We are actually getting a Mobile FF14 ? WHAT!?

[Daralii]

Ah, so that was one of their 'mysterious projects.'
Now we get why they’re putting less and less effort into the game and throwing our money away on mobile trash.
I don’t want to be a downer, but I really don’t think this project’s gonna make it

No, this was something that we knew about specifically in addition to the mystery projects.

[CNitsah]

Not be the harbinger of bad news but it seems that SE is seeing the constant decline of FF14 as a sign that the main game is on the way out. So they want to ensure everything is milked to the fullest potential until it finally completely dies out.

No prosperous game ever did a Mobile version unless it was dying and they wanted to get as many funds as possible for their next title.

From the past we know SE WANTS a mmo. FFXI was for a long time the money cow of SE. Today it's XIV. But do you really think SE can make a new mmo work when they killed the previous one with their bad decisions. Sure some will go for curiosity, but the mmo era is mostly done. Launching a new mmo is a risky, and mmo players are mostly alienated by players of the previous one. FFXIV has to have a good death, for the next SE mmo to not start with a bullet in the foot.

[Connor]

Cant wait for them to pull some bullshit ‘since we’re doing a mobile game we have to make patches 12 months apart instead of 6 sorry bros wwww’ excuse. The game isn’t even being developed by SE lol yet they’ll use it just another excuse for the slop we’re served every patch

[Kranel_San]

A realm Mobilied?

A realm re-reborn?

[Elissar]

Bad sign in 10char

[Xeronia]

Actually now that I had time to mull it over i have to ask who is this product even for? I understand wanting to reach the mobile market and all but ARR is offered for free already in the free trial so a mobile version that possibly has more micro-transactions just seems a rather wasted development.

[seolhyun]

mfw the classes are more fun on ipad

[BeoCat]

Actually now that I had time to mull it over i have to ask who is this product even for? I understand wanting to reach the mobile market and all but ARR is offered for free already in the free trial so a mobile version that possibly has more micro-transactions just seems a rather wasted development.

Asian mobile gaming market is huge and Tencent is putting some money into this. Add some gacha mechanics and this will probably be a big hit over in China/Korea/Japan. The rest of the world, probably not.

[AlucaDragonheart]

So instead of giving us classic servers, they are going to release classic as a F2P/P2W gacha where you're going to be nickel and dimed instead of just... releasing classic servers... gg Squeenix lol

[Rehayem]

Maybe that's why they're numbing down the combat system, to make it work on mobile on the eventual day they'll do cross-platform.