We are actually getting a Mobile FF14 ? WHAT!?

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

[...]Either way, this is effectively entirely disconnected from actual FF14 in any development sense. If anything, it might even benefit FF14's development, if Lightspeed adds features/QoL that become extremely popular that could be translated to the main game, putting pressure on the main devs to implement them.

I pray you are correct about that.

[Jeeqbit]

I saw this on the lodestone and couldn't believe it wasn't April Fools day. I am all for the companion app to make playing the game work for busy people, but I'm not sure about playing the whole game on a mobile - why give yourself neck strain looking down doing hundreds of hours of MSQ on a mobile when you could just load it up on a PS5 or a PC and look properly at a screen?

Mobile games are usually played to pass the time quickly, for example while waiting in a waiting room, on a bus or train or on the toilet. So a quicker game like pac-man is ideal, or not a game at all. When I have been without access to a PC, I actually just watch FFXIV on youtube or twitch via a mobile device, which would probably be an easier way to consume the MSQ on such a device.

There was a time I was very sick though and I streamed the game to my iPad (yes this is has been possible for a long time). It was the only way I could play because a lot of my muscles were injured and needed to be rested flat to heal. I could have probably got away with doing a dungeon (but would have got strange looks due to my movements), but it was more ideal for just doing quests, so I just did those and that was comfortable. Still, there's a difference between this and saying you should fight titan with 7 other players on a mobile/tablet.

And now most people wouldn't need to stream it like I did because of Steamdecks. People can do savage with those. I think those are useful when stuck at, say, a hotel but wanting to login for raiding on time.

But it still remains that aside from being stuck traveling, in a hotel or seriously injured like I was, why wouldn't you just do hundreds of hours of MSQ on a PC or console?

The graphics look a little better than the actual ARR does. It also says you can choose to meet players, mentors, etc. Does this mean they are actually going to play amongst everyone else on other platforms?

[Xeronia]

Is this an out of season April Fool's Joke?

Sorry had to say it, moving on. Seriously? I would love to know who thought this was a great idea and how integrated or segregated from the actual game it will be.

[Rehayem]

Just because Lightspeed is developing the game, doesn't mean SE isn't feeding them our sub money to support their development. Yes, this is definitely where our sub money goes.

What a waste of resources.

[BabyYoda]

Do you think Yoshi P will fix job identity in mobile game before 8.0?

[Zumi]

What will we have to pull for in this game, characters or weapons or both?

[KageTokage]

They already stated back during the initial tease this would be its own thing separate from the main game...though I'd be surprised if they didn't have some level of connectivity to act as a carrot on a stick to the people playing XIV on PC.

Either way a stripped-down version of XIV that will likely be subject to usual gacha/mobile gimmicks fundamentally doesn't sound appealing to me.

[lolnotacat]

This will probably be a hit in Japan, especially if they use Gatcha mechanics somehow (for Trusts?)

I don't think it will do as well in the US unless you can pull SSS rank Y'Shtola in a bikini.

[Rehayem]

Either way a stripped-down version of XIV that will likely be subject to usual gacha/mobile gimmicks fundamentally doesn't sound appealing to me.

Lightspeed Studios is owned by Tencent. It's definitely going to have gacha in there.

[VeyaAkemi]

This will probably be a hit in Japan, especially if they use Gatcha mechanics somehow (for Trusts?)

I don't think it will do as well in the US unless you can pull SSS rank Y'Shtola in a bikini.

Just level Trush Y'sh to 100 and you get that, well, I don't know about the "SSS rank" part, but you deffo get the bikini.