Quote Originally Posted by NrvnqsrKhaos View Post
Never gonna happen. Why would you willingly remove a large percentage of your player base, for any reason? You are effectively throwing away money for potential gain at a later date.

Not exactly a smart move, especially considering the negative press SE'd get, particularly in Japan.

Then again, SE released FFXIV in a beta state. So maybe they don't like smart moves.
When people say "drop ps2 support" it doesn't necessarily mean that SE has to make every ps2 suddenly unable to log in, just add new stuff on the platforms that can handle it and encourage some migration to newer platforms. The client is horribly outdated anyways. Look at older MMO's; many of them have updated client engines with servers that support both the new and old clients. For example: http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...www.google.com