We are actually getting a Mobile FF14 ? WHAT!?

[Ephremjlm]

Welp GG's mates. Rehashed content, on a now developing mobile MMO. People said it for years that it was coming, and tbh FFXIV has many mobile qualities as is like people afk'ing in city hubs just queuing for content, and rpg combat elements being stripped.

Time will tell but i'm really curious as to what happens when the cheaper rehashed mobile game starts making leaps and bounds more money than their more expensive game with a harder to appease player base. Idk about you guys, but based on SE's past it doesn't give me confidence, I mean look what happened to the Kingdom Hearts series once the mobile games came out.

I guess my last thought is that this could possibly be a test for the next MMO which I've personally speculated could be a cross platform game optimized for mobile. FFXIV has not shied away from wanting to attract the broadest audience possible. Continuing the course this was the obvious next step.

On the plus side if mobile is your thing, I wouldn't be surprised if the game had controller support at launch.

[Bibine_Bine]

Is this where our sub money has gone? To remake the game on mobile starting from ARR again?

Maybe they've realised they've ran out of road with how garbage Dawntrail is and they just want to try and milk the original decade all over again. I'm joking but... Also... Am I?

Playerbase: "can we have content pls"

SE: "You guys HAVE phones, right??"

Games not doing well > Make mobile game > Cash off all the whales and micro transactions.

Can't say I'm surprised glad my sub is ending here soon.

This is being developed by a third party. Square Enix is simply licensing out their IP and sharing game assets to another developer. No money or dev time is being taken from SE. In fact, this is just making them money.

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.

Abysmally dumb take. That's literally not how any of this works.

[Jeeqbit]

I can't wait for it to have a house for every single player.

Because once it does, SE won't hear the end of it how their MOBILE version has a feature they've not achieved for 11 years.

[Azurarok]

On the plus side if mobile is your thing, I wouldn't be surprised if the game had controller support at launch.

Guess we'll find out if said controller support will be limited to iOS or not

[Rehayem]

Abysmally dumb take. That's literally not how any of this works.

If it's some sort of partnership or joint venture, then it would work like this. Because Lightspeed is owned by Tencent, the agreement is between SE and Tencent. Even if it's all wrong and not as we think, it's still a waste of resources.

[BabyYoda]

Imagine mobile game is having much more depth combat that PC port lol.. I couldn't be surprised

[Zakuyia]

Ill play just to see how s**t it is honestly. I got a feeling they gonna do what BDO did and just make it its own experience and also outfits we use in game might end up in they version of mogstation lol

[Rueby]

What a thing to wake up to...
I'm interested in the sort of predatory monetization that'd go into this considering 1-70 is actually free on PC, how will they monetize that content? Subscription? For Mobile? Lootboxes/gacha?

It'd be hilarious if it turned out to be one of those idle battle games, pay to refill your energy and what not.

[Vyrerus]

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[ovIm]

FFXIV MOBILE is officially licensed by SQUARE ENIX and developed by LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS under the supervision of FFXIV Producer and Director Naoki Yoshida and development team members.

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Mate, you are already spread too thin. How about you supervise CS3 a bit more instead?
At least now we know why CS3 can do the opposite of what Yoshi-P said in some interviews lol.