The NEW Companion App - Why It's WORTH the Download Now!

Hi Gamers!
They've made some big changes to the companion app, and in my mind it's absolutely worth the download - and for most players, maybe even the $5 a month. It even has an unbelievable feature not available in game! Watch this video to see what it can do now!
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[@sugoitaka6963]

they should totally let us play the toy chest games on the companion app :p

[@gamer_debbie]

That's a good idea!💜 I don't see why they couldn't add that in, sometime in the future. But they've been very tight-lipped about any work they're doing (or have done) on the app. I wish there was a bit more communication regarding their plans for it.

[@SaltRockStacker]

That is pretty cool. I wish they would implement a system with Companion where you can order your retainer to tend to your garden instead of having to do it yourself in-game. Even if it costs Venture tokens to do so.

[@gamer_debbie]

Oh gawd yes! 💜I can't tell you how many times I've been away from home with no access to the game when I realised I won't be able to save my plants. It would be a lifesaver!

[@random-numbers]

Didn't know they updated the app! Thanks for the video.

[@gamer_debbie]

You're very welcome! 💜

[@TrTai]

Glad this came up, got it updated and it finally feels like an app. The inventory and retainer management is so nice now. I wish it would let me use my actual ventures to send them off but it does make it a lot easier for me to keep up with them

[@gamer_debbie]

Awesome! And totally agree! 💜 Can't wait until I can keep sending them out on some hunting ventures for in-demand crafting items for DT. The gil. Think of the gil! Looks like you can't repeat quick-ventures more than once, but hunting you can keep doing and the items can go right onto your retainer.

[@khaosterminator]

Thank you, Debbie. I sub to the app for the storage, i didnt know it was changed too

[@gamer_debbie]

You're so welcome! 💜

[@evandavis5223]

I was very excited to hear about the handling of retainer ventures via the app but I ran into a problem. Once a retainer has finished a venture, the only option it gives me to send them back out on is hunting. I've been sending them on quick ventures because there's specific gear I've been trying to get that only comes from the quick ventures. If I can't select the venture I want then there's no point in doing it through the app. At least the inventory management has been useful.

[@gamer_debbie]

I think I know the reason why this is the case... It's because quick ventures can potentially bring back items that are 'unique' and it could run into issues putting it into your or your retainer's inventories. So it has to hold it as pending so you can deal with it in game. However... Hunting/Gathering ventures bring back an item that is immediately placed onto your retainer so you can do them however often you like. Personally, I'm doing those ventures now because new leathers/rocks are selling so well because of Dawntrail... But I can understand how it wouldn't be helpful for people doing quick ventures. 💜

[@dal0startist]

I updated the app but I'm not able to change the background image. Only the theme of the menu. Your video skips over where Style Settings is located.

[@gamer_debbie]

I'm sorry! 💜 When you're on the homescreen of the app, there is a icon with 4 boxes stacked in a square in the very top left of the screen. Click that to enter the layout editor. Next, there is a phone icon with a gear on it next to three vertical dots at the top right of the screen. Click the phone. The menu it takes you to is the style settings menu - with text, menu, and wallpaper settings. I really hope this helps!

[@IceColdCash22]

I had the app, but deleted it a long time ago. Time to check it out again, thanks for the video! Happy Dawntrail!

[@gamer_debbie]

You're so very welcome! I hope you're having a most excellent Dawntrail launch weekend! 💜

[@chaous2000]

Thanks for the video, Debbie! Ill def check it out again, havent looked at it in YEARS. One small note, back the mike up an inch or two, it is way too close to your mouth as the "mouth" sounds come through very clearly (the saliva sound....idk how to explain it LOL)

[@gamer_debbie]

Thank you!! 💜 And absolutely! I appreciate the feedback. I moved my mic from an arm onto a stand and forgot I had raised the gain to compensate and had to spend way too long trying to edit out every breath! Definitely going to fix that for next time!

[@thedoomlord5853]

Why updates the game with quality of life futures when we can sell them

[@gamer_debbie]

It's hard to fault them for making money on the side when everyone is doing it. And it's hard to complain about the game QOL updates when they *just* released an expansion. But I understand your point.

[@25xxfrostxx]

When my phone was new, mud brick was the state of the art home construction material. I may check it out when I get an upgrade.

[@gamer_debbie]

My favourite phone to-date was probably my Nokia with the slide-out keyboard. It wouldn't run this app, but at least I didn't have to press the 1 key three times to get a 'c'. 😉

[@FreelancerWells]

@@gamer_debbie My first smartphone was the HTC Desire Z, which had that feature as well. :D

[@25xxfrostxx]

@@gamer_debbie I'm still on a 2013 Note 3. Back before we went remote my employer didn't care if we watched youtube at our desks so I kept it around because of the screen size.

[@gamer_debbie]

@@25xxfrostxx Niice! I liked the early Galaxy phones because I could purchase bigger batteries for them via Anker and then not have to charge them for days at a time. Those were the days!

[@Sephirothll]

The swamp just got from bad stink to slightly bad stink.

[@gamer_debbie]

That's... a good thing though, right?

[@Slamfist00]

Can you use ventures to send quick exploration missions? Wouldn't ten nuts every hour get very expensive?

[@gamer_debbie]

You *can* do it. Whether or not you *should* do it is another question. lol For people with 2-3 retainers, 10 nuts can go a long way towards keeping them venturing a long time. As for my 10 retainers, I'm usually hovering around 8-10 nuts at any given time so if I wanted to I could send them all out, but I definitely wouldn't want to sustain it by paying for mog coins! Thankfully, right now they're all leveling to 100 and are doing those 17 hours exploration missions (so finding the nuts to flip them isn't too bad).

[@-Boone]

Hells yeah, been asking this one forever. Time to get my stuff back lmao. (stopped buying for saddlebag so a whole page of my stuffs been in limbo for nearly a year now.)

[@gamer_debbie]

Yay! You're stronger than I am! I don't think I could ever, for any reason, let go of that extra saddlebag space. But even worse to see your items there and not be able to get to them!

[@raventhorX]

Thought communication in the app was separate from in game communication. Did they finally change that? Thats the thing i want the most. Back in the day world of warcraft had something like that in their version of a similar app. I coud litterally chat in guild chat when not logged in and see what everyone in game was discussing.

[@gamer_debbie]

I do remember that for Warcraft! Fantastic for guild leaders and others who want to keep an ear open at all times to the community. There are FC / Community group chats in the app, but you're right - it's not real-time FC chat synced to the game as the other members all have to have been registered to the app for it to work at present. But it's not beyond the realm of possibility that they can change it in the future...

[@alpine115]

So when it bills, it bills for the 5$ for every month right? So if you're on the 6month sub plan it'll charge 30$?

[@gamer_debbie]

This is correct! 💜

[@treebush]

I wish they would allow us to play mahjong or triple triad on the app even if it was a few dollars a month

[@gamer_debbie]

I'd be playing Triple Triad everywhere. XD

[@098Xzibit]

Honestly hate additional paid featured and microtransactions in an MMO game that's subbased + base price + expansion ... That's kinda ridiculous.

[@gamer_debbie]

Sub + base game + expansion + Addl purchases has been the MMO format for over 20 years now. It's hard to think of a large game that doesn't follow it. Now, buying the same reskinned FIFA game year after year for full price is absolutely ridiculous. 🙊

[@benmorrow1701]

The Kupo nuts though…. WOW had a good companion app, at least when I used to play. No limits on maintenancing auctions.

[@gamer_debbie]

I do remember the one for WoW. It would be nice to have something similar, but I imagine the reason why we don't has something to do with RMT or bots.

[@wanderingdelonix]

is this app available for free trial players? thank you for the informative video

[@gamer_debbie]

You're welcome!💜 Unfortunately, the app can't be used with a free-trial account - but it can be used with both standard and entry-level paid accounts.

[@wanderingdelonix]

@@gamer_debbie i see. thank you for answering my question!

[@JoeyJSawyers]

IMO, paying for the service to even use the app, to then be asked to pay per transaction for retainer stuff, it’s a no from me. I’m gonna sub for 1 month to get the stuff off my extra retainer and then not sign up for it again. :\

[@gamer_debbie]

I understand your point of view. I find that the kupo nuts free from logging in usually take care of anything I really want to do, so there's no *need* to pay for transactions if you don't want to. I haven't made a purchase from the app in the years that I've had it.

[@SDunne]

It's been good since Endwalker, especially for selling items.

[@gamer_debbie]

It's hard to corner the dye market if you aren't there pushing those 3 stacks. 💜

[@iamrayvell3052]

i only got it for the xtra retainer plus chocobo bag 😆😆

[@gamer_debbie]

I definitely can't live without the extra chocobo bag now! 😉

[@SonySteals]

“Hi gAmErS!” oof

[@gamer_debbie]

I get that it might be a bit cerebral for some people, but it's because my handle is GAMER Debbie. 😉

[@abeldiaz3877]

I haven't and have no plans to download the app. I don't need FF14 to take over my away time as well 😢

[@gamer_debbie]

I understand that reasoning! 💜

[@jesus123lozano]

I just hate the fact i have to write my one time password almost each time i wanna log in there.

[@gamer_debbie]

I also use a 1-time password, but it keeps me signed in nearly all the time unless I log out or there's an update to the app - so it doesn't make me use it too often. If it's making you use it frequently, there should be an option to keep you signed in on the device you're using.

[@NeocrimsonX]

I forgot my one time password lmao

[@HeartPliz]

Naw, they log you out almost every time monthly its lowkey annoying as shit.

[@jesus123lozano]

@@HeartPliz for real, specially mog station… yo i think type my OTP like 4 times before i can even purchase

[@chloe-sunshine7]

@@NeocrimsonX I'm sorry if I'm misunderstanding your joke here, but just in case. Isn't the one time password a temporary one that you read while typing it in? So you don't have to remember it because it's provided to you by some external device?

[@VoltKraken5555]

Too bad I can't use some of my thousands of ventures...

[@gamer_debbie]

Agreed. I have 6000 ventures I saved up for DT, and I still don't think that's enough for very long. lol

[@macksryder4398]

YOU GET AN EXTRA RETAINER AND SADDLEBAG?!

[@treebush]

If you pay

[@gamer_debbie]

$5 a month. A regular retainer costs $3 a month. So it's getting an extra saddlebag for $2 a month. I'd give up a coffee for that. 😉

[@Daniikar]

Yeah pay for mog coins! When I'm already paying for the app? Makes sense?

[@gamer_debbie]

I mean, if mobile app revenue is a trillion dollar a year business, it must make sense to quite a few people. 🙊 Though I definitely understand your opinion on it. I haven't purchased any myself.

[@Daniikar]

@@gamer_debbie yeah but we are already paying for the app, so they totally shouldn't charge us twice

[@chloe-sunshine7]

@@Daniikar but aren't they charging you once for one thing and once for another thing? Or am I misunderstanding?

[@michaels2077]

how many kupo nuts for a quick venture?

[@harkennu]

1

[@idontmindpineappleonapizza9591]

ah i might buy it..

[@gamer_debbie]

It's worth giving a try and if it's not something you use much, there's no obligation to continue. I love pineapple on pizza, btw. 💜