We are actually getting a Mobile FF14 ? WHAT!?

[Hyperia]

Why would you need to create FFXIV for mobile, when you have a subscription based MMO with additional purchasable expansion, while also maintaining a very expensive cash shop.

O right, Papa Square Enix needs more money to create shit like Forspoken.

This is for the Chinese market, making it available to the global market is more of an afterthought.

A massive majority of the Chinese gamers play on mobile phones. The only place where you will find XIV in China is in Internet Cafes and its pay by the hour.

They will only charge for glamours in the global version but I am all but certain that the Chinese version will be pay to win.

[Rehayem]

They released an official video regarding the combat system in case anyone's curious. The account posted is official btw.

[Azurarok]

It's really funny that DRG has the old Blood of the Dragon timer, Gaze, and Spineshatter Dive

[Loggos]

I'll eat my own hat if this game turns out to have more fun battle gameplay and encounter design (despite a reduced number of skills and mobile limitations), "better" graphics (true to the original and brushed-up animations), is more coherent design-wise, and modernised where it counts while still feeling like ARR. I don't want to imagine that a mobile game will feel more like the true FF14 while my account/character of 11+ years in the original game that I invested lots of time and money into ends up giving me a less authentic experience.
Please don't make it happen, SE.

[Jeeqbit]

I don't want to imagine that a mobile game will feel more like the true FF14 while my account/character of 11+ years in the original game that I invested lots of time and money into ends up giving me a less authentic experience.
Please don't make it happen, SE.

People here know I don't criticize SE easily and even I think it'll happen.

This mobile version is going to keep them on their toes to catch up.

[Loggos]

People here know I don't criticize SE easily and even I think it'll happen.

This mobile version is going to keep them on their toes to catch up.

If the mobile game turns into positive competition in the sense that it'll lead to SE stepping up the development of their main game then I think this could actually be a good thing.
I only worry that - with mobile games being so popular and profitable on the Asian gaming market in particular - a successful mobile version could (very) slowly but steadily supersede the current main game and become the new "future-proof" main game. Maybe I'm being too pessimistic here but considering the amount of money mobile gaming makes...

[Rehayem]

Could be a possibility that SE might see the mobile success as enormous in China (or Asia in general) since it's gonna be F2P and then start changing the PC/console to become F2P with cash shop to boost up their earnings.

[Loggos]

FF14 battle pass here we come.

[Connor]

Isn’t the mobile game owned and developed by a third party company?

I’m as skeptical of this mobile game cash grab as anyone but even I don’t think they’d delete the main game and expect a FTP mobile game they didn’t even make to somehow exceed the profits they were gaining lol. I mean, you can’t charge FTP players £49.99 per expansion lol

[Daralii]

Isn’t the mobile game owned and developed by a third party company?

I’m as skeptical of this mobile game cash grab as anyone but even I don’t think they’d delete the main game and expect a FTP mobile game they didn’t even make to somehow exceed the profits they were gaining lol. I mean, you can’t charge FTP players £49.99 per expansion lol

Developed by a Tencent subsidiary but Yoshida apparently has been spending a lot of time overseeing it. If it doesn't flop, I wouldn't be surprised if SE's stupid enough to further downsize XIV's dev team(fired or reassigned) and just try to coast on whatever cut they're getting.