FFXI death, PS2 fault?

[Ilax]

I personally think the 360's ability for upgrade potential won't be strained for a long time, if at all within FFXI's lifetime. With PS2's memory being at 32MB compared to the xbox 360's 512MB? (I'm not sure on this number, please correct me if it's wrong) and the size of official, supported HDD options being larger, SE would have to make the game hog more memory and add a ton of new content to fill up the space.

That true, at least until New hardware come out that allow more complex 3d that xbox360 can't render, but yes technically it would still be awesome to get ride of the 32meg limitation, for xbox360 i agree it gonna take a while before it cause real issue.

[NightDagger]

Why i have feeling 84% would be up for it and 8%(ps2/ps3) against it and 8% (lol-xbox) unsure about this because they see same thing coming for them (eventually).

not a chance this game will surpass Xbox's limitations. The game hardly requires anything to run as of right now & making some adjustments would improve the game for sure but not make the xbox hold back any further upgrades. the game will be long dead & the xbox 720 will be out before that would even matter. I have 250GB HDD on my 36 & they do have 512MB Ram GDRAM I believe. Which is enough to run this games for anything they could think of doing.

[Twille]

I don't really think dropping PS2 support is an option for SE. Would it allow them to make some improvements to FFXI, of course, but in their eyes I'm quite certain the cost is too high and the gain is too low.

The up side: Improvements to FFXI would realistically only make existing customers a little happy, for a little while, without generating many new customers.
The down side: Lost revenue of customers that don't move over to either PC or 360.

Personally, I think the long-term benefits of dropping PS2 would pay off. SE would theoretically have more options for additional content, and therefore generate income from expansions and such, but who knows. I don't know how many of you have seen the Letter from the Developer they've been doing for FFXIV, but they're putting a considerable amount of effort into re-vamping the game to make it appeal to the masses. FFXI is never going to get that type of attention, it's simply too old.

Would I like to see PS2 support dropped for the possibility of a better FFXI? I would. Do I think it will actually happen? Sadly, no.

[Ilax]

The down side: Lost revenue of customers that don't move over to either PC or 360.

How about the Lost revenue of customers that find the game boring? I think is fair to say is already the case with all those content that SE dupe/recycle...

How about the Lost revenue of customers that choose WoW instead because graphic is more amazing?

Who say anyway those 8% would totally quit playing? If SE announce i need buy a new computer, trust me i would not quit, i would upgrade, i be piss off maybe, but i doubt i would rage quit because of it.

Also how many of these 8% don't have access to a computer?

[Twille]

How about the Lost revenue of customers that choose WoW instead because graphic is more amazing?

FFXI and WOW have both been around long enough that any significant change over has already occurred, or so I would think. Though it is a valid concern. I'd love to see the game improve, the question is, how much of their profit margin is SE willing to lose in order to do it?

Who say anyway those 8% would totally quit playing?

Nobody did. It's not outside the realm of possibility to imagine that some customers would move over to either PC or 360, and that other customers would simply quit. You can't expect 100% of the PS2 player base to return to the game by other means, it's highly unlikely, and would therefore mean a loss of revenue.[?QUOTE]

If SE announce i need buy a new computer, trust me i would not quit, i would upgrade, i be piss off maybe, but i doubt i would rage quit because of it.

How many other people would say this same thing? SE has no way of knowing. It's a gamble, one that I doubt SE wants to take right now.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE to see improvements to the game which PS2 is holding us back from, I just don't think SE is willing to do it.

[nobodyhere]

ps2 is like a hole in a boat eventually it gonna sink it so better try to stop being so sensitive about ps2 players most ps2 dont even read disc anymore.
im tired of playing a graphicless game remove ps2 offer ps2 player a insentive to switch to pc or xbox 360

[Ilax]

I mean look at WoW as i said in another post, they adding hardcore content while SE reducing the difficulty in FFXI, i am serious all this smell bad, smell like SE will sink if they continue in that direction, well they still have FF14 to get back on market, to me that is a real gamble because is really not a good start. To be honest sometime i wonder if Blizzard did not add more hardcore content in response of FFXI decreasing difficulty, all i know is they now have best graphic, casual content and now hardcore content as well, i doubt i ever end to play that game, but i wont be surprise if some do the switch, of course since FFXI decreased the difficulty some might switch from WoW to FFXI, but hey guess they feeling when they see limitation....

Also if you look at blizzard they are releasing Diablo III soon, that also might hurt SE, is really time SE do something.

[Mirage]

What does GDRAM even mean?

[Yarly]

What does GDRAM even mean?

I believe he meant GDDR which is just graphics ddr ram

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I believe he meant GDDR which is just graphics ddr ram

I thought he was swearing at the RAM. lol