What is the status of the mobile app?
TL;DRA Star Citizen mobile app is not planned for 2018 and still needs work and game-side definition; 2018 mobile effort goes to improving Spectrum on mobile, with the app remaining a future goal.
Now there's a little bit of misinformation there. We've never planned the mobile app to come out in 2018, right?
Correct. If I'm to try to answer the question as truthfully as possible, like you mentioned, a Star Citizen mobile app is not planned for 2018, unfortunately, because we still have a lot of work to do to get to something that's acceptable. There are also a lot of things left to define on the game side, what services are going to be made available through that. That doesn't mean we're not working on improving the mobile experience for Spectrum, which is a very important piece of work that we're currently circling back on. And so this means better responsive support on mobiles. Specifically, we're looking at shrinking the size of our build, which is still pretty large, and so loading it on an older iPhone is going to suck. We've done some work in 2017 on the mobile keyboards, which turned out to be a huge can of worms. Huge can of worms. You have no idea. And so at least now it's potent. We're putting a lot of effort into trying to improve that. But most of the mobile-related work for 2018 is focused around improving the mobile Spectrum support.
Now, of course, the Star Citizen mobile app was one of our old crowdfunding stretch goals way back in the early days. So that is definitely something that is on our list, definitely something that will be developed at some point in our future.
But we want that to have some gameplay interaction and not just be a social app. And so there's more to that.