FFXIV App <3

[tachikoma]

Good ideas:

• Security Token
• Tie to in game chat
• Tie to market wards search (and buy)
• Tie to retainers, allow listing items already on retainer
• Tie to LS calendar, allow events to be scheduled, signed up for etc.

In game chat was enabled through an outside site for FFXI already the ability to do this is already partially coded for FFXIV, you need to be logged in game for the service to work but I've seen people talk from a PC through a website to ppl in game in FFXIV. It was buggy as hell but if an outsider can get it to work even partially I'm sure SE can enable this feature.

[Taaku]

I like the idea of this, and Being able to manage your Retainer from the phone. (even though i don't have a smart phone)

[RockDustt]

FFXiVPortal for IPhone is best app I know of. Add bazaar item, server chat, world status.

[Lerend]

Since this old thread got bumped, I’d like to let you know we are planning to have an app for smart phones that is linked to game data. For example, we are thinking about having a background created by Akihiko Yoshida and making the following information viewable:

• Character information
• Friend information
• LS member information
• Free company information

…perhaps in the future, something related to housing information and such as well.

Though we are not able to share any details on this just yet, if you have any feedback please let us know.

What about smartphone to in-game LS chat capabilities? Many games including EQ2 and World of Warcraft have the ability to participate in guild chat from outside the game with external PC and smartphone apps. Obviously it's a little trickier with the ability to be in multiple LSes and needing to equip/unequip pearls, but its a very well received feature and seems like it would be easier to think of during 2.0 development than trying to hack it in later.

[Delsus]

What about smartphone to in-game LS chat capabilities? Many games including EQ2 and World of Warcraft have the ability to participate in guild chat from outside the game with external PC and smartphone apps. Obviously it's a little trickier with the ability to be in multiple LSes and needing to equip/unequip pearls, but its a very well received feature and seems like it would be easier to think of during 2.0 development than trying to hack it in later.

It wouldnt be that hard, they just add an option to log on as a character, it would then show you a list of linkshells, or work just like the chatlog and add you to the chat channels of all linkshells, and a setting to change which one is active, just like it does ingame.

[Azztaroth]

I was just talking about this to friends today, and how i hope SE will have the foresight to make a lot of the game accessable to smart phone and tablet apps. Yoshi has already voiced his hopes for apps after 2.0 but i really hope that we get something more than AH/retainer access.

A few of my ideas are: gathering apps, crafting app, mini games(ie app user card games or parly)

[Delsus]

I was just talking about this to friends today, and how i hope SE will have the foresight to make a lot of the game accessable to smart phone and tablet apps. Yoshi has already voiced his hopes for apps after 2.0 but i really hope that we get something more than AH/retainer access.

A few of my ideas are: gathering apps, crafting app, mini games(ie app user card games or parly)

Gathering will not work, because you need to go to nodes to gather. To do this they will effectively need to port the whole game to a smartphone, which will be verging on impossible, or they could ofcourse break gathering so you can do it anywhere, so no one gathers ingame they just do it on thier phone because most of gathering is running to nodes.

[Silversnow]

Gathering will not work, because you need to go to nodes to gather. To do this they will effectively need to port the whole game to a smartphone, which will be verging on impossible, or they could ofcourse break gathering so you can do it anywhere, so no one gathers ingame they just do it on thier phone because most of gathering is running to nodes.

It would require that they have a very low graphic client that mimics what you do in game where you run your 'character' around a zone built for mobiles by yourself unless you are using a wifi connection. I'd be very curious the amount of data having all the people moving around would hit in a month of heavy usage.

[Sweetheart]

Btw these are the words, from Yoshida himself:

RPGSite: Have you considered bringing FINAL FANTASY XIV to the PlayStation Vita?

Yoshida: Yes, currently this is all post-2.0, but because we’re doing a reconstruction of our server system, in those plans, we’re going to make sure that the servers can be accessed by outside devices such as smart phones. Not just the Vita, but also smart phones, so that kind of access will be allowed. What that will open the door to is things like applications that people can used to check their inventory, or check the market and purchase things from the auctions. Those are the things we are laying for in our server foundation, so we can be ready to implement those after 2.0.

For example, beyond that, maybe an application that lets you raise your chocobo, and then transfer it back into the game.

From interview: http://pc.rpgsite.net/interviews/327...-naoki-yoshida

[Delsus]

It would require that they have a very low graphic client that mimics what you do in game where you run your 'character' around a zone built for mobiles by yourself unless you are using a wifi connection. I'd be very curious the amount of data having all the people moving around would hit in a month of heavy usage.

It wouldnt be that simple, a phone would have huge problems, you would only beable to see about 6 character models most even low at extremely low resolution, even the size of the zones could cause huge problems, it would require atleast 1 year just to make it possible to gather, and it would be completly impossible on a low end smart phone (my android phone lags on alot of angry birds levels) high end ones like the galaxy s2 and iPhone 4s may beable to run a low resolution client, but it will take along time to make and really wouldnt be worth it.