This idea has been stuck in my head ever since I started playing again, though I'm not even sure if they would be possible.
My first idea was having a chat room like experience with your linkshell(s) on your phone. So you could talk to your friends and keep up with your social shell(s) even if you couldn't be near a pc or console.
My second mobile app idea was having an interactive Auction House app. You would be able to view the Auction House and make purchases from your main character's Gil supply and have the items sent to your Mog House. I don't think this one would be hard to do. I mean FFXIAH.com already does this without the ability to make purchases.
I just like these ideas as they would allow me, and you, a way to play my favorite mmo while on lunch at work or when I'm not at home.
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I always thought a sprite based "FFXI Crafting" mini game would be a fantastic way to incorporate Vana'diel into a mobile environment. Make it use your real account info, but have it sprite based with access to the AH and the ability to travel to each of the guilds. You could chat with your LS and use the AH, buy and sell merchandise, play with your inventory but not visit anywhere outside of the cities and not do anything but crafting. Also, keep a token downtime for traveling in between cities for the guilds (say, the duration of an airship flight, 5 minutes or so), but have intra-city guild travel be instant (such as between the goldsmithing and smithing guilds in Bastok) and make it so the actual player character is not visible and cannot be interacted with while in the crafting game. Plus, no bazaaring. Normal guild hours and guild rules still pertain.
I know for sure there are times I'd have 20 minutes to log in and burn some fire crystals into silver ingots, but not have time to do anything more hardcore.
Think of it as Cooking Mama for the MMO set.
I know for sure there are times I'd have 20 minutes to log in and burn some fire crystals into silver ingots, but not have time to do anything more hardcore.
Think of it as Cooking Mama for the MMO set.
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Turin wrote:
(Zelduh)'s won the argument by going so far off the deep end that no one is willing to follow.
It would be extremely awesome, but it does bring up two major problems.
First, it's going to cost SE a lot of money to develop and make something like this, money they have to syphon away from somewhere. And since FFXI isnt exactly high on their priority list, the odds of something like this happening is around the same chance of walking outside and being run over by a chocobo stampede.
Second, mobile devices arent the most secure. If any interaction could take place between a mobile device and FFXI, it would need to be heavily encrypted. Or atleast programmed properly and securely. We'd be back in the days similar to people HEX-editing items in the fishing list fishing up Beds again otherwise.
I would however absolutely love it. I'd imagine it would be similar to the old Dreamcast games. They had amazing games, but also you could download a minigame on the save cartridge. It had a little screen, and you could play all kinds of things on it. Sonic for instance had a little Tamagochi like thing for raising your Chao's on the memorycard. And if you did well, you could obtain items (and raised Chao) that you could use in your actual game again.
If FFXI could only have something remotely similar to it, or atleast a chance to obtain some minor items while away from home, it would be very interesting. I'd definately pay for an App like that from the store.
First, it's going to cost SE a lot of money to develop and make something like this, money they have to syphon away from somewhere. And since FFXI isnt exactly high on their priority list, the odds of something like this happening is around the same chance of walking outside and being run over by a chocobo stampede.
Second, mobile devices arent the most secure. If any interaction could take place between a mobile device and FFXI, it would need to be heavily encrypted. Or atleast programmed properly and securely. We'd be back in the days similar to people HEX-editing items in the fishing list fishing up Beds again otherwise.
I would however absolutely love it. I'd imagine it would be similar to the old Dreamcast games. They had amazing games, but also you could download a minigame on the save cartridge. It had a little screen, and you could play all kinds of things on it. Sonic for instance had a little Tamagochi like thing for raising your Chao's on the memorycard. And if you did well, you could obtain items (and raised Chao) that you could use in your actual game again.
If FFXI could only have something remotely similar to it, or atleast a chance to obtain some minor items while away from home, it would be very interesting. I'd definately pay for an App like that from the store.
Apps are actually relative cheap to develop. Android runs on plain old Java (currently Oracle is suing Google over this), and Apple's Objective C is annoying but not terribly difficult to learn if you know any other object oriented languages. The "Apple Tax" is a mere $99 for an Apple developer's license, and Google will let any Joe schmoe post an app on their store for free.
Of course, they'd have to devote the labor to the project, but you know what? They need to go ahead and just make a standard API so that XI can run on anything anyone feels like running it on. More labor intensive up front, but guarantees another decade of life in the game.
Of course, they'd have to devote the labor to the project, but you know what? They need to go ahead and just make a standard API so that XI can run on anything anyone feels like running it on. More labor intensive up front, but guarantees another decade of life in the game.
All jobs at level 99 Bard 4 Life
Hanging out in the Ionosphere these days ::Finale II HNM
Daurdabla 85 completed 3-18-2013 *** Gjallarhorn 95
Hanging out in the Ionosphere these days ::Finale II HNM
Daurdabla 85 completed 3-18-2013 *** Gjallarhorn 95
Turin wrote:
(Zelduh)'s won the argument by going so far off the deep end that no one is willing to follow.
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