[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.

[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 Probably using outdated tools and slow internal processes that actively hamper them, all because "it's how we've always done things."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.

[Jeeqbit]

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 Probably using outdated tools and slow internal processes that actively hamper them, all because "it's how we've always done things."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.

Take any decade... if I was coding, even in an unfamiliar codebase, it wouldn't take me 11 years to solve the housing issues.

But I do think it's hampered by, ironically, too many team members, contrary to what people on these forums think. You have a separate team for UI, for coding, for design, for concept art, etc. So there is a handshake process where each team does their thing then passes it onto the other for the next step, and feels hampered because they can't just do the entire thing on their own like an indie dev, resulting in literally people who do it alone being faster (like modders).

The UI team for example are probably like "we can only do what our UI tools let us do!"

The coding team are probably like "well we can code it but the UI team might not use it the way we intended it".

But if someone had the ability to just do everything - UI, graphics and coding together - they'd likely just solve all the issues in one swoop, and that's the one strength an indie dev has over all these AAA companies.

We know that SE has fallen into a trap like your example before. They used to hire literal real life models of swords to be made to be imported into the game, while other companies just opened a modeling program and made it based on concept art. Learning they were that outdated compared to other companies in 1.0, it makes me believe they will continue to be outdated in other ways like you said.

[ZXN]

The animations they showed looked fine. Nothing crazy or incredible, just fine, and they'll probably get better depending on how much more effort they plan to put into it / whenever the release date is.

[Catwho]

We know that SE has fallen into a trap like your example before. They used to hire literal real life models of swords to be made to be imported into the game, while other companies just opened a modeling program and made it based on concept art. Learning they were that outdated compared to other companies in 1.0, it makes me believe they will continue to be outdated in other ways like you said.

Square Enix definitely has someone on the modeling team who takes the time to not only think about how each garment they are rendering is constructed, but where the seams and stiches would realistically go. Even in crappy lower resolution stuff like FFXI they did this. As a cosplayer it's something I always appreciated.

[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