Smart Phone App

[Ilitsa]

That still doesn't make any sense on why you would say to someone "why waste time working on a smartphone app when the game needs to be fixed". You're right, the waitress does get the crap because he/she is the person you engage but would you say to the waiter "why are you wasting time serving me drinks and taking my orders when the food needs to be fixed?".

And I was simply saying a smartphone app is much less important than the existing issue, No where did I once say to NOT work on the app. I was placing my opinion to the staff that was providing information, for them to dictate to where it needs to go. All you're trying to do is pick apart my opinion, that fixing what's wrong with the game should be more precedential to side programs, that is ALL I was saying. I have yet to see anything in the dev tracker regarding what they're doing to fix this issue of people being unable to create new characters on servers. And don't try with the "Make a new char on a different server" Because that's not fair to us either. I have friends that have been trying to get into Balmung since day 2 of Phase 4, and have yet to be able to. It's rather unreasonable to ask me to go to a different server, unless they want to provide free transfers to people to go to less populated servers, though that still would be a rather temporary fix.

And to keep to your analogy;

A customer may not tell the server their wasting their time with drinks, but when they continuously bring out drinks without providing the food that was on order, said customer generally would stop them and ask why the food hasn't come yet.

[surrel]

I gathered that's what you're trying to say. You're right, a smartphone app is useless without a properly working game. But what do you expect the people working on the app to do then? For all we know, maybe they do have knowledge of servers and game developement but let's go under the assumption that that's know where their area of expertise is. Their job is to make an app (and god knows what else). Do you want SE to take the time to train them on something new so they can focus on what's more important?

I'm not picking apart anything you're saying. You're either not getting your full point across of you literally want all of SE to divert their attention to only gameplay and all I'm saying is it's most likely not possible that they can so to complain about the app doesn't really do anything.

[surrel]

Also, while they may not have "directly" addressd the character creation problem, they have mentioned they will monitor servers. Also, they still do rotate character creation on servers based on that one thread somewhere in the forum. I don't keep an eye of which servers absolutely do not open up so sorry if you're on one of those servers. Their notices do come more slowly than what most people would like but they do a good enough job of keeping people updated.

[Eldaru]

I don't think Ilitsa gets it yet. The people who develop mobile apps typically do not have the expertise or knowledge to work on the game or servers. It would be like surrel said and asking the server to cook your food. The server does not cook, so there's no point taking that server off the floor any more than there would be a point to taking that mobile developer off the app. It's highly likely that app developer is not qualified to do anything other than develop that app. Does that make sense yet? Having that app developer work on the servers would be like having a chemical engineer design a bridge rather than just finding a qualified structural engineer. They may both be engineers, and that chemical engineer may be a damn good chemical engineer, but I'm not driving on that bridge...

[Shori]

In my usual style of sticking my ore in; while the devs on servers are nto devs on the app... the budget and management are responsible for everything so the current issues do indeed have an impact. sad to say as I too want the app, but for andriod

[duceTRE]

This however is no reason not to update, most of the additional features of the latest versions will not be needed for Libra Eorzea (as far as I can tell.) The majority of people are currently on Gingerbread, with Jelly Bean in a close second and then Ice Cream Sandwich, these three platforms as of June 2013 make up 96% of the Android market. For this reason make it compatible with these three platforms and there will be no problems, and unless there is some feature I don't know of in the app there is no need for the additional features of ICS and JB.

I think the next Android OS should be called Dingleberry.

[C-croft]

I think the next Android OS should be called Dingleberry.

Buy an android phone from VZW. That alone makes them dingleberries.

[Ageofwar]

Its a shame that google have decided to call the next version of Android as KitKat

[Eislynn]

Break me a piece of that...

[Gokuhan]

Will this app be on the PS Vita? With both online FFs being on Playstation systems and the Vita being able to use PS Mobile software, it could be possible. I don't have a smart phone so it would be great if it did come to the Vita.