[FF14 Mobile]Class Showcase

[Wingale]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rMOSHAiFRE

This is, like, Job Action of FF14 but in Mobile
The UI looks little mess up but some animations are good or better than the PC version

//I heard the rumor that this mobile version doesn't have gacha system.

[Kranel_San]

For a mobile game, the animations and visuals are so clean and, unfortunately, better than the live game on PC

[weebtext]

There's something seriously cursed about level 50s having higher level skills

[Bonoki]

There's something seriously cursed about level 50s having higher level skills

I think irony is in the fact that they acknowledge low levels feels bad to play, so they gave them these skills. Cause scaled down to level 50 would feel bad to raid without them.

[Jeeqbit]

Just can't wait for this to release and it not have numerous "little" issues that the PC version has, such as with UI and network responsiveness. I have a feeling they'll have addressed other small details that are ignored in the PC version, or where they make excuses about hardware (such as with housing). The mobile devs went to pains to point out they played and raided in this game a lot so these issues probably won't be lost on them.

I think that almost any other development team wouldn't feel bound by all these excuses for why things cannot be done. They said themselves they were surprised by how fast the mobile devs can develop this.

[BabyYoda]

From what I have seen mobile version jobs have more depth and identity than PC

It is really weird that they do it for a new game instead of their main milk machine, I think they don't play their game anymore

[Connor]

I guess because it’s technically a different combat design team to the main game that it seems more inspired. Maybe our guys have just given up?

[Ath192]

I enjoy that combat distance, its much more immersive than being so zoomed out your an ant in a pile. We'll see if this is how you actually play the game or its just to showcase the abilities.

[Absurdity]

I think that almost any other development team wouldn't feel bound by all these excuses for why things cannot be done. They said themselves they were surprised by how fast the mobile devs can develop this.

This feels like it confirms something I both feared and somewhat expected, that XIV's development is still stuck in 2014. Probably using outdated tools and slow internal processes that actively hamper them, all because "it's how we've always done things."

Iirc similar info came out of Bethesda somewhat recently, where their way of making games hasn't evolved and everything is taking significantly longer than it should.

[Loggos]

From what I have seen mobile version jobs have more depth and identity than PC

It kind of reminds me of PvP where classes have fewer skills but those skills were well-chosen to craft a job's identity. More like avoiding redundancy than dumbing things down. Fewer buttons can also mean fewer opportunities for overlap. If every healer has 20-30 buttons for example then there is more room to make some actions similar/create equivalences. But if you only have 8-10 buttons per jobs too many equivalent actions will be much more noticeable and you might have a stronger incentive to make the few buttons you have meaningful and unique.

This feels like it confirms something I both feared and somewhat expected, that XIV's development is still stuck in 2014. Probably using outdated tools and slow internal processes that actively hamper them, all because "it's how we've always done things."

Iirc similar info came out of Bethesda somewhat recently, where their way of making games hasn't evolved and everything is taking significantly longer than it should.

I can only hope that this is a wake-up call that creates some pressure (and/or opportunity) for them to take the issues of their outdated underlying code seriously and start a project to overhaul it from the ground.

I don't know if this is possible but perhaps there's not just a PC --> mobile one-way ticket and instead you can also use the mobile game code as a foundation/starting point for a modernised PC and PS5 version? (Perhaps that's total nonsense though, I'm not a programmer. I just thought of Genshin/Infinity Nikki/Wuthering Waves/etc. who develop the same game for several platforms simultaneously. So I wonder do they really create every version from scratch or can you reduce the workload by using some code/programming across platforms?)