Have you ever heard that the critically acclaimed MMORPG Ultimate Fantasy XIV is getting a cellular model? In a video announcement, Ultimate Fantasy XIV sport director Naoki Yoshida introduced FFXIV Cell, a joint manufacturing between Sq. Enix and Tencent’s Lightspeed Studios. The announcement was accompanied by a teaser trailer displaying Warriors of Gentle in areas all throughout the sport’s world of Eorzea.

It appears as if FFXIV Cell can be a reset of types for the MMORPG, that includes content material from the bottom sport with out something from its 5 expansions. Within the video, Yoshida mentioned that Lightspeed Studios was working to, “faithfully recreate the story, duties, battle content material, and different facets of the unique sport.” Lightspeed Studios, identified for PUBG Cell, is a subsidiary of Tencent which has had success adapting quite a lot of cellular video games from different firms’ IP together with Monster Hunter, Pokémon, and Name of Responsibility.

The teaser trailer didn’t precisely present what FFXIV Cell fight would appear to be. However judging from the little little bit of battle it did present, it looks as if Sq. Enix is likely to be aiming to make a FFXIV model of Ultimate Fantasy XV Pocket Version — a stripped down cellular model of the 2016 RPG with simplified fight controls and chibi-fied character artwork. FFXIV Cell’s web site boasts that gamers can have entry to 9 job courses (the full-version of the sport has 21) that they’ll be capable of change courses with a single faucet fairly than requiring gamers to dig into their stock and equip a job stone.

Neither Yoshida’s video nor the web site went into element about how a lot the sport will value and what, if any, conventional cellular sport parts will make it in. Nonetheless, based on a report in Japanese gaming journal Famitsu, FFXIV Cell can be free-to-play however won’t include any gacha parts. This doubtlessly means the sport should incorporate monetization another approach and if Sq. Enix is aware of something in any respect about its participant base, then anticipate to pay for mounts and, critically, participant costumes. In any case, glamour is the true endgame.