Kill the PS2 limitations end of the Dark Ages Era

[rog]

They could.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Release PC / xbox / ps3 only expansions from this point on ;o

[Olor]

They could.

Then they should. I don't want to drop PS2 support unless it is the only way to get more continents into the game.

[Therin]

No one here actually knows the percentage of players who use the PS2 therefore no one can make a statement about whether or not this would be a financially reasonable choice.

[Atomic_Skull]

Even if they don't drop PS2 support there's a lot they could do to improve the PC version without too much difficulty. I made a thread about it here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...isticly-happen.

[RAIST]

The problem is, from a development standpoint, they've opted to keep as much as they can consistent across the platforms. The core assets of the game are essentially the same--PS2 DAT files and such. This way, the only thing they have to worry about being platform specific is more in dealing with the wrapper that runs the PS2 portion of it. IDK just where the line is drawn, but it will be a limiting factor on just how much they would be willing to tweak things for one platform further then they already have.

And thus, we have the good old patent answer of "PS2 limitations...can't do that for the PS2, so no one gets it".

[Kailea_Nagisa]

Transfer all their accounts into PC accounts come on people go buy new PCs and stop draggin us down

Imagine FFXI with FFXIV graphics it will become EPIC GAME with PS2 we cant have better graphics

It is not that simple

[CrystalWeapon]

I find it funny that when this arguement is brought up, it always comes up that we're not moving over due to the mass amount of japanese players on the PS2. If you look on the jp boards there has been a thread titled PS2 -> PS3 on the 1st page of their general discussion for quite a while now with a lot of people in favor of the jump over.

I think it's more about the amount of work it would take to swap to a higher quality version over alienating people.

[RAIST]

I find it funny that when this arguement is brought up, it always comes up that we're not moving over due to the mass amount of japanese players on the PS2. If you look on the jp boards there has been a thread titled PS2 -> PS3 on the 1st page of their general discussion for quite a while now with a lot of people in favor of the jump over.

I think it's more about the amount of work it would take to swap to a higher quality version over alienating people.

Exactly. It's not JUST that the PS2 is supported, it's that the game was designed for the PS2--PC support was more like a tweak where they integrated a wrapper to play the PS2 content on a PC. The 360 got more of a makeover, so it's a bit of a different animal--but it still has a lot of the legacy PS2 crap in it. They would have to FIRST get people off the PS2, and then remake the wrappers for PC and 360.

This infact is why we didn't get the full DirectX upgrade we were promised what... 2 years ago? Forget when they proposed it--but they found it entailed too much and wasn't worth the resources to complete it. More or less all we got was a little restructuring that allowed windowed mode and some shader/texture tweaking. That eventually allowed people with nextgen cards to force FSAA in hardware (but it bogs worse than the old supersampling trick)--so it was an improvement, but a half-assed one at that.

[Zumi]

Release PC / xbox / ps3 only expansions from this point on ;o

You do realize the PS3 just emulates the PS2 version so all the PS2 limitations are in place on that version. SE would actually have to recode the game to be an actual PS3 game for it to not have the PS2 limitations. They said many times they didn't want to do that because they thought it would cost them too much.