Why is FFXIV Mobile getting better cosmetics than PC?

[Striker44]

Simple - the developers for the mobile game don't have to...well...make the game. It's already made. The story is already thought up. The characters are already created. They don't have to create any new characters. They don't have to create any new plot. They just use what the "main" game has already done. Hence, they can spend all the time the main dev team has to spend actually *making the game* and instead use it to create *other* cosmetic and QOL things that the main game doesn't have.

[Mercury_Grey]

i'm gonna guess if enough top tier youtubers call for it. SE might add it to pc but remove the dyeable part until 8.x when you can dye other mounts (chocobo wasn't mentioned because you can dye it so no hate for chocobo users).

[BunnyBrat]

Oh don't worry, it gets better when you find out there are variants too


Also that lalafel is riding a new mount that's -dyeable-


I doubt it was the intention, but the mobile game really is just completely embarrassing SE and the main game over here. Don't forget they got garlean armors immediately, and we're 10 years deep with nary a word about it

This legit looks like something out of a dress up game. I'd stick around even if every expansion craps out bad story after bad story. I'd stay for the glam potential. My only criticism of that hoveboard(something i wanted in game and i don't like what we did get) is that mobile only has arr at the moment and the board doesn't match what was already established in game. It seems to fit in with solution 9 more than anywhere else.

[yesnt]

Can't SE just import their work into desktop version? That would be amazing lol.

[Mercury_Grey]

Can't SE just import their work into desktop version? That would be amazing lol.

It might also have to deal with getting the assets and having to do touch ups, and ways to impliment that system to ffxiv PC. Just my speculations

[BlisteringFrost]

It might also have to deal with getting the assets and having to do touch ups, and ways to impliment that system to ffxiv PC. Just my speculations

Mod devs for all kinds of games port stuff over all the time. It's one of the easiest things to do, proven by it being the most common type of mod. At most they'd just have to touch up the graphics, which tbf, would take some time.

[DynnDiablos]

Folks, this is a prize in a box you bid on gacha style. You want all the variants, it is over $50 real money.

[Mercury_Grey]

If they do bring it to pc lets say for the 7.5 as a side quest or on the mog station and its $30 for base. I'd buy it because it be worth the wait for it. Though maybe if enough people ask for it they might bring it to PC

[IttyBittyShark]

i have no interest in it being a gacha item, i simply just want such nice things in the game. i consider gacha a plague.

[DPZ2]

As has probably been noted before, Lightspeed Studios is a subsidiary of Tencent - a Chinese entertainment conglomerate. It's not Square Enix, nor do I anticipate the graphics or game engines are similar.

Not sure why Tencent would allow Square Enix to utilize art created for a mobile game, but don't expect a crossover any time soon, if ever.

In any case, Chinese mobile (and non-mobile) MMORPGs can be very pretty, regardless of gameplay.