- Sq. Enix and Lightspeed Studios have teamed up on Ultimate Myth XIV Cellular
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Sq. Enix is making an attempt every other Ultimate Myth identify on cellular with a game of the 2013 MMORPG Ultimate Myth XIV.
Named Ultimate Myth XIV Cellular, the identify is being “in particular adapted” for cellular and advertised at current PC and console avid gamers in addition to beginners.
Whilst Sq. Enix evolved and printed the unique, Tencent-owned Lightspeed Studios is growing the brand new iteration. Sq. Enix will as soon as once more tackle publishing tasks and supervise the challenge.
Adapting to a cellular target audience
In a YouTube video discussing the announcement, Ultimate Myth XIV manufacturer and director Naoki Yoshida mentioned that Lightspeed Studios approached him with the speculation of a Ultimate Myth XIV cellular model.
“To be truthful, I had a actually sturdy want to [release it on mobile], however I believed it could be tough and was once about to surrender,” he mentioned (translated by means of YouTube subtitles).
Yoshida needed to give “beautiful difficult comments” on recreation design to make the identify “more uncomplicated for cellular customers”, deciding to construct it extra as an informal recreation to be performed for brief classes. It’s a unique philosophy to the console and PC variations so Cellular will function one after the other when it launches.
Sq. Enix additionally printed that Ultimate Myth XIV has hit 30 million lifetime installs throughout its more than a few platforms – PS3, PS4, PS5, Xbox Collection X/S, and PC.
An authentic liberate date for the cellular MMO hasn’t but been showed, however pre-registrations are open as of the disclose trailer’s debut.
Studies of a cellular recreation in line with Ultimate Myth XIV arose this August after a Chinese language licence was once granted, even though no authentic phrase was once given by means of Sq. Enix or Tencent. It was once unclear on the time whether or not this might be a port, a ground-up game or one thing else totally.
In the end, Ultimate Myth XIV seems to be a loyal game optimised for cellular, marking Sq. Enix’s newest cellular manoeuvre following recreation closure after recreation closure and “ordinary losses” financially.
Ultimate 12 months’s cellular Ultimate Myth, Ever Disaster, in line with the preferred Ultimate Myth VII IP, took greater than a 12 months to hit $100 million gross earnings by means of AppMagic estimates.
In the meantime, Ultimate Myth: Courageous Exvius was once closed down after making $900 million.
Whether or not Ultimate Myth XIV Cellular can carve out an area of its personal continues to be observed.
