The conpainon app

[Vriel]

The main reason people wanted that app is to have a place to chat with people of your social contacts ingame without being logged in. That was delivered.
Everything else are things no one asked for and barely anyone will need, and even less that would pay for the added features.

[Risu0042]

this app would be a nice feature if it didn't nickle and dime everyone that used it. $0.20 for each MB update or auction posted. they even made it so you can't horde kupo nuts for free use (only have 2 at a time). i can do hundreds of those transactions a week and this is just ridiculous.

[TheGrimace]

They sure are hitting a bunch of home runs lately, aren't they.

[Maero]

I guess i will try to download on my iPhone tonight but the Libra Eorzia App has served me well for years.

[Corue]

So the one thing that seemed useful was being able to chat in-game but that only works with people who also have the app installed.
I understand that small indie developer Square Enix's servers are so fragile that an extra byte of information could set the whole building aflame, but SE is just trying to charge me for something apps like Discord do for free.
Why would I want to pay my entire sub again just to do something I could do by just... I don't know, logging in?

What a shameless cashgrab. I hope it flops hard.

[Legewiel]

The app is bad, like 6 yrs ago you were already able to chat with your friends inside the game on WOW using their app, this app took that much time and you're not even able to do that, you can only talk with ppl using the app, why anyone would do that with so many good alternatives around and that doesn't take 15 seconds to send a message?
The event interface would be a nice feature if it worked inside the game as well, but as it's exclusive to the app so it becomes quite useless cause you'll hardly be able to convince all your fc mates to use it just to check for events, hell even facebook would be better for that.
And you can't even control the ventures of your retainer with the app, something that would be really nice so you don't need to get in game just for that.

Why can't SE check what others are doing to get good ideas? the glamour book in wow is so cool, you can check the itens you have and the itens you don't and then you can start collecting it to fill all your book having a new cool thing to do in game and here we get a glamour dresser with a really limited space.

[alimdia]

Yeah anyone who thinks the chat in this app is even remotely good hasn't used discord yet, I wouldn't even call this chat passable, it's plain terrible and that's the only non-useless feature of the free app.

[LyraKuroneko]

I don't really see the point in this application as we can't chat with the people in game. Not even our FC. Like already said, there's discord for what we have here.

[Crostar]

Tbh the only reason I'm getting the app is for the extra favored destination.

Apart from that, it's just as many others say. The apps use is limited, some features almost negligible.

I was kinda hoping this would replace the lodestone, but that doesn't seem to be the case just yet.

[Brynne]

All I expected to be able to do was check my inventory and the market board prices remotely, and I can definitely do both of those things. I can also view my retainers' inventories in the sell menu, which is a nice bonus I wasn't expecting. The chat functions pretty much like chat in any mobile app (so I guess an alternative for those who don't like discord for whatever reason), and I feel like the events planning will be handy for coordinating with small groups of friends for things like HoH runs and map parties. I wasn't expecting either chat or events to connect to the game itself, so it doesn't bother me that they don't. Maybe they'll work that in some time in the future if the app is popular enough.

I'm pretty pleased with the app, overall. I probably won't upgrade to premium, but I like what they offer for free. And I think it was a wise move to stabilize the app first before opening up a premium subscription option.