Why is FFXIV Mobile getting better cosmetics than PC?

[RedLolly]

If anything, I think more people will be playing this Mobile remake upon release than I think most forum users will accept.

[IttyBittyShark]

I'm just here to say that you all made that one person delete all of their comments ever in this forum, and it's so funny to me.

i'm pretty sure he got banned LOL.

[Dellita_of_Mtek]

If anything, I think more people will be playing this Mobile remake upon release than I think most forum users will accept.

If I may add some reassurance, my girlfriend has been able to play the game for the past week or two as she was curious how it compared. The first thing she told me was that everything is expensive and the second thing was that the game is more "dumbed down" content wise/quest wise than the PC/console version is. I personally think this will be what turns people off the mobile game that are expecting an experience similar to what we have now.

For example:
-They provide items to skip job questlines only
-The actual story line is out of order
-A lot of side quests were wiped out
-The market board is locked behind a paywall (essentially making crafting irrelevant as a F2P unless you want to make your own gear)
-The glam system is overly complicated because of the UI they're using
-Housing does not exist
-Base game hairstyles and other customization options were removed with no alternatives given for free


I will say we're in agreement that the one thing the PC version should have is the ability to teleport directly to mini-aethers in the main cities from anywhere in the world, but otherwise it just feels like FF14 with its soul ripped out, is how she put it. It's an MMO but it's not FF14.

[Carin-Eri]

i have no interest in it being a gacha item, i simply just want such nice things in the game. i consider gacha a plague.

Same. I played a game that, over the years, suffered as a result of prioritising gambleboxes over everything else.

It was one of the reasons I quit said game.

[Khryseis_Astra]

This is really upsetting to see the mobile version get those cute glams, hairstyles and more along with the QoL features too. SE needs to catch up and even try reaching out to mod authors to create more glams and please, make the glams HD and not have flat squared butts!

Especially since, if I’m understanding it correctly, you have to buy 6 boxes to ensure you get all 6 hairstyles (“better gacha” because you’re guaranteed no duplicates) but the total price for that appears to be only a few dollars more than a single Mogstation hairstyle? Unless someone converted the currency wrong or I misread it.

[Dellita_of_Mtek]

Especially since, if I’m understanding it correctly, you have to buy 6 boxes to ensure you get all 6 hairstyles (“better gacha” because you’re guaranteed no duplicates) but the total price for that appears to be only a few dollars more than a single Mogstation hairstyle? Unless someone converted the currency wrong or I misread it.

It will be around $50 or 358 yuan with how their monetization works to get all 6 hairstyles/the one you want if you have horrible luck. You'll have to buy two different packages to have it equal out to enough currency to buy them.

[IttyBittyShark]

another day, another day of me pining for long pretty hair that gets added to the mobile version. and no, i am not saying i want the gacha system that comes along with it.

^__^

[Halivel]

If I may add some reassurance, my girlfriend has been able to play the game for the past week or two as she was curious how it compared. The first thing she told me was that everything is expensive and the second thing was that the game is more "dumbed down" content wise/quest wise than the PC/console version is. I personally think this will be what turns people off the mobile game that are expecting an experience similar to what we have now.

For example:
-They provide items to skip job questlines only
-The actual story line is out of order
-A lot of side quests were wiped out
-The market board is locked behind a paywall (essentially making crafting irrelevant as a F2P unless you want to make your own gear)
-The glam system is overly complicated because of the UI they're using
-Housing does not exist
-Base game hairstyles and other customization options were removed with no alternatives given for free


I will say we're in agreement that the one thing the PC version should have is the ability to teleport directly to mini-aethers in the main cities from anywhere in the world, but otherwise it just feels like FF14 with its soul ripped out, is how she put it. It's an MMO but it's not FF14.

The "story line out of order" is what probably boggles me the most, because you'd think that this is the one thing they'll just leave as is.

But also, what on earth did they remove in customization department along with the haircuts? None of the other sections in character creator feel like something you'd be able to properly monetize outside of fantasia usage?