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I had been on a break from the game and was unable to post here for a while, but I’ve reactivated my subscription for a month, so I wanted to write again for the first time in a while.

Has anyone here played the Chinese mobile version of FFXIV?
It seems like it’s been getting attention on the English forums too, but from what I’ve heard, it faithfully recreates the graphics and character designs from Patch 6.58 and earlier.

Several of my friends have already started playing the mobile version, and they shared screenshots and videos of Thancred with me — and honestly, “the Thancred I’ve adventured with all these years” was there.I cried. Really.

It looks like only the early parts of the story, up to A Realm Reborn, are currently playable in the mobile version, and it doesn’t include Dawntrail yet. But as someone who plays FFXIV purely because of Thancred, I found myself thinking… if I can’t see that Thancred again in the main PC/PlayStation version, maybe I’d rather just continue in the mobile version alone.
I really hope they release the mobile version globally and eventually make the full story, including the latest content, available.

Of course, I haven’t given up hope that that Thancred might return to the main game someday…
But I honestly can’t understand why it’s possible to recreate his old design in the mobile version, and not in the PC/PlayStation version — especially since the mobile version is officially overseen by Square Enix.Why is this the case?

I fully intend to try it once the English app is available and they have controller available. People on the forums are mostly iffy about it since we're playing a game that's pretty much one of the final games hanging on to old style monetization.

But everyone seems to agree that the Lightspeed team's done a better job upscaling the character graphics over the main FFXIV team. It's a bummer.