Final Fantasy XI PS3 Version

[Mirage]

You that are purposely ignoring the fact that I am saying people will trojan the console and hack the game regardless of it using SEN or not to be played.

How exactly is the risk of this happening any greater than it is with the PC client of the game? You don't need to circumvent any security measures in the operating system or hardware of your PC to do the same to the FF14 client.

You've already got full access to it, and any FF14 client hacking could be done with a piece of software alone, no need to change firmware or anything like you'd need to on a PS3. How exactly is the PS3 client for FF14 at a greater risk of getting hacked than the PC version of the client?

There's no reason why the risk of this happening on the PS3 would stop them from releasing it for the PS3, when the same risk exists for the PC client, yet they are definitely making it for that platform.

Now if you know something that I don't know about this that would make me wrong, you should bring that up, because I'll admit to being wrong if that was the case. So far, however, there's nothing of what you've written that would indicate that the PS3 client is at a great risk of getting hacked compared to the PC client, and nothing that would make it likely for SE to not release a PS3 client.

[oliveira]

The problem on closed platforms such as the PS3 is that the game companies rely on the security provided by the system itself. On Windows even the data files are somehow encrypted, memory is isolated, processes are concealed or at best the game can complain about a debugger being loaded on memory while the game is run. On a console that kind of protection isn't available as it's not needed (a legitimate console will only accept signed code).

PS3 had all of it's older private signing keys made publicly available, which ruins the security for the platform. SONY responded by whitelisting things that were signed with the compromised keys, making it impossible to use the leaked keys to sign new stuff that would be accepted by the PS3 OS.

Now that the last bastion of security on the PS3 OS fell apart, hackers could put malicious code (cheat engine) on the OS kernel and take control of the game process.

The argument is:

What is the point of going through the hassle of supporting the PS3 now that it will risk the product (game) of more hacking, the PS3 will be scrapped soon enough (It will be dead in two years from now since it has been completely hacked) as it became the next PSP and SONY already has a platform almost ready to replace it ?

What you think ?

[Ryanx]

PS3 version of the game would be nice

[Mirage]

The problem on closed platforms such as the PS3 is that the game companies rely on the security provided by the system itself. On Windows even the data files are somehow encrypted, memory is isolated, processes are concealed or at best the game can complain about a debugger being loaded on memory while the game is run. On a console that kind of protection isn't available as it's not needed (a legitimate console will only accept signed code).

PS3 had all of it's older private signing keys made publicly available, which ruins the security for the platform. SONY responded by whitelisting things that were signed with the compromised keys, making it impossible to use the leaked keys to sign new stuff that would be accepted by the PS3 OS.

Now that the last bastion of security on the PS3 OS fell apart, hackers could put malicious code (cheat engine) on the OS kernel and take control of the game process.

The argument is:

What is the point of going through the hassle of supporting the PS3 now that it will risk the product (game) of more hacking, the PS3 will be scrapped soon enough (It will be dead in two years from now since it has been completely hacked) as it became the next PSP and SONY already has a platform almost ready to replace it ?

What you think ?

I think they'll release it as planned.

You say the sort of protection the PC version gets isn't available on PS3 because it has never been needed before. Now that it is needed, isn't is possible that they will implement the same security measures on the PS3 version as they did on the PC version.

I also think that if the PS3 is dead within two years, it's more because it's already an 8 year old console at that point, and therefore near the end of its life cycle and ready to be replaced regardless of the security situation.

[Laraul]

What is the point of going through the hassle of supporting the PS3 now that it will risk the product (game) of more hacking, the PS3 will be scrapped soon enough (It will be dead in two years from now since it has been completely hacked) as it became the next PSP and SONY already has a platform almost ready to replace it ?What you think ?

Security isn't an issue with the PS3. Sure you can hack it. You can hack anything. But if you are going to hack something, hack the platform that's the most open (i.e. Windows). I don't understand what you are saying at all.

[Llama]

A while back SE, stated they liked the idea off FFXI running on the PSP Vita. Seeing how Sony is losing money on VITA's as is, I doubt we'll ever see PS3 or PSPV version. Too bad, I'd love to play FFXI on a handheld.

[JouriStarz]

When Treasures was getting ready to come out (also XI on the Xbox) there was an interview where someone asked if XI would ever be released on the Wii and PS3. I can't remember the excuse for the Wii but they said for the PS3 that porting the PS2 version to PS3 would have been too difficult and they would basically have to start from scratch and if they were to ever do that they would want it to be a new game which is how we ended up with XIV instead.

[Luso]

For the Wii, it was because of the Friend Codes system that they weren't able to bring XI to it. A USB hard drive would've been the solution for XI's install.

[Luvbunny]

They will rebuilt and give us FFXI A Realm Reborn Again if FF14 is fail spectacularly again. They probably just use existing FF14 engine and "reappropriate" it for FF11. So if you want FF11 for the whatever console system being launched next, you know what to do, keep supporting the game, and just don't bother with FF14.

[Xikeroth]

THE RAPTURE IS COMING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

We have been hearing this <blank> for years. Enough already with the prophecies.
Someone might actually take them seriously, look at the people who prepared for the Mayan 2012 garbage.

The games population has been dropping, not increasing so yes the game will eventually die. That is a fact.

The Devs are not putting out bad content.

Compared to every other MMO on the planet? Yes, they are. All they are doing is re-releasing the old content with old fights we already fought and in some cases, throwing the garbage stagger system in (which makes it EASIER) to try to force people to bring every job. The content in this game is nothing compared to what it used to be.

This game was far superior at level 75 cap than it is now. FFXI also had a much larger population back then. If the game's content was getting better the population wouldn't be going down as frequently as it is and would be quite steady.

You can't use the excuse "The game is 10 years old" WoW is 8 years old, and its only going down in population due to the multiple clones it has.

A lot of the good ideas take a lot of time reworking the spaghetti code that is FFXI. They have to pick and choose what merits an immense time sink and what does not as well as factoring in their own plans.

As for the rest of the ideas from the player base. Have you ever put yourself in their position? They are not Santa Clause Ltd. and they have wishes being thrown at them everyday. On top of that you have the ideas that are subjective that the community splits down the line about and argue over.

But, yes there are just some things they will not listen to. That is not to say it is a good thing or bad thing though.

That right there is the fault of Tanaka. They have to rebuild FFXIV from the ground up because he screwed the games code up that badly.

Tanaka should have NEVER been in charge of a MMO. He not once, ever listened to what the community asked for or suggested. It took him over 5 years to put moogles in Selbina, you can not tell me that is hard to do when they are just exact copies of the ones in Kazham. I can tell you for a fact it isn't hard to do, at all. A successful MMO developer takes suggestions into serious consideration but the FFXI development team thinks everything they do is perfect and that they can't go wrong.

They started going terribly wrong when abyssea was launched. It got even worse when voidwatch came out. So much to the point a lot of people actually liked the broken game, FFXIV MORE than FFXI.

The end of the story is, if they don't listen to their players the game will die sooner then it could if they start listening. (For example everyone knows the new RDM ability coming out is total trash and SE is once again ignoring it).

We live in a world where people do not even want to turn their lights on anymore. What do you expect?

This game is not hard to learn and play. Personally I find the community to be kind and giving to those who actually put in the effort. If you are someone who just wants to shout a question in PJ you can easily look up (the most frequent scenario) then no the community will not treat you nicely. If you shout for help for hours with something you can easily do by yourself then once again the community will not be that nice to you.

Wrong again. My entire time playing this game I have helped people out regardless of if I would get anything out of it. I went out of my way to help those that needed it. What happened when I needed help, very few replied. Very few people even bother helping people when there is nothing in it for them. Maybe you paid them? Then again that would mean they are getting something out of it.

Regardless of how much effort someone puts in people are only nice to you and help you for the most part when they get something out of it. I'd say for every 10 people, maybe 1-2 of them are willing to help out and the rest couldn't care less about others.

We have a lot of what I have started dubbing Wall-E players out there. Riding in their chairs, being served, not having to do a thing, and expecting things to be done for them.

Funny, those are the exact same people who are making it in this game due to the lack of needing to know anything.

They do not:
*Put in research into this elaborate game.

1) New players generally want to try the game out, not study for hours before hand, this isn't school or a job, people play these games to get away from those. So your first point is flawed beyond belief and only proves your arrogance and self-centered attitude.

*Put any effort into becoming a team player (or even any real effort into their own characters development in all honesty).

This game stopped having a high requirement on this when the level cap was raised to 80. This is FFXI for dummies compared to the good old days. I wonder if you even finished CoP before they removed the level restrictions. THAT took teamwork. If you didn't then you have no right talking about being a "team player".

*Get upset when they want more out of the game than they can from their lack of time to play.

People want to be able to get the most out of their game time, not sit there in Jeuno begging for help from those that won't give it or waiting for a shout for the content they need.

*Get upset when others do not want to play with them because (in addition to bullet one and two) they have developed their own opinions bereft of any actual data. Then get an attitude on top of that.

From what I see, you're off in bullet one and two yourself. Irrationally thinking to serve your own views and ideas opposed to REAL data composed from people who have quit this game after recent attempts, one of the biggest complaints is that the community isn't very friendly, Far less friendly then in other MMOs. Which proves your entire statement incorrect and also proves you yourself do not follow data either.

*Go complain that because of failing to do bullet one and two that things should change to conform to their world.

If people hate a game or stop having fun, they quit. If people love a game or want it to be improved when they see something wrong they give an opinion or "complain" as you call it.

Its how MMORPGs work in the world today, its not the dev team is perfect, they aren't. All the successful MMOs in the world take player feedback and seriously look at it. The way FFXI's dev team handles things makes people feel like everything they say gets thrown in the trash which generates frustration.

*When people give them <blank> about it because of their ranting and raving they get even more attitude about the community (you know as I write this a player who starts with an 'R' and rhymes with Sh-moe-Sh-mina comes to night) and eventually place the blame on the community.

The community is to blame for quite a few things. The perception of FFXI from other MMO players is we're all stuck-up, serious, boring drones who follow this game because of the company that owns it and its title. They think we accept every decision the dev team makes without even debating against it.

This opinion isn't formed from people who haven't played the game mind you, its from past players that quit due to the refusal from the dev team to listen to the community.

The other problem is they think we're all too self-centered to help someone out when they need it. There is nothing wrong with helping someone, there IS something wrong when you turn a blind eye to those in need.

When a group of people treat you badly, do you look up to them? I bet you don't. Therefore when the community acts how it does to a group of people I'd say they have reason enough to look to the community with resentment. Its simple human emotion, you should try it sometime.

*Decide they are sick of not having things the way they want, place some blame, complain, and quit.

Most people quit because the development team has been going nowhere and has no path for this game.

Lets face it, Abyssea was released and the level cap increase was announced for around the same time as FFXIV's launch. They were both there because SE didn't want to lose FFXI's subscribers to FFXIV(in the case it worked out which it didn't)

And now FFXIV is being remade and relaunched, looking to be a far superior game to FFXI so far from what I have seen. When they announced "FFXIV: "A Realm Reborn" They announced the new FFXI expansion.

I guess you didn't pick up on this pattern, did you? Lets face it all the current content was only made in attempts to keep mindless gear farmers playing so they could continue to get our subscription fee.

In the past 2 years in terms of development and content, the REAL Final Fantasy fans have gotten cast aside so they could cater to gear farmers. This game has little to no depth to it anymore and less then 75% the skill that you needed when 75 was the cap. No new storyline to speak of(Nothing worthy of being called a final fantasy) which is what makes a final fantasy what it is. What little was given to us could be easily outdone by anything before. Even some FPS games have a better storyline then everything FFXI has past A crystalline prophecy.

You sir are what is wrong with the Final Fantasy community as a whole.