will possibly be available on both Android and iOS. Square-Enix has said that before that they are thinking about releasing some type of smartphone apps.

I also had another idea for an app, and this is for bragging rights, lol. We have one to view our characters and to show off them with their equipment. Wouldn't people like to brag and show off their character that is equipped in AF or with rare weapons? :) I would.

I hope they bring some PSVita apps, too

The chocobo idea is great idea.

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Originally Posted by Felis

I hope they bring some PSVita apps, too

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I believe they are, seeing as there is a PS3 version of the game :) Though I don't own a Vita and don't want one, there will be. I think it would be easier on the Vita as well if they did something like the Chocobo raising on the go, as you have the convential buttons for input. However since smartphones have 3G/4G and are always connected, they would be a solid choice as well.

I think they mentioned the chocobo idea and I would love it if that happened :o
Chocobo raising is my main priority concerning apps :D

Checking on retainers(or AH?) /buying / selling would be very convenient too.
And I'd love it if there was a..kind of dress room like app in which we can try out different clothes and weapons and colors to see how it looks, how it affects stats etc.
Funny mini games would be okay too, as long as they don't affect your character in any way ingame or reward good gear, otherwise it wouldn't be fair for people who do not own a smartphone.

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Originally Posted by Atoli

I think they mentioned the chocobo idea and I would love it if that happened :o
Chocobo raising is my main priority concerning apps :D

Checking on retainers(or AH?) /buying / selling would be very convenient too.
And I'd love it if there was a..kind of dress room like app in which we can try out different clothes and weapons and colors to see how it looks, how it affects stats etc.
Funny mini games would be okay too, as long as they don't affect your character in any way ingame or reward good gear, otherwise it wouldn't be fair for people who do not own a smartphone.

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The Chocobo raising idea that I got is from Final Fantasy XI, but I thought of other things (video games and such) that I've known over the years. I'm not going to list the games I got the ideas from due to me coming up with the ideas (I don't want anyone to steal my idea lol).

A crafting app would be ace

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

The Chocobo raising idea that I got is from Final Fantasy XI, but I thought of other things that I've known over the years. (I don't want anyone to steal my idea lol)

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SE already said months ago that chocobo raising is one of their ideas on FFXIV apps :rolleyes:

Is this thing safe?

Actually, if you guys remember Tamagotchi, it can be like that. To raise chocobo from an app on our phones.


"The Tamagotchi (たまごっち, Tamagotchi?) is a handheld digital pet, created in Japan by Akihiro Yokoi of WiZ and Aki Maita of Bandai. It was first sold by Bandai in 1996 in Japan. As of 2010, over 76 million Tamagotchis have been sold world-wide.[1] Most Tamagotchis are housed in a small egg-shaped computer with an interface usually consisting of three buttons, although the number of buttons may vary for different variations."

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Originally Posted by Atoli

SE already said months ago that chocobo raising is one of their ideas on FFXIV apps :rolleyes:

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Really? I didn't know that, lol. If so, would we be able to sync the app to our character in the game?

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Usually ideas like this are Auction house or something equally pedestrian. Even if Chocobo raising is on their list. I like the OP's specific ideas. (Especially the one about taking Chocobos for walks and finding things etc.) Might be a way to "encourage" talking some walks instead of staying in the chair for long periods. Especially if theres "bonus" to using it once in a while. 2x Gyashi Greens!

I like the Chocobo raising idea, the scanning of stuff kind of puts me off.

A one stop all sort of app would be nice, Chocobo raising, Auctions, mobile authenticator, Player Armory/profile(to show up your character), mail system to send mail to friends in game, and a private company communication(talk in real time with your company), raid calendar connected to the private company calendar. Have all this so you can keep track of everything from outside of FFXIV, the only thing you can't do is play the game.

My idea would be a mobile yet connected card game. I believe we are getting some kind of card game in 2.0 or after launch. Your smart phone would works as a mobile game board for the card game. You can play other people for fun or for keeps. All from your phone, the cards will also be shared with your characters cards, so you win cards while battling people from your phone you get the winnings in game you lose on the phone you lose in the game. That is if you play for keeps or not.

Might be a fun thing to do trade cards with facebook friends or battle them.

This would build the community pillar even stronger and giving to option to post your winning on facebook or other social networks would put FFXIV in every day talk. Giving people who have some sort of idea about the game some incentive to look into what it is all about.

Anything to help spread the word about the game and increasing players.

And there could be so much more practical applications to this, other than raising chocobos... Great idea! I want to see this on iOS, as it seems to be the favorite platform of SE. :)

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Originally Posted by Allcars

Might be a fun thing to do trade cards with facebook friends or battle them.

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Although I would love an app for all sorts of things, I do not, under any circumstances, want it connected to Facebook. The rules governing apps on Facebook and the data it collects is not something that I want tying into an account that I have a security token to help me protect. Sorry.

Other than that, I like the idea of the chocobo raising thing. Since that would clearly connect it to our personal game data already, it would be nice to have the ability to send mail, as someone mentioned. I care less about the AH abilities. That sounds like it could get unwieldy.

I'd like to either have SE's app contain, or have FFXIV Pro update, to include new timers for everything. Show me when leve reset is, hamlets are up (well, whatever the new thing is since I assume Hamlet defense will be changed), anima recharge, ship timers, etc.

I'd also like to retain the ability to look up characters on Lodestone that FFXIV Pro currently provides, with recent progress and all.

Additionally, I'd like to see it contain the current list of any item turn-ins that may be up with Grand Companies or whatever. If there's a place I can turn in items for something, I want to see what is currently being asked for. Ideally, it would have real-time updates of what has already been turned in if there are visible limits in the game, but I will settle for what they are actually asking for now.

Not crazy about the idea of collectible cards you can scan for items. That just goes down a whole other road that I don't think I want to tread. If they were to do that, I'd much prefer it was vanity items only (like the Yukatas). Otherwise it becomes spending a ton of cash randomly hoping to get the cool armor you really need, or whatever. If they want to go that route, just open a cash shop, but I'd rather not see that happen. I pay a subscription fee to play the game. If I suddenly have to start dropping hundreds of dollars on items to keep me able to participate in content, I will turn around and walk away again.

I have the same feeling about finding items while taking your chocobo for a walk. It's cute, but I walk an awful lot in a day. I could see it getting to be a big deal if it gave out really useful stuff, which is what people are usually looking for when they mention stuff like that. People usually want to find cobalt ore and materia or something, not a Roost Biscuit.

In order for something like that not to become "a necessity", you would have to only find "useless" things like fireworks; or only be able to find moko seeds or something that you could trade a crazy number of to a moogle for some food. Something like that. I don't want to see an out of game app become a "necessary" part of playing the game where you are seriously hampered by not having it. Knowing how hardcore some people can get, if you could get really useful items at all easily from it, it would become that way in a hurry.

Love the chocobo idea. I also hope they add a mobile authenticator because I absolutely hate walking around with this key dongle in order to log into the forums and such when away from home. It would be nice to already have it on my phone.

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Originally Posted by AliceKaye

Love the chocobo idea. I also hope they add a mobile authenticator because I absolutely hate walking around with this key dongle in order to log into the forums and such when away from home. It would be nice to already have it on my phone.

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I forgot about that! An app dongle for FFXIV would be great in case we misplaced our original dongle, or the battery ran out on it.

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Originally Posted by Azraelle

Although I would love an app for all sorts of things, I do not, under any circumstances, want it connected to Facebook. The rules governing apps on Facebook and the data it collects is not something that I want tying into an account that I have a security token to help me protect. Sorry.

Other than that, I like the idea of the chocobo raising thing. Since that would clearly connect it to our personal game data already, it would be nice to have the ability to send mail, as someone mentioned. I care less about the AH abilities. That sounds like it could get unwieldy.

I'd like to either have SE's app contain, or have FFXIV Pro update, to include new timers for everything. Show me when leve reset is, hamlets are up (well, whatever the new thing is since I assume Hamlet defense will be changed), anima recharge, ship timers, etc.

I'd also like to retain the ability to look up characters on Lodestone that FFXIV Pro currently provides, with recent progress and all.

Additionally, I'd like to see it contain the current list of any item turn-ins that may be up with Grand Companies or whatever. If there's a place I can turn in items for something, I want to see what is currently being asked for. Ideally, it would have real-time updates of what has already been turned in if there are visible limits in the game, but I will settle for what they are actually asking for now.

Not crazy about the idea of collectible cards you can scan for items. That just goes down a whole other road that I don't think I want to tread. If they were to do that, I'd much prefer it was vanity items only (like the Yukatas). Otherwise it becomes spending a ton of cash randomly hoping to get the cool armor you really need, or whatever. If they want to go that route, just open a cash shop, but I'd rather not see that happen. I pay a subscription fee to play the game. If I suddenly have to start dropping hundreds of dollars on items to keep me able to participate in content, I will turn around and walk away again.

I have the same feeling about finding items while taking your chocobo for a walk. It's cute, but I walk an awful lot in a day. I could see it getting to be a big deal if it gave out really useful stuff, which is what people are usually looking for when they mention stuff like that. People usually want to find cobalt ore and materia or something, not a Roost Biscuit.

In order for something like that not to become "a necessity", you would have to only find "useless" things like fireworks; or only be able to find moko seeds or something that you could trade a crazy number of to a moogle for some food. Something like that. I don't want to see an out of game app become a "necessary" part of playing the game where you are seriously hampered by not having it. Knowing how hardcore some people can get, if you could get really useful items at all easily from it, it would become that way in a hurry.

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The cards would be something with a scanning code on it. The cards could contain items such as crystals, farming/crafting items (such as Moko Grass, fruit, food, etc.). If Beastmaster were available in-game, there could be cards for unlocking Familiars for the job. Kind of like Pokemon, in a sense...

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

The cards would be something with a scanning code on it. The cards could contain items such as crystals, farming/crafting items (such as Moko Grass, fruit, food, etc.). If Beastmaster were available in-game, there could be cards for unlocking Familiars for the job. Kind of like Pokemon, in a sense...

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Moko grass or crystals, I'd be fine with, although it could begin that slippery slope of "cash shop like". Vanity armor like the yukatas, I'd be fine with. Familiars or skills for Beastmaster, not ok with. That turns it into a "necessity".

I did think of one thing I'd like to see that I'd forgotten about. If raising chocobos via app is possible, then I'd also like to see the ability to check my garden via app. :)

ETA: Before anyone from R&D who might be lurking gets any ideas, I would only be ok with scannable cards for any type of item in the context of them being included promotionally with a magazine or something similar. I would, under no circumstances, enjoy there suddenly being booster packs of cards on the shelves of stores that I can purchase and scan for in-game items of any kind.

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Originally Posted by Azraelle

Moko grass or crystals, I'd be fine with, although it could begin that slippery slope of "cash shop like". Vanity armor like the yukatas, I'd be fine with. Familiars or skills for Beastmaster, not ok with. That turns it into a "necessity".

I did think of one thing I'd like to see that I'd forgotten about. If raising chocobos via app is possible, then I'd also like to see the ability to check my garden via app. :)

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Well, some Familiars would be one-of-a-kind. A card could be included in a magazine, say like GameInformer or something. I remember when Nintendo did it with their Pokemon cards by putting one in their Nintendo Power magazine and then one in a strategy guide (the one for the guide was a HORRIBLE idea; I would go to the store and I'd find guides with the section with the card ripped out and open as someone stole it). So yeah, I'm thinking that including a card in a magazine wouldn't be a good idea...

See, then no, totally against it. This is a game with a subscription. I don't want to have to pay extra for random chances (or even certain ones) at "necessary" things to fullfill my role in the game.

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Originally Posted by Azraelle

See, then no, totally against it. This is a game with a subscription. I don't want to have to pay extra for random chances (or even certain ones) at "necessary" things to fullfill my role in the game.

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Well, I had to do the same with some other games such as Final Fantasy XI. I know it wasn't necessary to buy the add-on scenarios, but I did buy them just to see how things were. So you wouldn't buy a pack of randomized cards for $5.99?

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

Well, I had to do the same with some other games such as Final Fantasy XI. I know it wasn't necessary to buy the add-on scenarios, but I did buy them just to see how things were. So you wouldn't buy a pack of randomized cards for $5.99?

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I wouldn't either. Random chance per 6 bucks to maybe get a pet that everyone wants me to have for X dungeon, is worst case senario, and i think, a terrible idea.

If we're talking chocobo walkies and you find chocobo food for raising chocobos, sounds fine. When we're talking dropping cash on random packs of cards for classes, i'm as against it as Azraelle is. Its like hoping you get the Invigorate card so class X isn't gimped with less TP then the guy standing next to you. RNG gets a bad rap already for how often its used, but it doesnt cost me 6 bucks per chance.

Keep it simple and fun. Besides utility information keep the items bonus. Get some chocobo food via app or gathering in game. Theres a sad theme in most MMO games that if its not optimum its worthless (check the recent quest-based leveling threads. Some are not pleased that they will have to do Quest leveling. Theres more options then that, but if its optimum, no other option exsists in their mind)

Theres no reason to get the best stuff from a smartphone app. Its supposed to be something cool and related to the game you play. Not required or optimum for anything, in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Viritess

I wouldn't either. Random chance per 6 bucks to maybe get a pet that everyone wants me to have for X dungeon, is worst case senario, and i think, a terrible idea.

If we're talking chocobo walkies and you find chocobo food for raising chocobos, sounds fine. When we're talking dropping cash on random packs of cards for classes, i'm as against it as Azraelle is. Its like hoping you get the Invigorate card so class X isn't gimped with less TP then the guy standing next to you. RNG gets a bad rap already for how often its used, but it doesnt cost me 6 bucks per chance.

Keep it simple and fun. Besides utility information keep the items bonus. Get some chocobo food via app or gathering in game. Theres a sad theme in most MMO games that if its not optimum its worthless (check the recent quest-based leveling threads. Some are not pleased that they will have to do Quest leveling. Theres more options then that, but if its optimum, no other option exsists in their mind)

Theres no reason to get the best stuff from a smartphone app. Its supposed to be something cool and related to the game you play. Not required or optimum for anything, in my opinion.

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Yeah, I see what you're getting at now. :) Thanks for clarifying more.

-AH app to check, buy, sell stuff on the go.
-Linkshell/Free Company app to chat with your LS/company members or even friends in your FL. Maybe even an event planner implemented to organize events, check who's gonna be available for it and also as a reminder in case you forget.
-Retainer app for whatever purpose they'll have in the future.
-Moogle mail to check messages when you aren't connected.

I know this was mentioned on another thread in the general discussion, but it would be cool if we could have an offline Bestiary to view the monsters we have fought, observed, etc. in A Realm Reborn. We can then look at the monsters on-the-go and such, zoom in, move the camera around them and whatnot. It would make the Bestiary app like our own PokeDex. Of course, we would have to sync the Bestiary app to our game's character data and update it whenever we play the game.