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

[TetsujinX]

lol If I go shout with my friends in Port Jeuno (in case your wondering, nobody wants to hear your BS complaints in shouts in WG) about why you should move from PS2, will that make it a fact? Sounds to me like your a flake who blames his force D/C on his system.

Right... so next you are about to tell me what I wore to bed last night? Since you are obviously sitting in my living room watching everything I do. Come off it, man. You have some kind of personal grudge against Sony for whatever reason. Were it not for the constant freezing I would play on 360. Wait... actually I wouldn't. The game just runs better on ps2 than it does 360. And before you jump in with all your "cheap used PC" arguments, the amount of space on said PC makes it impossible for me to fit all the other programs needed for it to serve any practical purposes, meaning I would be buying a PC specifically to play this game. Who in their right mind does that? Wait I guess you do...

Bottom line, just because your experiences differ from mine, does not make them false. I would invite you over to watch them in action and giv eyou numbers to talk to the others, but you'd just tell me I force D/C'ed whileI was in the middle of owning whatever NM I decided to fight. So nevermind. I mean that and the fact that your are probably standing over my shoulder watching me type this

[FrankReynolds]

Let's do some quick math. lets assume for the purpose of shits and giggles that SE has 1 programmer, and 1 tester who do all the PS2 stuff. Lets assume they are grossly underpaid and make $30,000 a year each. How many people who are unable or unwilling to transfer their accounts do we need just to support those two employees and still break even?

[TetsujinX]

Actually now that I think about it, this thread is pointless. With the account transfer, POL and the POL viewer no longer serve a purpose. Once they drop the POL viewer, and they will, Both PS2 and 360 are out the window, as the both require the viewer to access the game.

[Joslyn]

They wont drop the POL viewer but just strip it down.

[Volkai]

Actually now that I think about it, this thread is pointless. With the account transfer, POL and the POL viewer no longer serve a purpose. Once they drop the POL viewer, and they will, Both PS2 and 360 are out the window, as the both require the viewer to access the game.

IIRC, it's already been stated that POL is NOT going to be dropped because it is still necessary for logging into FFXI.

[Volkai]

Let's do some quick math. lets assume for the purpose of shits and giggles that SE has 1 programmer, and 1 tester who do all the PS2 stuff. Lets assume they are grossly underpaid and make $30,000 a year each. How many people who are unable or unwilling to transfer their accounts do we need just to support those two employees and still break even?

What makes you think that FFXI programmers are assigned to develop on a single platform?

[Leonlionheart]

Let's do some quick math. lets assume for the purpose of shits and giggles that SE has 1 programmer, and 1 tester who do all the PS2 stuff. Lets assume they are grossly underpaid and make $30,000 a year each. How many people who are unable or unwilling to transfer their accounts do we need just to support those two employees and still break even?

387

Even though some people can read this, it makes me feel better that I can't.

[Joslyn]

387

Even though some people can read this, it makes me feel better that I can't.

And that was all without a single drop of Rum

[Economizer]

Here is an example: We run out of things that absolutely have to be on the PS2 version also, spells. gear, and abilities to be able to add, due to a PS2 limitation that SE cannot program around (hardware). Since we cannot add more things due to the PS2 version, the game cannot expand. Since the game cannot expand, the game dies.

[Volkai]

Here is an example: We run out of things that absolutely have to be on the PS2 version also, spells. gear, and abilities to be able to add, due to a PS2 limitation that SE cannot program around (hardware). Since we cannot add more things due to the PS2 version, the game cannot expand. Since the game cannot expand, the game dies.

Solution: Add a new expansion. PS2 users cannot get it. Expansion adds areas that PS2 users cannot access, but X360/PC can. PS2 users still have access to everything that's already out.

BAM! The game continues to grow without locking PS2 users out of the game entirely. A solution is found.