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

[Leonlionheart]

Yeah the JP feedback is probably where SE'll truly decide whether to drop or not.

Still, the only way we're getting new zones is if we say goodbye to PS2!

Maybe then they'll finally integrate some windower features into the GUI!

[Miiyo]

It's dirt-cheap to upgrade from a PS2 to any other platform this game supports.

More than likely, if they're still playing on PS2, they're dirt-broke. You assume too much to think people can just easily upgrade. As a gaming company trying to make money you can't make assumptions like that. Killing off ps2 is killing off customers with no promise of profit by doing so.

Be if far from me to expect simpletons to have the vision to comprehend such an idea.

[Unctgtg]

If they gave me another expansion I would move to PS3 or PC. And no I am not dirt broke, I have a PS3, Xbox and 2 laptops and a PC. I just have always played on PS2, and the one time I played on PC I was hacked.

[Kari]

The way I see it:
1> Phase out PS2
2> People who play on PS2 come to rage on the forums
3> They have to have a computer to rage on the forums
4> Any computer made in the past forever can play this damn game
5> Give them free download

Win.

[FrankReynolds]

The way I see it:
1> Phase out PS2
2> People who play on PS2 come to rage on the forums
3> They have to have a computer to rage on the forums
4> Any computer made in the past forever can play this damn game
5> Give them free download

Win.

There is also the fact that they have to pay people to Program PS2 and test etc. I don't know what programmers make in japan, But I can imagine its a fair chunk of change. How many PS2 players does it take to pay off the annual salary of one programmer?

[Arcon]

More than likely, if they're still playing on PS2, they're dirt-broke. You assume too much to think people can just easily upgrade. As a gaming company trying to make money you can't make assumptions like that. Killing off ps2 is killing off customers with no promise of profit by doing so.

Be if far from me to expect simpletons to have the vision to comprehend such an idea.

The price increase from the payment system change has lost them a lot more customers than binning the PS2 ever would. And if people are too broke to afford a PC to play this, they're too broke to play FFXI, period. You can buy a PC that will play this for four month's worth of FFXI payments, so that excuse doesn't fly very far.

[FrankReynolds]

The price increase from the payment system change has lost them a lot more customers than binning the PS2 ever would. And if people are too broke to afford a PC to play this, they're too broke to play FFXI, period. You can buy a PC that will play this for four month's worth of FFXI payments, so that excuse doesn't fly very far.

I highly doubt that you can buy a computer for $45. However..... I also doubt that there is anyone out there that has been playing an MMORPG for like what is it? 5 years since PS2 production ended....and never bothered to pick up a PC or xbox 360.

EDIT: to be clear. I think people who still play on PS2 are just doing it because they are lazy, or they think that's how it should be played, or they are just used to it. I remember trying to figure out how to get my 360 control to work with the PC version for the first time.... made me wanna pull out my hair.

[Runespider]

If they gave me another expansion I would move to PS3 or PC. And no I am not dirt broke, I have a PS3, Xbox and 2 laptops and a PC. I just have always played on PS2, and the one time I played on PC I was hacked.

Vast majority play on PC and have never been hacked, infact if you are so useless with pcs to get hacked in the first place you would of alraedy have your account taken when you entered your password etc in the community site for your FFXIAH gear profile to show up.

Anyway, the things Square have done in the last year or two lost them more players than phasing out PS2. Salvage bans, secured CC, new payment options etc.

[Arcon]

I highly doubt that you can buy a computer for $45. However..... I also doubt that there is anyone out there that has been playing an MMORPG for like what is it? 5 years since PS2 production ended....and never bothered to pick up a PC or xbox 360.

You can, actually, although I play closer to $100 in four months. But yeah, what you said. If you're too broke to pick up a PC from early this millenium, then you can't play FFXI.

[Unctgtg]

Well the salvage ban was alright with me, got rid of the damn cheaters