FF14 Companion app Premium Service

[SenorPatty]

I'm only making this topic as I'm seeing that it's listed date is today on the launch browser (I guess they updated information/workability? Idk). The highlight is this tidbit taken from the FAQ page: https://companion-app.finalfantasyxi...ice-plans.html

Q. What does the premium service plan offer?
A. The premium plan offers a range of additional features.
Please note that the benefits will only become apparent once your in-game character is able to hire retainers, so please unlock that feature in FFXIV before considering upgrading to the premium plan.

PREMIUM

Use an extra chocobo saddlebag in-game, for a total of 140 saddlebag slots.
Manage chocobo saddlebag items.
Hire an extra retainer in-game for no additional cost.
Manage retainer items.
Exchange items between retainers.
Receive twice the kupo nuts per day and carry a maximum of ten at a time.
Premium plan features may be used by all characters on the same service account.


My reaction: And so...it begins...

[Final-Fantasy]

Pay to Win, enabled!

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Its not even p2w...

more like, pay for convenience, and its still not even that great. I'm personally not bothering with the premium version, i dont even use the kupo nuts i get with the free one.

I dont need the extra saddlebag space or retainer at the moment anyway.

[SenorPatty]

Now introducing The Ultra Companion App (5 years from now)

Premium

-Double tomestone space
-Triple inventory space
-Gain access to extra presets in Character Creation
-Enable Account-Wide features on all past purchases
-Gain one more additional loot from any dgn and raids
-Quadruple the amount of Kupo nuts you can hold! (OMG, that's so amazing)
-Access to the Viera race
-Triple your MGP gain
-"Limitations" and "Server Stress" mysteriously disappears (woooo)
-Gender restrictions on gear is now removed
-You can select pieces of an outfit from the mogstation to buy individually (We could've done that 5 years ago but SERVER STRESS!!)
-Overmeld your gear...by not eight, not nine but TEN SLOTS (sugoi)
-Glamour storage can now hold 1000 pieces of gear....PER SLOT



Man, 2023 is gonna be AWESOME

[Emstidor]

As someone who has no intention of using the premium service (and even barely uses the app, period) I’m glad Kupo nuts serve as a limiter to prevent people from sitting on the app and endlessly undercutting me every ten minutes.

[SilverObi]

Mmm the slippery slopes are delicious today

[DPZ2]

So, at least someone online here considers "extremely inconvenient storage in Chocobo Saddlebags" as pay-to-win?

hahahahahaha

That joke never gets old ...

[SenorPatty]

Mmm the slippery slopes are delicious today

I know right? Especially since we've begun our descent down those slopes sometime ago and now it's getting steeper by the year.


mmmmmhmm. mhm mhm mhm delicious!

[SilverObi]

I mean aside from the cascade of lackluster battle content I haven't seen much in the way of pay-to-win or a complete blowout in terms of the mog station. It's lazy that they put outfits and mounts and such in a shop when they could actually try and make them obtainable in-game through quests or more storylines. If a game is fully functional without micro transaction additions, then what is truly the problem? Pay for Convenience is rough (just look at SWToR) but ultimately not needed to play and progress and so isn't a true paywall. If SE were to hamstring progression and lock away necessary QoL through payments then yes we have hit the rock bottom. And I would imagine the quality of the game itself would drop enough by then to not warrant a second thought about leaving from most of the playerbase

[Beckett]

Hire an extra retainer in-game for no additional cost.

Well that's interesting. Previously they said the app would only allow you to purchase an additional retainer on the Mog Station (above the previous max limit). So in order to get a new retainer you would need to spend $5 per month on the app and another $2 on the retainer.

If this new text is accurate, and you actually do get a retainer directly with your premium app, then it's slightly more palatable. Though you're really still just spending $3 on extra saddlebag space.