Chat for offline player through Loadstone or Eorzea Libra.

[nakomaru]

Yoshi leaked that another smartphone app like this is coming in Heavensward. It will allow you to chat with your fc/friends.

He says this around 36:00 in the 2015-02-20 episode of From Eorzea With Love podcast.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm25619426

Here's my rough translation

Nanjo: It's Nanjo Yoshino and thanks for joining me for the ending of From Eorzea With Love. Well, during one of our Love Bulletin segments <tn: a segment on the show where the host reads listener mail with some FF14 player's story of love/confessions etc>, it was mentioned that there's something about FF14 that's kind of behind the times. After logging out of the game, there's no way to keep in touch with your friends, keep a conversation going... it's like even after you become friends there's some difficulty to becoming connected in the real world. Anyway, this frustration was the how the segment started.

Yoshida: I think this thing where people are unable to say something face-to-face but are able to in-game is amazing. But there's also stuff that you want to be able to say out of game too, if you're able to say it at all. Like, "what time are you gonna log in today?"

Nanjo: Yes! Like being able to arrange a meeting! It'd be great for members of a static.

Yoshida: And at this time... we're making another smartphone application for FF14. And it's able to do chat.

Nanjo: Really?!

Yoshida: Like with free company members and so forth. Through this app you'll be able to share messages with people.

Nanjo: I see. Like a linkshell you can use in real life.

Yoshida: Yeah. You could ask "what time can you log in tonight?" or "what day should we do coil this week?", whatever.

Nanjo: Whoaa! <whispering> When is it coming?

Yoshida: <whispering> Sometime after Heavensward's release.

Nanjo: <tn: I don't understand what she said. I think it's like "There's a lot going on in Heavensward.">

Yoshida: Well well, you'd want to be able to stay in contact inside and outside of the game. You know, if I say anymore the PR department is gonna yell "edit that out!"

Nanjo: Oh, they'll be mad.

Yoshida: Yeah.

Nanjo: Alright then let's leave it there.

[Lexia]

Actually XI has this system like this 10 years ago where you could send message to your friends in game from outside the game. So the OP ideal not that far fetched.

[Kirana]

Actually XI has this system like this 10 years ago where you could send message to your friends in game from outside the game. So the OP ideal not that far fetched.

I didn't think this was ever an official feature...Are you speaking of guildwork?

[Lexia]

I didn't think this was ever an official feature...Are you speaking of guildwork?

No it was an official feature. It was not real time like a IM but you could send them a message and they could reply to you kind of like a text message.

[Gyson]

Anarchy Online had this feature all the way back in 2001. I wouldn't mind seeing it here. You just logged into your character through Funcom's website and you could chat away with friends in-game.

[Zenaku]

It's called Skype, or Guildwork, or whatever other thousands of online messaging programs you can use for free.

It's called SE make the app they told us they going to make for us to talk to our ingame friends/FC/LS. Also where did that app go that allow us to put our chocobo on the phone and do stuff with it like level them up then put it back in our game? Also where did the add-on support go.

Just because there a app out there for free that we can use does not mean everyone going to. Where as if there a SE made one more people are happy to download and use.

Stop being mean about other people request.

[Nikita]

It's called Skype, or Guildwork, or whatever other thousands of online messaging programs you can use for free.

Skype, Guildwork, or whatever other thousands of online messaging programs you can use. Yeah, that's the problem right there. So many messaging programs and you expect every one of your friends you meet online to use the same one? Not gonna happen. Might as well just download all of those thousands of apps as you say! As mentioned in the above interview, FFXIV is a little behind the times in terms of features. I look forward to checking this one off the list.