FFXIV Mobile is Better than the PC Version??

[@kaisun-ro6tc]

hi，I'm a Chinese beta player.The game is geared towards the world.but Tested in China。 1、FFXIV Mobile use "Unreal Engine 4" 2、developed by Tencent. 3、The development team is a veteran FF14 player.

[@seekittycat]

I hope you're having lots of fun

[@MechaMeister]

whats the concensus among chinese player for the beta? mostly positive or meh?

[@CliveRosfield.16]

@@MechaMeister Im sure its positive so far because Arthar streamed the game and came out with a very positive view of the game. The systems and QOL is actually most ways better than the PC version!

[@ArtDecoAddict]

that walking/running during combat animation is clean, props to the guys that did it

[@TajinQ]

I've seen some really dumb and uneducated comments down there so as a reminder : The mobile market and pc/console market are completely different. It's not a replacement for the original mmo, it's another product created to attract a different audience. Mobile game is HUGE in the east, but abandoning FF14 on console/pc would mean losing a majority of the western consumers. The mobile version was not created by the same team, and they can implement many features that the original game can't because of the old engine and spaghetti code already there. You are not being ignored. If you don't like mobile games that's cool, so do I and many others. But not everything has to be made specifically for you in mind. Stop acting like an entitled kid.

[@Alcadria]

The amount of ill informed comments like yours are too common. ""The mobile version was not created by the same team, and they can implement many features that the original game can't because of the old engine and spaghetti code already there. You are not being ignored."" Yoshi P's message upon its reveal; and his press release, state otherwise. Lightspeed is in charge of crafting, gathering and adapting assets to the engine they created. CS3 is working on gameplay systems, job design, UI and encounter design. They are, quite literally, working on this and making it a better version than PC and console. You would know this if you actually took a moment to look at any of the messages and interviews they've had about the mobile version. It's a sister game on a brand new engine that is being co-developed by Square Enix on the engine that Lightspeed created. CS3, by their own admission, is actively involved in its production and development.

[@fardin.fkr3]

@@Alcadria idk where you got your information from but on the offical website it says "developed by lightspeed and supervised by SE" i doubt supervise would mean designing the game in an unfamiliar engine that someone else developed

[@fardin.fkr3]

@@Alcadria i rewatched the yoshi p interview and he always says words like "oversee", " provide feedback" "played through early builds" and he never says CB3 is actually doing anything regarding its development

[@Blagno4]

@@Alcadria You just validated their comment despite saying "no you're wrong" at the start it's very funny

[@kaisun-ro6tc]

@@fardin.fkr3 hi im test player，ff14m use "Unreal Engine4" not“Lightspeed”

[@Ryies12]

It's going to be so fucked up when the mobile version gets more frequent content updates than the actual game lmao

[@justsomeguy4422]

bound to happen, make a mobile game, gotta keep up with the mobile market, a current top mobile games PUMP out content way faster than most MMOs. so i expect with as much content thats already in the game, im sure they have a LOT already prepared to get released to keep people on it during pc clients potential downtime.

[@FuIIDiveVR]

Of course it will. FF14 pc has years of content vs a new game just came out.

[@NatiiixLP]

Chinese companies are extremely fast at copying, so they can copy and pump out the past 12 years of XIV content in like 2 years in a reduced form, easily.

[@jamestan5105]

Yeah. Square can expand on this. PC and Console gamers won't be happy. As there may be exclusive features.

[@DSTkunn]

Honestly, one thing that's been on mind for the potential of the mobile game changing blue mage into an actual job instead of what they have in ffxiv currently.

[@remustdr246]

I feel SE might have caused themselves some problems with this mobile version, cause I honestly doubt pc version is gonna get some of the features mobile is gonna have, and its gonna upset some people

[@ikeaira8701]

we'll see how the monetization is handled and decide from there. I heard tell it'll cost a dollar to create a FC

[@StormierNik]

I think they fully expected it. Remember, Yoship has a hand in overlooking its development also. He isn't the producer or director, but he's looking at what is being done. He has plenty of history with missteps in the main game, and is very aware of what will cause criticism. Think about it this way though from a marketing perspective. You want to offer this game to an audience who doesn't currently play FFXIV. That's the main audience target. However, how do you get some FFXIV players to be interested in it anyway? By having features that not even the main game has, that only dedicated fans would notice. That will help drum up hype and excitement of the game actually being pretty good, and then you gauge reaction of what is appealing most to fans to end up finding a focus for what to change in the main game. I know people like to act as if the team doesn't ever listen, but we all know thats not true. They're just slow to react due to their extremely strict pipeline just like with needing more rewards for Criterion, and wanting challenging 24 man content. So absolutely keep voicing criticism of the main game in comparison, because it will affect it. My primary ask is to have netcode at least on par with this mobile version. The fact that the main game's netcode is being outdone by a mobile game title, even if its a new engine, is honestly embarassing.

[@Temptest09]

@@StormierNik And thats really the core issue. Is that mobile is getting a lot of what people have been asking for, since HW. Better netcode, better friends list and a glam book, on top of other pretty good QoL's and features. Everything else you said has some validity to it, but at the end of the day its the fact that mobile version is getting a lot of what players wanted in the main game making it an overall better version/experience of XIV. Agreed its embarrassing.

[@Temptest09]

@@ikeaira8701 what does the monitization of the game have to do with the PC version potentially not getting some of its features? OP isn't talking about monitization. lmao

[@remustdr246]

@@StormierNik honestly at this point myself and a lot of players feel like SE just doesn't care about anything besides their bottom line. They have had what most would consider a gamebreaking bug for years, which noclippy and alex solved a long time ago, and yet they have done jack all about it. Either they don't care because 3rd party tools have already fixed the issue(which they are explicitly against) or they just dont care.

[@xd3d034997]

This is pretty much a Wild Rift situation. Old ass game riddled with decades old unfixable spaghetti code getting a major remake by a Chinese developer in mobile platform, and ending up wayyy better than the original game in every way.

[@Medbread]

That's good news for all the doomsayers then, considering Wild Rift hasn't detracted from PC League's success at all.

[@koaga224]

I was actually going to mention Wildrift being legit better then LoL too lol.

[@Ninheldin]

@@Frogstomp333 It can work forever, it will just get worse as time goes on or until SE invests the money 14 makes back into it instead of games that were doomed to failure before release. We can give them shit for it all we want but until they get the dev time to go back to fix it it will still be an issue.

[@Ninheldin]

While it does have some nice QoL people have been asking for I wouldnt say this version actually looks better then the original, mostly because its a mobile game and shows it.

[@ndt7379]

I'd say the major difference is that other games at least use it as a valid excuse, attempting to update certain things that are feasible. Riot has used "Spaghetti code" as a crutch excuse to flat out not work on small fixes, that only pile up and become worse the more things were built on top of them.

[@elduardo2496]

0:13 don't say that about Arthars, he's cool.

[@DoktorWieg]

I'm optimistic about trying this. Some of the jobs looks like they play a bit differently than their retail counterparts and it looks pretty fun, not gonna lie. If anything, the fact that it'll be free to play means you can just try it and if you don't like it, you won't lose any cash over it.

[@iSkollz]

just like lol mobile. it runs smoother and looks better than the PC version It's a sad world we live in.

[@SteveSmith-br3vu]

Wild rift doesn't look better than pc loo

[@Yokai_Yuri]

@@SteveSmith-br3vu The close up models looks x10000 times better than their pc counterparts. In-game models look better as well. The only thing that seems inferior are attack effects and the map.

[@Pekins_]

Wild Rift client is better in every way, not only the champions look better but you can do stuff like looking at the 3D model of a skin before buying it, but on PC all you can do is look at a JPEG of the skin that doesnt represent in-game model, almost 2025 and I dont think its changing anytime soon.

[@Frankthetank302]

It doesn't look better once you zoom in the animations are tone tones look at the fire aoes lol

[@FuIIDiveVR]

PC gamers has poor standards.

[@MrLastkillers]

Just the fact that u not get interrupted while summoning the mount and walking already make it better than PC version. And iirc Arthars also said if u casting on a enemy and he dies your cast also doesn't get interrupted game auto swap for u on another enemy.

[@Maelstrom210]

hoy shit

[@Frankthetank302]

I could of swore that's already in game

[@NatiiixLP]

The last part actually sounds pretty bad for dungeons because you're guaranteed to pull some random unintentional shit as a caster.

[@GuitarJester89]

​@@NatiiixLP, unless it's set to only auto change to engaged mobs.

[@FuIIDiveVR]

Playing a PC mmo on a cellphone screen and it's way batter? This new gen really baffles me.

[@Icycrits]

While I'd be okay with a 6 month maintenance, you think SE would turn off their cash cow for even a single day? No, they won't. But what they need to do is hire developers who are specifically trained and tasked to rebuild the engine slowly to allow for features that are industry standard. Jagex does this with Old School RuneScape and are now updating features that they also told us were "impossible" for years. And I bet you that game's code from 2001 makes FFXIV's look competent.

[@Blahblah-oo7lk]

A lot of FFXIV issues can be chalked up to how Japan was behind the curve in MMO development back in 2011-2013 and even so today and the fact they made a two year salvage job didn't help matters. Japanese developers also had to be dragged kicking and screaming with things that existed for years like rollback and updated internet infrastructure. Sure Japan's old ways worked for Japan but they also forget that they are global company despite all the executives being situated in Japan. They incurred so much technological debt and didn't really pay much into it until EW and DT but by that point the technological gap and debt so massive it takes a lot to untangle. The devs have been slowly chipping away some issues present since ARR and HW but it is slow due to their strict pipeline. I hope mobile is a testbed for new ideas that devs on PC can use for a template or figure out how to tackle the monster debt they have.

[@KalanosYT]

ugh why does the movement look so much better

[@c_huvaknunh9138]

I'm betting that Yoshida's hands are tied by the higher-ups in SE who want profit over improving the game. It's sad, but they're doing the same shit that Blizzard did.

[@mana-azir6808]

wouldnt completely bet on it since Yoshida is also part of the higher ups when he was promoted to be part of the Board along with few others

[@c_huvaknunh9138]

@mana-azir6808 he stepped down from the board of directors position due to him wanting to continue making FF14 and the completion of FF16.

[@Farzeezy]

For them to stop the servers from running and fix the issues, it's not as simple as a coding solution. Their physical infrastructure is also somewhat tied to it. So not only would it be time consuming, but it would cost them an astronomical amount. They would have probably have to dedicate a full year to migrate it to a new system with zero regression. And that's an optimistic estimate too. - A Software Engineer

[@kenamada5451]

The walking and running looks stellar. The running while mid-animation during moves is also clean. Definitely need that in the PC. I honestly would not mind 6months of no content for this QoL updating.

[@Ninheldin]

People are already leaving because there is nothing to do on the current cycle, if there was a cycle where there was no new content and just some pieces of QoL there would be a mass exodus

[@kenamada5451]

@Ninheldin I feel like if there was full transparency and even a shutting down of the servers people would understand. As it stands right now the game is very limited to its bad coding and layering ontop of that cake is making it worse. I think a good majority of the players who love and care about this game would gladly wait for it to be the best it could be. I know I would be.

[@Rhob81]

If they say 6 months server downtime to fix all the shit I'll gladly take it. Hell I'd even keep my sub up in that scenario.

[@MasterLittica]

I would be down for that, no content updates or even work on updates for p to say even a year while they work on either fixing the spegetti code or porting things to another engine

[@engelsein24]

They have to (and I’m sure they are) simultaneously working on a new engine that has this kind of quality of life . They have to at one point sunset the old engine that’s at this point very restrictive, it will probably come together with a level squish and a new Story arc start (a new starting point for players). When? My Copium is 8.0 but let’s be real is probably gonna be by 10.0 or after.

[@Masterandroxx]

And wasting all the time and effort to do the "updates" we got with Dawntrail? Nah, DT was the perfect moment to start anew like 2.0 and they didn't. At this point they will NEVER do that, they will just bypass the problems we have with new clunky solutions (like the Outfit system because they could never do a Transmog system) until this new saga will end and then drop a new MMO I guess (in like more than 10 years anyway)

[@Shamshouka]

​@@Masterandroxx Imagine they will release new engine at 20 anniversary of FFXIV, people will have fun for 1-2 expansion then SE will said "you know what we better make a new one" Like, even if we looking at situation that quality of mobile version would push main game players to ask for all these features it will take another 5 years so... yeah, about 20 anniversary. In that time we already probably would see new Riot MMO or GW3 and probably some another unexpected good asian MMO. And with CS3 ability of clearing tech debt? they wouldn't be able to compete Nah, honestly, better to just start working at XVII online at that point. Probably with new team, pls don't invite Yoshi, let him just make single player games he probably would be better at it.

[@dewot1256]

They'll do it with the release of Final Fantasy XVIII in 2031.

[@anthonypayne2101]

I love the concept, but I can already say that what they WON'T do that they SHOULD is find a way to make it so you can use your same players on either platform.

[@evelynfive5684]

The UI and features really looks the game in 2024, not like outdated PC version.

[@ElderGamerX]

I feel like at this point, YoshiP should hand FF14 off to someone on the team he trusts and start work on a new MMO. Then we'd know if FF14 is holding YoshiP back, or if he's holding the game back.

[@BoscoBop]

'yes please' to a new ff mmo. ff xi started in 2002, ffxiv started 8 years later in 2010 so i'd say we're due for a new mmo now that we've reached 14 years of xiv. 'maybe' to yoship spearheading development. took him 3 expansions to greenlight fixing living dead and 5 expansions to fix blacklists? i'd want someone who gets us stuff we're asking for quite quickly if not right away, and gives us as much content as they can every patch cycle that doesn't fade away into obscurity as time goes on. i'd especially want someone who doesn't give us stuff like role play quests where you're forced to play as an NPC character with neutered skillsets. also there's the whole bit where the majority of content is locked behind story progression making it harder for friends to catch up and play with you... man the more i think about it, the more heavily i'm leaning in favor of someone else developing the next ff mmo. whatever strict and stubborn vision yoship has for mmos should stay in ffxiv.

[@akridx5712]

Yeah! I think it's time for a change. He may have saved FF14. But stagnation is starting to set in after all them years.

[@Mesarthim]

I saw arthar's video of titan. It makes retail look embarassing. Ironic since today's leveling roulette was ifrit.. a 1 minute smooth brain encounter.

[@KazaarLotha]

Wtf is going on with you guys? This is expert.why are you comparing that to leveling roulette?

[@CL-jq1xs]

For mobile it is current content though. In that case it should be compared to leveling trials in dawntrail.

[@somerandomdudeable]

I wouldn't be surprised of mobile FFXIV was more responsive and had better netcode than the orginial

[@kaisun-ro6tc]

The game engine is Unreal Engine 4

[@Blahblah-oo7lk]

The mobile has the benefit of not working with FFXIV's archaic Crystal Tools + early Luminous engine Frankenstein. Also mobile has the hindsight of 10 years of what could have been done better and they likely were getting input from the FFXIV team on what they would have done if they had the knowledge they do now.

[@thesunthrone]

Wonder what engine this mobile version is running on. It definitely looks slick - but that's what starting fresh free from 15 years of spaghetti code holding various systems together allows you to do.

[@kaisun-ro6tc]

im test player FF14m use "Unreal Engine4"

[@LastArcTenshiFansubs]

UE4

[@sebastiangula]

Mobile version is a great move because not everyone is a fan of MMO skill piano game and the game itself has a great story, which people are going to love.

[@Shamshouka]

Only thing left aside of (ofc) catching up with MSQ, is release beards, than mobile will totally eclipse PC version

[@Medbread]

I honestly think it'll be really cool and I'll be able to play this at work. Plus Voice Chat means I can try my hand at Voice RP

[@Rogsnutle]

Of course it's better than the PC version, it's a different dev team

[@SniperKing-O]

When this comes out, I hope this inspires SE to give Yoshi-P the funds and manpower he needs to fully upend all the old spaghetti code crap in the background of FFXIV so it can actually compete with its mobile counterpart. 😆

[@hirokjyotideka5571]

They have better movement physics, facial features, expressions and hairworks. WTF!?

[@fardin.fkr3]

they either have to fix the game or make a video explaining why it's impossible/too hard to fix it. no one's gonna take them serious if a mobile version has better features

[@Blahblah-oo7lk]

They already did numerous times and the excuse was "technological debt." This concept isn't new or unknown and in fact expected. It makes sense any tech project will incur technological debt to get the project out in time. Tech and gaming companies do it all the time, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft are examples of companies that have utilized technological debt to get the ball rolling on their projects/products and the hope is to fix the problems later. FFXIV started with a lot of it in 2.0 because it was a rush salvage job when Japan didn't have the knowhow of how to build modern MMOs at the time. A lot of basic things expected in a MMO were pretty new to most Japanese developers on the team and Yoshi P brought some of those new ideas to the game due to his experience with playing all sorts of MMOs. The thing is that most companies, once the project is out, dedicate people into untangling bad code, undo bad practices, and update and streamline. However, the team at FFXIV didn't really start tackling the technological debt until around late ShB (which was impacted by the pandemic) and EW, hence the slowed down content cadence. Beforehand, the team were making workaround their constrained engine (using now two defunt in-house engines), which also creates problems when untangling or trying to fix the foundational issues. But by that point the large technological debt they started with ballooned into a massive one and is almost insurmountable. There are still some devs on the team chipping away at it as seen with small fixes in EW and DT patch notes but it is like trying to finish a payment on a student loan that has a high interest rate. Additionally, the team size has expanded but it is still relatively small for such a large and successful MMO which compounds the problem of technological debt.

[@Tecolote41]

@@Blahblah-oo7lk TL;DR 😴

[@SonictheNinja]

In game VC is WILD!! I can't imagine with all the shybois on pc xD It hurts to see how much more polished this is vs the main game they straight up neglect!

[@ashleybutcher6041]

I could be way off the mark here but im wondering if the mobile version will allow more experimentation for what could be implemented into the main version of the game based on player feedback and interest?

[@aryhon6222]

my hopes is that the new features on the mobile version get a lot of community support and then maybe later down the line they can implement the cool new features to the main game but i also have no idea how coding works lol

[@EarthQuaKKi]

Shows how lazy SE is and just wanna milk ppls with subs, new studio and already improving the game and f2p

[@CaffeinatedKing]

"The mods are still going to be better" yes but I'd rather the game just have better native support to begin with, I don't want to have to bog my game down with a bunch of bullshit just to be able to wear shit I want to wear, or to be able to have more control over how my character looks. Running 14 with a shitton of mods and the ability to allow other players to see those custom changes just results in so much un-optimized bullshit slowly dragging down the game's performance long term and clogging up the HDD with nonsense. Not to mention console players can't even engage with that side of the community.

[@melz2195]

HDD is already a bad drive by today standards makes sense why you don't wanna involve yourself with bunch of bullshit

[@Kiobao]

Is it bad that I'm more excited for FFXIV Mobile than I have been for FFXIV in multiple xpacs since stormblood?

[@WonderBlubber]

does xeno have any videos where he isn't eating?

[@kimfry4019]

I don't think so

[@bekir51500]

He always does ract when he eats, so he is always eating

[@Yokai_Yuri]

FF14 team need to shut down the game for at least half a year to fix all the game's problems and update it to modern standards. I can believe we are 11 years in and we still got one of the most basic character creations in MMO with the same options and templates since the game launched.

[@yeahnahmate7]

Good don't need them to ruin characters, they already ruined Au'ra in DT

[@dndamn]

It would take far longer then that

[@StormierNik]

So, kinda crazy cope here, but there's a couple things Yoship has said in interviews not too far apart from each other. He's stated that he wants to make one new MMO from the ground up before he dies. But he's also stated that FFXIV is his lifes work, and he's going to work on it until he dies. The ONLY way he could do both, is if he made a new FFXIV from the ground up. Realistically, he's had the team work on two FFXIV's at the same time in the past before under worse circumstances with less manpower and resources. Additionally, they don't have a strict deadline and it could take longer over time.

[@GeekEntertainmentConsumer]

bro, exactly

[@jamesonthemap1768]

It would need more time and nobody will wait a year lol

[@nacari0]

When may release come?

[@ThatCasulGuy]

8:15 why would they do that when they need to release savage alliance raid on christmas eve?!

[@Sweetman-d3r]

Im really curious as to how they'll handle msq. I cant imagine doing msq on my phone with all those lines of dialogue and endless cutscenes. lol Mobile gaming is supposed to be in and out.

[@rewplaypark]

Shutdown the game for weeks? months? It would take YEARS, and we know what will happen with that much of content drought

[@adhityonugroho913]

100% better than the PC Version

[@AgataGaming]

So, can we play this mobile version on pc without android emulator ? anyone know ?

[@Arkeis121]

But will it have controller support?

[@WaifuHunterPhD]

man i want vc in the pc version

[@aaronclay4665]

Also isc if ppl can use mods for glamorous, but, they should and have to fix cuz of.the ppl who don't want to mod and the console

[@Caen-MK]

SE could make a ton of money by making official mod tools for hair, weapon, facial features, armor, and animations. Run it like an app shop at a decent price. SE gets a small cut, modders get majority, and a possible pathway into the company if certain mods get popular enough. SE wins with money, Modders get paid, customers get a lot more choices for customizing their characters more. Expand to themes, settings, emotes, ect. This way PC, PS, and Xbox folks get options. Honestly kind of amazed they haven’t done something like this already.

[@at-sb6gc]

That's what I like about wow better they are quicker at adding content and fixing things ff14 takes fucking forever on anything

[@lexielsama8339]

the animations are way better damn

[@ojosama]

I'd be cool with the shutting down the game for three months to overhaul things that need to get fixed and improved. A whole patch cycle.

[@Frankthetank302]

How mucb will it cost monthly whats the gotcha

[@artz991]

I just came to see the cry babies in the comment about fixing the pc version 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 if i don't know anything else i do know that mmorpg gamers cry about everything even if something is going well.

[@airget]

It is hilarious how short-sighted SE is when it comes to cosmetic mods. They could make bank if they did something like "custom-animation" mods for your character to make them stand out more. Heck let's even ante that up. Custom Animation Mods you can unlock through Cash Shop. Achievements. Find in content. Bam you just created a new avenue of character expression.

[@odyk708]

I disagree, Then they will find more ways to milk us lmao.

[@esko911]

seems i might actuallly drop my sub for actual FFXIV PC after playing it off and on since 1.0 and 2.0 and then permanently staying after SHB till now. i have an otg usb hub anyways i use for my phone to play other games and i can even hook it up to my PC monitor and play it as if its steamdeck or switch... shame that mobile version is feeling alot better than the real actual version

[@Cybersleuthksb]

Lmao I stopped after endwalker story cause they clear was just gonna have yoshi p keep lying about the game after years. But the mobile game is infinitely better than the original 😂😂😂😂it’s laughable. Keep spending that money in the cash shop

[@Rogsnutle]

Yeah, I really wish that Mobile would change up the story after Shadowbringers, or more accurately, KEEP the original story and not rugpull and retcon everything since Yoshi P's mad it wasn't his story getting all the praise

[@xAramil0x]

considering ff14 it's pratically then only thing making money for SE since the rest of their releases were garbage or failed to make a good profit they can't put the game down for months

[@aaronclay4665]

...the rest of there releases made money... they just didn't MEET SE CRAZY ASS EXPECTATIONS... They sold 3 to 4 million of both rebirth and 16 unless both games cost more than 200mill to make ( which I doubt since rebirth is a lot of access from remake andn16 used the same team as 14....they saved a ton of money) now they lost on shit line Babylon fall and avengers. But they just mad it didn't sell 10 to 20 million copies

[@Alcadria]

@@Ryies12 XV had over a decade worth of hype and troubled development behind it too.

[@itashidorr]

Sadly i think it would take way more than a few weeks to fix the spaghetti code.

[@faurier]

Okay, but is FFXIV mobile BALDER? I think not.

[@dontawory7807]

wow an in game voice chat for a mobile game!!!! ff 14 on console and pc should be ashamed.

[@TsuyomiDanny]

It has fucking in game vc??? Wild

[@annikapride1598]

i dont see that as a good thing as many minors will play the game so it might end up with abuse.

[@melz2195]

@@annikapride1598 it's a double edges sword but it's not much of a problem if it can be turn off

[@viiiRA_]

5:02 Mobile game where you chill?... Have you seen the Genshit InTrash community? Mobile also has CoD and League.

[@jiedragonhub]

"try to emulate hair" lmaooooo

[@TaigaGalette]

mobile has no positionals PC sucks

[@FuIIDiveVR]

love the click bait

[@melz2195]

you can't deny the mobile version is much better than what we have rn

[@arohk4415]

Who asked for mobile shit, they should work on and fix the crap in actual game instead.

[@YaoiKillerProduction]

Yeah, the real mobile version of this game is on PC handheld consoles

[@damaris.crayon]

It's being developed by a separate company. Square is hands off with this.

[@3mileisland516]

If this game has ANY kind of success on mobile then it will become the 'actual game' and retail FFXIV will be sunsetted... Strangely I'm not really hearing much concern about this being the replacement for the current FFXIV. People are acting like it's just some little side project! This is the future guys..! Oh well. Also, does Xenos EVER stop eating in his videos?!? 🤯🤣

[@cvtoper6072]

It's simple as money

[@soppo_404]

if you have to ask "who asked for this" you obviously arnt the market

[@SterlingHyde]

nobody ask for this shit.. Given how the slow updates and lack of content for 14 has been.. now the direction of this... WHHHHY

[@the7blargs]

Because the mobile market is huge. And it's a whole different team working on it. So it's not taking away from the main game.

[@MechaMeister]

stop being ignorant. mobile market is huge

[@AkunoTane]

So fast!!!

[@arohk4415]

everything is fast when you have grandma reflexes.

[@0siris-Abraxas]

Ugh it looks so shitty.

[@Jozaros]

Hmm, nah, it's a hard pass for me. I was dozing off watching this game play.

[@LastArcTenshiFansubs]

Well, it's far better than retail. Retail ver is shit AF. SE needs to overhaul the retail ASAP, otherwise it's a garbage for modern standard.

[@ChocoboGordo]

Tardbait