Why PlayStation 2

[seya]

I play the ps2 version in a ps3 , back in the day i just remember buying a ps3 because Se was saying they would release it on a ps3 , like i say before i own a pc version as well i hate it , now do i have to buy xbox to play or get a better pc because Se screw us again ...lol i think not

[Kaisha]

OP just trying to justify that PS2 is better because of the nature of 480i and analog signal actually making the image quality look worse, which in his eyes looks 'better' since they hide faults/shortcuts/discrepencies used to make it run on the PS2.

The only 'edge' PS2 has against PC is faster model loading, and I'm still baffled as to why the devs never took the loading delay off of the PC release this many years later.

Pretty damn sure PS2 has the camera jitter issue also, which the PC has as well. At any rate, its a known thing that the 360 port was shoddily written. Even running through town it couldn't maintain 30fps. PS2 on the other hand cheats by using super low-resolution shadow rendering among other little cheats in its small 512x512 framebuffer.

At any rate, good luck reading player/enemy names beyond 5 feet on PS2, or not crashing randomly when cutscenes or certain NPC interactions occur.

[Reiterpallasch]

I play the ps2 version in a ps3 , back in the day i just remember buying a ps3 because Se was saying they would release it on a ps3 , like i say before i own a pc version as well i hate it , now do i have to buy xbox to play or get a better pc because Se screw us again ...lol i think not

What is it in particular that you hate about the PC version? Because with some minor tweaks, the game will look and play much better than on a console. And no, you don't need anything 3rd party related to do so.

[seya]

i play on a mini gateway laptop what i hate about it everything , i play ps2 version since release , yeah i probally can make it look better but why do i have to buy another system to play ffxi ? if i already have 2 ( 3 if u count my old ps2 wich i dont use it ) i rather stop playing ffxi and start playing skyrim ( name might be wrong ) i know is not a online game but has enough content to not care about online games

[Byrth]

The menu-expanding animation also works on PS2 and doesn't appear to work on any other platform I've ever used. On other platforms, the menu expands out to a larger size than it should be, but on the PS2 it expands out to the right size. This could be a byproduct of mucking around with the resolution settings, or it might not. I don't think I've ever had it work properly.

[seya]

But u people missing the whole point here , stop defending SE , i play on whatever i like is not anyone's problem , i Know ps2 is an old system but i play on a ps3 ,Se is at fault here for never releasing on a ps3 and now they give Jp the new expansion on ps2 version and not us and they do have choices ... PSN is one of them since probally 75% of the people that uses ps2 version is on ps3 other one is pol download ... i would understand if they didnt support all the ps2 users but why only the Jp .. we are paying costumers as well

[Daniel_Hatcher]

But u people missing the whole point here , stop defending SE , i play on whatever i like is not anyone's problem , i Know ps2 is an old system but i play on a ps3 ,Se is at fault here for never releasing on a ps3 and now they give Jp the new expansion on ps2 version and not us and they do have choices ... PSN is one of them since probally 75% of the people that uses ps2 version is on ps3 other one is pol download ... i would understand if they didnt support all the ps2 users but why only the Jp .. we are paying costumers as well

Quite clearly they did the survey to see the numbers, a large number of Japanese people play on PS2/PS3, not enough people in NA or EU do to warrant the cost of making it.

You forget SE pay to make the disks, games and they'd pay to put it on PSN, if the profit doesn't warrant the cost no company would be dumb enough to waste money on it.

PS. It's an online game not a single-player game, if something halts expansion than it IS other peoples problem.

[seya]

even if they wanted to make Sonny dont do ps2 cds on Usa anymore , thats why i say there is others choices for Na players , btw EU never got ps2

[Daniel_Hatcher]

even if they wanted to make Sonny dont do ps2 cds on Usa anymore , thats why i say there is others choices for Na players , btw EU never got ps2

Yes, PSN which still costs them money to add it on, for something that wont benefit them cost wise.

Like I said, the survey they did previously was clearly to check who plays on PS2/PS3 and who doesn't, and the fact there is no PS2/PS3 version is clear enough proof that not enough people play it in NA.

As for the EU remark, I'm aware, but SE seems to brand EU and NA both as the same.

You need to remember FFXI is 10 years old, they will put as little money into it as possible, and milk it for what it is worth. the EP will probably be the last we ever see for FFXI and I wouldn't be surprised if it's tiny compared to the other EPs.

[Reiterpallasch]

i play on a mini gateway laptop what i hate about it everything

Ok thank you for clearing that up. Enjoy not playing the expansion because you're too stubborn to setup FFXI to play on a computer.