Why is FFXIV Mobile getting better cosmetics than PC?

[Pimsan20]

So the text says there’s 12 different hairstyles total… the model on the right looks like it’s using the hairstyle in second (dark pink) box down in the left. But it’s flipped!

DO THEY HAVE A TOGGLE TO FLIP THE HAIRSTYLES?! *cries*

They could add air accessories in the MMO game so that it can use on other hairstyle.

[Ephremjlm]

Damn the hoverboard looks a BILLION times better than ours, AND it does tricks and stuff. On top of that the hair options, though not my thing are really cool to see.

Meoni Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEUBGHBalpA

Like man idk, I feel like Yoshi P. really just needs to do some serious addressing in the next live letter. I feel like they NEED something drastic at this point, because the negatives really are adding up to a level I didn't think they would get to. Like the second this mobile game comes out in the US im hopping on it for sure. Don't plan on renewing my main sub for quite a while though.

[Rithy255]

This is the sort of hairstyle i always wanted in ff14 too, I really hope they add stuff from mobile into the base game. Like none of the recent hairstyles have been appealing to me at all then they make two that looks really cool but its for mobile

It really feels like if mobile is successful this will happen even more and PC & Console players will be left behind. Which is upsetting because i rather not play on a mobile phone just to get more custom options.

[IttyBittyShark]

Damn the hoverboard looks a BILLION times better than ours, AND it does tricks and stuff. On top of that the hair options, though not my thing are really cool to see.

Meoni Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEUBGHBalpA

Like man idk, I feel like Yoshi P. really just needs to do some serious addressing in the next live letter. I feel like they NEED something drastic at this point, because the negatives really are adding up to a level I didn't think they would get to. Like the second this mobile game comes out in the US im hopping on it for sure. Don't plan on renewing my main sub for quite a while though.

lol i dont usually watch meoni but this is a pretty good video! man that hoverboard really puts our's to shame. it isn't the kind of look i ever really go for, but i think it is indisputable that this one greatly outranks our's if it is the look you enjoy.

[PaulusHamsteru]

Different budgets. Also FFXIV Mobile isn't using PS3-era code, which lets them make other changes too.

Maybe it's time to rewrite the code? It's been 15 years.

[Kranel_San]

Maybe they will abandon the current desktop client and use the mobile client for the desktop in the future.



Cheers

So we get the better game?

[Vespar]

Honestly, I'm an avid player who has been with this game since 1.X beta, and the more I see stuff like this, the more frustrated I am becoming with Square Enix and their choices of late.
I want to keep loving your game, but your business practices are seriously angering me and pushing me away from your game instead. The community is already inflamed over various other things, why would you choose to inflame them more with choices like this?

It doesnt matter if the Chinese mobile version is being developed by another company along side the main game, it still reflects on the franchise and title as a whole. Any decisions SE makes in one WILL have implications for the other, they must be mindful of that ALWAYS.
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Which is upsetting because i rather not play on a mobile phone just to get more custom options.

That's even assuming the Mobile title reaches English speaking communities. For now we are forced to look thru the shop window at all the beautiful toys we can't have (TBD).

[Alicie]

i just had seen this and i am not happy whatsoever.

i understand that these are two "separate" games, with separate developers and two different means of making their money, but what?



this is the exact kind of hair that players in the standard game have been BEGGING for. instead we always get (subjectively) the same sorts of ugly short bobs and things. people have been wanting more long hair for years!

i understand that the mobile game is making all of their money off of cash shop or whatever their equal is, but we should be getting cosmetics like this as well in our subscription based game.

i am tired of this trend. i am a league of legends player as well, and if you know about the game wild rift, they have the same issue. wild rift is always getting much higher quality cosmetics than PC. please don't let this be something that happens to FFXIV as well.

You're aware that these items are available solely via gambling, which honestly should be banned in all parts of the world?

[Dellita_of_Mtek]

You're aware that these items are available solely via gambling, which honestly should be banned in all parts of the world?

Can confirm this. The hairstyle is available in a blind box style and you have to spend around $50 to get all of the variants if you happen to have bad luck with getting the one you actually want.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...the_new_mobile

[SalamanderIX]

In the last month we got Viera hats, and hats with fringes.
They've been adding more Hairstyles in Dawntrail than they did in any other expansion, double dyes, speech bubbles. We also got an entire... visual update.

But I guess, what people really wanted... was some mobile gatcha hair.