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The Final Fantasy XIV Companion app needs a lot of work 3

• Posted by Yucca195 Owen April 21, 2019 Filed in Arts & Culture #Final Fantasy XIV  171 views
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  Monetization! Monetization is what makes life worth living! And that is a recurring theme of the next three categories in the app: Items, Sell and Buy. The Items category starts off pretty cool, actually, including categories that actually don't appear in FFXIV itself. You can sort through your personal inventory by consumables, crystals, turn-in items, weapons, armor, crafting materials and the like. It's a nice feature that saves you from FFXIV Gil having to sift through up to 140 pieces of inventory.
  
  Sadly, this is where the dream ends and dies. If you want to move inventory to your Chocobo Saddlebag or between your NPC retainers you have to buy into a premium tier of the app and it gets worse from there. What are basic functions in-game are monetized or deeply restricted in other ways in the app.
  
  That idea of putting things up on the auction house while I'm on my lunch break? Poof like Good King Moggle Mog XII (may his name echo in glory for all eternity, kupo). Moogles are kupo for Final Fantasy XIV Gil Kupo Nuts and now Kupo Nuts are a metacurrency tied to daily logins through FFXIV. Log in, get a nut each day and you can hold up to two at a time in the free portion of the app. These are spent toward buying and selling things on the auction house and if you buy into the premium side of the app, oh, you can have up to ten Kupo Nuts at a time!