FINAL FANTASY XIV Companion

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umm why is there even a free mode??? the only thing you can do is chat literally? you can NOT move items from one place to another and you can only sell one item a day or buy a item??? tf is the point of this other then to grab our money??? i went in thinking i could do pretty much everything a premium member could aside from the amount of nuts obtained per day and the amount i could hold. but no its literally useless unless you pay the 5$ and then your paying 5$ for a choco bag and a retainer when you could get two retainers for 4$.... i really fail to understand SE’s logic on this one. because the app is effectively useless (unless paying the 5$) and i dont need a chat application for ppl who have the same app when i have discord for that.... tfffff... And why isnt there in game chat support like rgere was pose to be that was the whole reason everyone was excited for this app. not so we have another discord taking up space on our phones..... please fix all the things i listed and ill give 5 stars. fix atleast some of them and ill give atleast a higher rating

I think this app is a great idea, I love being able to talk to friends on the go even when I’m not logged in. The kupo nut system is nice, I just wish maybe the free version had a little more incentive to be used, and $5.00 a month for an extra sub is a bit much for an app for a sub based game as it is. Perhaps give more kupo nuts for the free one, or like a weekly bonus for logging in each day- an extra 3 or so. I probably won’t be using the market transactions so something else to consider would be maybe implementing a way to use the kupo nuts or coins outside of that, maybe for small things in mogstation like a dye for every 5 or so, just something else. Also would be nice to be able to hold more kupo nuts at a time, I can’t remember right this second how many we can hold but I do remember thinking it wasn’t enough. I know it’s in early stages and people are complaining but I do think this is a nice handy little app! Please keep working on it, and don’t let the negative feedback from entitled bratty fans ruin yet another good thing devs have come up with. Thanks for the hard work guys!

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To start I would like to say that this app is a great idea because it’s cool to be able to chat with your FC and in-game friends or buy and sell items while you’re away, but there’s two things that completely defeat the purpose of this app. 1 You need to actually have your subscription running to even use this app. I got this app so I could stay in touch with my FC while I don’t currently have my subscription activated, so if I need to have my subscription running to use this then I might as well just log on to the game and talk with them there. 2 The synchronization is horrible. I renewed my subscription, downloaded this and saw that everything was synced up. Then I played the game for a while and started a FC and added someone to my friends list. After I refreshed the app several times and days later it’s still saying that I’m not currently in any FC and the friend I added is not appearing in my contacts (in the app, in the game it’s fine). I’ll give this two stars because I like the idea of this and if they let you use this while your subscription is inactive and it actually synced up properly then this app would be amazing, but right now there’s really no point. The better solution for staying in touch with your FC right now is just setting up a Discord server.

This Companion App is really useful. I like the functionality of being able to sort my inventory without logging in. I have not personally used the calendar planning function yet but i do like the chat function. At times I’d say the chat feels a bit unresponsive but is still decent. The market boards look great, although I wish I could try things on my character. Although I disagree with locking the extra features of the app(retainer inventory management etc.) behind a subscription service. I’m not willing to pay a monthly fee for a retainer, but I would be willing to pay a one time fee to unlock retainer inventory management and other things. Apart from that my biggest complaint is the silence. I’d give this app 4/5 stars if it had some music. It feels weirdly silent and I wish the prelude played in the app. On a side note I love the moogle sound for chat notifications it’s cute and fitting. But the lack of music in the app is discouraging, I’d love to have the simple prelude be able to turned on and off of the app.

As a fellow programmer I felt like I should comment on some issues that bothered me a lot! First of all, UI is a disaster, the menus, fonts and even the character visual is so amateurish. Look at the feet of the character image please and then tell me I am wrong! Secondly the chat functionality is very slow and laggy. chat ui, background and frame is really bad I mean they are presets of any app being developed! Please Square Enix do something about it. This seems like a freshman computer science student’s term project. Finally, as a long time player! I really thank you for your attempt to create such a convenience however this doesn’t look like Square Enix’s work. Please update this and I am sure many players will eventually subscribe for this service, but only if it works nicely.