We are actually getting a Mobile FF14 ? WHAT!?

[Bibine_Bine]

Is this where our sub money has gone? To remake the game on mobile starting from ARR again?

Maybe they've realised they've ran out of road with how garbage Dawntrail is and they just want to try and milk the original decade all over again. I'm joking but... Also... Am I?

Playerbase: "can we have content pls"

SE: "You guys HAVE phones, right??"

Games not doing well > Make mobile game > Cash off all the whales and micro transactions.

Can't say I'm surprised glad my sub is ending here soon.

This is being developed by a third party. Square Enix is simply licensing out their IP and sharing game assets to another developer. No money or dev time is being taken from SE. In fact, this is just making them money.

Just because Lightspeed is developing the game, doesn't mean SE isn't feeding them our sub money to support their development. Yes, this is definitely where our sub money goes.

What a waste of resources.

Abysmally dumb take. That's literally not how any of this works.

[Rehayem]

Abysmally dumb take. That's literally not how any of this works.

If it's some sort of partnership or joint venture, then it would work like this. Because Lightspeed is owned by Tencent, the agreement is between SE and Tencent. Even if it's all wrong and not as we think, it's still a waste of resources.

[KillaKilala]

This is being developed by a third party. Square Enix is simply licensing out their IP and sharing game assets to another developer. No money or dev time is being taken from SE. In fact, this is just making them money.




Abysmally dumb take. That's literally not how any of this works.

Are you trying to say that this Chinese company will develop the game for SE for free? I would laugh if this whole situation wasn’t so depressing. Like I’m still having fun and I love the game and this expansion, but looking at the direction they’re taking, by the next expansion I’m not sure I will. We are getting more rewards now, more things to grind, that’s amazing! But we also need the type of content that makes you interact with other players, the content that is actually hard and threatening, not just scripted fights with an instant wipe mechanics, a better levelling experience, a better and more meaningful gearing system.

I’ll try to be patient since Yoshi-P promised us a refined multiplayer gameplay and a more fulfilling gameplay experience, whatever that means, but yeah not the news I wanted to wake up to. I wish more effort was put into main game. Some people says it’s not that SE won’t give money to ffxiv, but that it’s hard to find a good employee. But they’re not even hiring anymore! Iirc the last time we got a hiring panel during LL, they were hiring a person to do the marketing…