FFXIV App <3

[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.