Tencent Reportedly Developing an Elden Ring Mobile Game — Community Goes Nuclear: "Pay ¥80K to Revive Melina, How Many Q-Coins Per Life?"

One piece of intel has set the entire Souls-like community on fire — Tencent is reportedly developing a mobile version of Elden Ring.

The moment the news dropped, the NGA comment section transformed into a massive collective performance art project. No rage posts, no essays — just players operating in perfect unison, brainstorming every conceivable gacha monetization nightmare for a mobile Elden Ring.

One commenter set the gold standard early: "Pay real money to date Melina, or live in the sewers with that creepy dude for free." This single line captured the universal pain of every gacha player — no swiping, no waifu. Even better, someone actually replied "Wait, you can actually date her? I'm loading up my wallet right now." Another declared they'd drop ¥648 instantly if they could romance the "wooden girl" (木头, slang for Melina's famously blank personality). This wasn't anger anymore — this was acceptance after breaking down.

Smithing Stones obviously weren't spared either. One sharp commenter noted: "Upgrade materials are gacha-only. F2P players can fight Malenia with a +0 weapon and pure skill." The mental image of facing the game's most infamous boss with an unupgraded weapon — that's Tencent's idea of "hardcore difficulty."

If that wasn't spicy enough, someone posted a full pricing tier list: "Pay ¥80K to revive Melina, ¥160K for a party at the Roundtable Hold, ¥320K to become the Elden Lord's ultimate ladies' man." Clear price brackets, transparent pricing — truly a masterclass in mobile gacha monetization design.

There was also one serious nugget of information buried among the memes. An alleged insider commented: "I heard it's not their own studio — more like a publishing deal, similar to how Dengeki Bunko used to work: they license the IP to someone else to develop, and Tencent handles distribution." If true, this means Tencent may have merely acquired the Elden Ring IP for mobile, while actual development goes to an external studio. The commenter even dropped a hint about a certain BlazBlue-related company being involved.

One player cut through the noise with the real question: "How the hell do you play a Souls game on a touchscreen?! Is this even real?" Fair point — the precision combat of Elden Ring on a glass slab sounds like an absolute nightmare. Another commenter was already planning ahead though: "Can I get a Ranni dating sim instead?" Turns out what players really want isn't a mobile port — it's a romance simulator.

One commenter stacked up disclaimers before dropping a screenshot criticizing those who naively believed certain companies would "just make money quietly without invading other people's comfort zones" — a not-so-subtle jab at the Tencent expansion machine.

Someone else pivoted to a different long-suffering community: "If Elden Ring is getting a mobile port, a Bloodborne PC port is totally reasonable too, right? Or at least use the profits for Bloodborne 2?" Wishful thinking, perhaps, but the logic tracks.

Two comments served as the perfect closing statements for this entire circus: one solemnly declared "Go forth, Tencent — defile this world!" while another simply said "Welp, time for a tactical retreat." One was a dramatic farewell; the other, a very serious plan to uninstall. The entire comment section radiated a kind of dark humor — laughing through the pain of a reality you can't change.

As of now, Tencent has made no official response to these rumors. But regardless of what actually materializes, this leak has already achieved something remarkable — it united the entire Souls community in a collective狂欢 (carnival), fighting the thing they fear most with the one weapon they have: absurdity.