Sooo SE actually wants to know the numbers of PS2 users eh?

[FrankReynolds]

Step 1. Make everyone take Innocent looking poll

Step 2. Don't even look at the data

Step 3. Announce that according to the poll, nobody plays on PS2 anymore

Step 4. Discontinue support for PS2 and offer free download of PC media to anyone who has purchased a copy of the PS2 version.

Step 5. Carefully police your community site and remove all angry posts by the few angry PS2 players that actually post

Step 6. Get a tattoo of the PS2 controllers on your wrists to remind you of the chains you broke free from.

[Meyi]

Step 6. Get a tattoo of the PS2 controllers on your wrists to remind you of the chains you broke free from.

Ohhh, so the PS2 was what was keeping Promathia chained? I see!

[Mirage]

They probably can check which client you are currently using. Whether or not they can check which clients you use is another story. I suppose some people play on multiple platforms and that is what they want information about hence being able to check multiple platforms.

I'm no programmer, but to me it seems very unlikely that the server wouldn't check which version of the client a specific user logs in with each time this happens. It might not log this data automatically all the time, but I would "guess" that it wouldn't be a large ordeal to make the servers log which clients are used for which accounts for a limited period of time. The data collected from this would easily show how many subscribers logged on with only PC clients, only PS2 clients, both (and the distribution between the two), or any other possible combination.

The only thing you'd really need a poll for is to find out how many people would be all right with changing their platform, and what would be necessary to do for them to do so (like a free game download, for example).

[Tohihroyu]

Too bad 99.9% of PC players RELY on windower & bots to play cause apparently vanilla ffxi is too hard QQ

Edit: And god forbid they can't play on a TEST server without it e_e

[Cursed]

Too bad 99.9% of PC players RELY on windower & bots to play cause apparently vanilla ffxi is too hard QQ

lolbots in 2011?
def a umad ps2'er

[AldielQuetz]

I approve of this, and throw the entire weight of all mankind living in the 21st century behind this saying:

GO BUY AN XBOX, KTHX.

I thought people in Japan prided themselves on having the newest and greatest technology. Live up to the hype!

[Cursed]

I approve of this, and throw the entire weight of all mankind living in the 21st century behind this saying:

GO BUY AN XBOX, KTHX.

I thought people in Japan prided themselves on having the newest and greatest technology. Live up to the hype!

yeah gonna go ahead and delete this before a moderator reads it and decides they dont like me



relax im just kidding

[Economizer]

GO BUY AN XBOX, KTHX.

Yes, but what if Xbox users are on the 20G hard drive instead of the larger 120G? Perhaps the platform could open up a bit more time, but we'd still get hit by space limits that aren't that much bigger eventually, unless SE was going to totally put its foot down about keeping FFXI growing.

Still, a plan over the next few years to depreciate PS2 support would be a major stride forward towards being able to depreciate any platform that stands in the way of FFXI.

[katoplepa]

let's hope this poll is in preparation of level 99
level 99 must come with a new real expansion, with new areas as well... without the ps2, this game could go ahead more and more... my hope is a scenario with Abyssea made to level up your jobs, and a completely new areas/world to explore designed for the levels99, something like to a large title on pol.com "you 99, now you ready for the new world"

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__...teWorldMap.jpg

[FrankReynolds]

Yes, but what if Xbox users are on the 20G hard drive instead of the larger 120G? Perhaps the platform could open up a bit more time, but we'd still get hit by space limits that aren't that much bigger eventually, unless SE was going to totally put its foot down about keeping FFXI growing.

Still, a plan over the next few years to depreciate PS2 support would be a major stride forward towards being able to depreciate any platform that stands in the way of FFXI.

lol My 20 gig 360 only has like 3 spare gigs atm. :P