Platform Survey Results

[MDenham]

I would hate to be your English/Language Arts teacher.

His grammar and spelling is due to PS2 limitations.

[Joslyn]

PS3's FFXI emulation is pretty terrible from what I've heard, anyway.

I wouldn't trust a PS3 to play PS2 games, if it were the backward-compatible models. I've heard of them having a ton of issues and I'm not gonna lose sweat over that..

I have FFXI installed on my ps3 and I have alot less issues with it then I did when playing on ps2, the only thing that happens and it few and far between is my controller will sometimes de-sync but its a quick fix.
Oh and my ps3 is fully backwards capable not the piece of crap 80gb with emulation.

[oliveira]

I have an CECHB-01 (20GB model, no WIFI, no Memory card slots) which I *tried* to play FFXI with.

While it was EXACTLY the same thing as playing on the PS2 I could not bear the ugly and broken sound emulation (CPU and GPU isn't emulated as it has them in) caused by poor sound chipset emulation.

There's still a few advantages on playing it on the PS3:

1- You can use any hard drive on the PS3 so you won't be out of the game if the hard drive fails.
2- You can use it on 1080p (it's pseudo 1080p as you will have the old graphics "upsampled" to 1080p. This helps making the PS2-ish FFXI graphics slightly less ugly on LCD TVs.

[Randwolf]

I was/am suspicious if this survey is a prelude to the end of PS2 support. Not only does the PS2 provide many limitations to what the programmers can do, it also creates extra costs and requires more time to program/debug by having it as a third supported platform. I started on PS2. But, my console is pretty much shot. I have XBox, but I got tired of the glitches. So, I now play exclusively on the PC.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

If they do release the data, I hope it also includes a break down by region.

[oliveira]

If they do release the data, I hope it also includes a break down by region.

That would be nice. But honestly, they probably consider this subject in particular "too polemical" to discuss it openly.
So I feel that it's highly unlikely they will release anything.

If they do, I see it happening quietly and swiftly, merged on the yearly playerbase census.

Oh and while I don't agree with your sig, I love the drawing in it !

http://lcibos.deviantart.com/gallery/31209#/d1umoay

[Solonuke]

Also, is it me or do most of ffxi community on the forums tend to like the PS3 better than the xbox360?

For me it seems like SE knows better how to deal with PS3 hardware than xbox 360 hardware. While they're considering a port to the PS Vita (mmorpg on a handheld wut), it seems like it opens a door to porting the game to the PS3. I have never owned an xbox 360, but all of my friends that have played the game on it prefers to play it on the PC instead. The most common complaint is that the client crashes in certain places.

[Arlan]

For me it seems like SE knows better how to deal with PS3 hardware than xbox 360 hardware. While they're considering a port to the PS Vita (mmorpg on a handheld wut), it seems like it opens a door to porting the game to the PS3. I have never owned an xbox 360, but all of my friends that have played the game on it prefers to play it on the PC instead. The most common complaint is that the client crashes in certain places.

You know, the PS Vita for ffxi would be revolutionary. I mean an MMORPG game in a Hand held system? Sounds Epic!
lol Gotta get me one of those.

[Arlan]

Yeah, PC is the best choice in any MMORPG in my opinion.
But I prefer to play on xbox360 than a Computer.

I'm not a PC kinda guy, I use mac and I don't plan to install any games for it since I use my mac for Work/School.
I'm not a tech guy so I only know the basics, thats about it.

[Crawlerbasher]

I mentioned it would be nice if there upgrade it from ps2 to ps3 because then there would be keeping to there ideals of creating a mmorpg that's cross region and platform.

As for been crap, that's only if there just used a ps2 version of there code to play on the ps3 rather than recode it all for the ps3.

I also play this on the pc, its is better, but would be nice to have this on the ps3 as well.

As for ps2 emulation on the ps3, not had a problem with it at all.
But mine is a hybrid hardware/software emulation on my ps3.