Mobile Phone Companion App

[AngelCheese77]

Does anyone have a link on what is in this app that isn't screenshots of info in Japanese? I have yet to find anything (unless I'm looking in the wrong places). So far it's second hand info to me.

[Sigma-Astra]

As has been said before, this is a pretty bad deal for the extra inventory space. Two extra retainers is cheaper than the 70 extra chocobo bag slots. MB access is in game. About the only thing the premium app does is allow you to manage retainer inventory better, something that should have absolutely been in game.

I know, I was the one who suggested it earlier in the thread that it was an extremely poor deal and bad design flaw. I just think it's a bit of a stretch for people to start flailing about the mobile app locking inventory space behind a $5 fee, when in hindsight retainers have been doing that with a $2 fee for the longest of times now, way longer than before the app was even conceived. However, by that perspective alone, the app should be dead in the water upon arrival because anyone can clearly see that paying $2 as opposed to $5, you're obviously getting more bang for your buck. You are right in that retainer inventory management should have been in-game from the get-go, honestly, so should extra inventory space in that regard entirely. But, it is what it is right now and we're at the point where it's not going to change because it's already too late in that sense. The app does everything that I can already do from the comforts of my home and honestly speaking, isn't worth the free version in that regard.

Really, the mobile app was designed for people that can't be separated from the game or don't want to be for very long. It's a case of the Patient VS the Impatient. It'll be used by people who are either bored and/or need to be connected to XIV during the time that they can't log in as opposed towards the people who are like "Meh. It can wait until I get home later". That's what the whole app speaks to me about.

You have the portion of the people who can't wait until they can log in from their PC or PS4 to check their retainers, sell/buy items, chat with friends, etc., and then you have the other side of the fence that don't need to feel connected to the game 24/7. It's all personal preference and I only see like...a small, maybe even half of the playerbase consecutively using it while everyone else ignores it for the most part. It all depends on what "other stuff" they start adding to it possibly and if it concerns buying/selling houses? Welllll....I don't know if we really want to go down that road...

[Bahati]

As long as some of the playerbase is happy about this announcement and willing to pay for it's features, it's not a bad decision or poor design, is it? There's no need to be so self centered, leave people to their kuponuts and app in peace. This entire game does not revolve around you, OP.

[Vrankyl]

Does anyone have a link on what is in this app that isn't screenshots of info in Japanese? I have yet to find anything (unless I'm looking in the wrong places). So far it's second hand info to me.

Those slides are the only ones however the english written on them are official translations provided by SE. They can be viewed in the Live letter digest found here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/364590

[Kuutamo]

I don’t mind the app at all. I won’t be paying as don’t need any of the extras but from talking with Jp friends, these kind of things are the norm there. So the JP community don’t mind and are used to paying for this kind of app etc. I showed my friends our threads here and they were shocked at western attitude XD so I bet SE are also