Final Fantasy 14 App

[Alleo]

It just lets you buy/sell the same way you can in-game, just a limited amount of times and while away from the computer/game client.



Is it really sub based if you get 90% of what the app offers for free?

90%?

You can organize your inventory and armory for free, chat, and get 1 kupo nut per day which you can use to purchase one thing from the MB.

Premium: Chat, inventory and armory organisation, organisation of your retainer and saddlebags, double the saddlebag, get one more retainer slot, 2 kupo nuts per day and more nuts that you can keep. And since you can only manage your retainers with premium this kinda hints that you can only use the retainer to retainer sending with premium too. Thats way more behind Premium than free.

Edit: They could have simply given us more inventory for the free version (not everyone will use the app) as an extra kind of inventory and let us buy maybe 2-3 things from MB and then have the premium version just having more amount that you can buy. (And the retainer slot) But putting both increases behind paywall is just sad.

If you use the App for free its just kinda another discord with an time planner and a once a day buy from the MB. I am just annoyed that they probably used our sub to create something that has most of it good stuff behind money.

you forget that they talked about a moguri coin which is probably a premium currency too

Oh I know, I wanted to have them out of it since we cant say it for sure but it would probably be naive to believe that they would not cost real money too..and since they said that more stuff might come for the coins..yeah not a good way.

[Berethos]

90%?

You can organize your inventory and armory for free, chat, and get 1 kupo nut per day which you can use to purchase something from the MB.
Premium: Chat, inventory and armory organisation, organisation of your retainer and saddlebags, double the saddlebag, get one more retainer slot, 2 kupo nuts per day and more nuts that you can keep. And since you can only manage your retainers with premium this kinda hints that you can only use the retainer to retainer sending with premium too. Thats way more behind Premium than free.

Free:
Chat
Inventory
Armoury
1 Kupo Nut
Sync friends list
Plan events
Issue Invites
Configure Notifications

Premium:
All above
Chocobo Saddlebag management
Chocobo Saddlebag extra slots
Retainer management
1 Extra Kupo Nut
Allows 1 additional Retainer

I've taken the liberty of bolding the premium parts that might have a more significant impact on your gameplay experience. Maybe. If you're a hoarder and can't manage an inventory properly.

[Alleo]

I've taken the liberty of bolding the premium parts that might have a more significant impact on your gameplay experience. Maybe. If you're a hoarder and can't manage an inventory properly.

So 8 things behind free version and 5 more things to use when you pay for it. (And lets be honest, these five points are probably those that are worth the most to the community. Since retainer management, more inventory through the saddle bags and theoretically even one more retainer which you can use to store and sell stuff are really interesting) If we say that the app can have 13 functions, you can only get to 8 without paying it. That is around 61% of the app and far away from your 90%. And this is only numbers and not just the importance of each function itself.

Also you bolded those that might have more impact. Interesting how those are all behind the paywall. Which is exactly what my post is about. You cant do 90% of the app for free and the most interesting ones are costing you money. How is that good?

Even more if you look at it in that way: You can chat and plan events outside of this app already thanks to stuff like discord. And you can also seemingly just chat with those that also own the app.

They probably used the majority of our sub to fund the content and other QoL development in 4.3.

I'd also not be surprised if part of the premium fee on the mobile app is meant to recoup costs of developing the mobile app.

You know whats also interesting? That WoW had an App too (they took it down recently as far as I know) and it was completely free.

Why even take the money do to something like that? This app was talked about for such a long time and probably needs staff to look and work on it. All of that is money. For a chat that you can already do with discord, invites that still need people online to do it. With MB that you can either do once a day or twice (or x often if they can be done with coins too..) The retainer management also makes only sense to me if you use that to sell stuff which you still can do only twice a day if you pay.

So we are left with increase of retainer and chocobo saddle. Did we really need an app for that? Couldnt they have taken all that money that is put into this and will be put into it and just increased inventory for all of us?

Honestly the april fool FF14 Go was much more interesting than this. (For me at least)

[Remedi]

Oh I know, I wanted to have them out of it since we cant say it for sure but it would probably be naive to believe that they would not cost real money too..and since they said that more stuff might come for the coins..yeah not a good way.

You are right though I'm feeling a bit on the salty side since they announced this right at the end and all it really soured my mood. I think I'll park myself in the lochs for the time beign

[Berethos]

I am just annoyed that they probably used our sub to create something that has most of it good stuff behind money.

They probably used the majority of our sub to fund the content and other QoL development in 4.3.

I'd also not be surprised if part of the premium fee on the mobile app is meant to recoup costs of developing the mobile app.

[Vstarstruck]

They probably used the majority of our sub to fund the content and other QoL development in 4.3.

I'd also not be surprised if part of the premium fee on the mobile app is meant to recoup costs of developing the mobile app.

BS!
They do not even put money into this game at the level they take in from people, then there is this more greed on top of it?

[Mahrze]

Is it really sub based if you get 90% of what the app offers for free?

If we're playing numbers, you're getting 10% of what the main game offers at 33% of the price. Or for legacy players, 10% of what the game offers at 50% of the price. Caveats not withstanding on either case.

[RubyCirha]

You're wrong.

Ok wow thanks for saying im wrong without even explaining why im wrong or how im wrong thanks for your rather rude correction

[Steviejd]

Ok wow thanks for saying im wrong without even explaining why im wrong or how im wrong thanks for your rather rude correction

You asked to be corrected if wrong so that's what I did, I was in the middle of typing why you were wrong but A. The information is everywhere at this point and B. someone gave a full answer 3 mins after I posted. I apologize if you found that rude.

[RubyCirha]

It just lets you buy/sell the same way you can in-game, just a limited amount of times and while away from the computer/game

Thank you for actually explaining and not just saying im wrong