Would you like an in-game parser?

[Noutaja]

Sony removed the software developer license from their website which allowed people to develop the PS Vita forward with homebrewn/3rd party software. It was a downloadable patch/file that you put on your Vita for developer access, it is no more downloadable nor usable even if you had the patch/files. Back then you could for example stream PC games to your Vita just like from the PS4 but with better success/framerate/quality. Sony wants us to buy PS4 if we buy PS Vita so that's how simple it really is, they blocked us from doing what we did with their console. SE needs to get (buy) permission from Sony to develop an official app like a parser and also work together with Sony to make it happen. But we have all seen that companies are not capable of what individuals are, especially when given free hands.

PS Vita is a machine that can do an incredible amount of things due to its hardware, but Sony and its business model (software licensing etc) is in the way of development. Greed.
Turning the Vita into PS4's multitasking synced buddy is the only way to go and they are failing it miserably.

@Nicobo: Parsers are allowed in every possible way, except for the Feast PvP network parsing/tracking debuffs/buffs etc. That can get you removed from the season, or so they say, but you cannot be caught. Atleast not proven. Oh the glory of the "grey area".

[Seraphix2407]

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Doesn't really need to be an app for it, more like a thing they have in the actuall game.

[Noutaja]

Doesn't really need to be an app for it, more like a thing they have in the actuall game.

Either way, in-game support for a parser or an application on the PS Vita to revive a dead console. Brainstorming for god knows why. :P

[Lambdafish]

or an application on the PS Vita to revive a dead console.

I would rather not, smartphone sure, but not Vita. The Vita has nothing to do with Xiv and I don't think people will be appreciative of having to buy one in order to unlock a game feature of a game for a completely different console.

[Noutaja]

I would rather not, smartphone sure, but not Vita. The Vita has nothing to do with Xiv and I don't think people will be appreciative of having to buy one in order to unlock a game feature of a game for a completely different console.

You can play FFXIV on your Vita. That is how much it has to do with FFXIV. Also PS4 and PS Vita are paired and synchronised consoles with remote play support and what not and they have the same operating system. Buying a PS Vita is intended to encourage ppl to buy a PS4 and vise-versa.

The only possible combination of a smartphone parser and a ps4 is with sonys own phones. Sony will never support another companys devices.

[Rawrz]

The only possible combination of a smartphone parser and a ps4 is with sonys own phones. Sony will never support another companys devices.

Unrelated, but the remote play app was ported to all android phones some time ago. I use it on my tablet to monitor while I fish (vibration enabled) and Netflix.

I feel if they did do it, they should try to keep it's requirements within the ps4. If we couldn't have it directly in the userinterface, like in miniACT plug ins, I wouldn't mind an external app (outside of ffxiv) that would run in the background, similar to a full ACT, that you would have to switch to, to access.