FFXI death, PS2 fault?

[Apocalypse]

Like SE have mentioned before and will say that again.. will keep support PS2.. so if you guys dont like PS2"s limitation or feel that PS2 is holding you back.. then you can just quit playing and problem solved

[Ryuusuke]

They will support the ps2 but to what end. in this point in its life cycle I believe they will be forced to eventually or we will have to stop getting more updates for the game. SE has already taken the steps of completly cutting off making copies of any version of ffxi for the ps2. and it would be simple to just release on the ps3 and memory issues would be solved. than they would be able to do alot of things people have wanted and some would say needed for years. like being able to go over a 80 item inventory limit. or our current issues of not being able to add new auto translate. They have made so many leaps to evolve this game to a new level but the ps2 in my opinion is holding back the potential we could see out of final fantasy 11

[Tsukino_Kaji]

The bigger issue is that SE tried to dump FFXI for FFXIV and failed, now they're scrambling to try and figure out how to cover their assess.

[Crocker]

Here's a good reason to drop support for the PS2 sony dropped support to this game by making the PS2 without the Hard Drive.

Port the game to PS3 it wouldn't be hard since they have a 360 version and give a free or reasonably cheap Digital download and/or a free upgrade to the PC version via Steam.

Why continue to support a system that's out of date by many years? Only thing I can think of is some sort of contract stating as long as sony supports the PS2 in anyway (making new games and actual systems) SE must continue to support the PS2.
If that's true the contract should be void now since the new PS2 are unable to support FFXI.

Simple stuff like auto translate why not update it for PC/360 only (since there 3 separate downloads anyways) and any new words added in the auto translate PS2 users would see something like {PS2 Limitations} or {word not found} or {???}

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Here's a good reason to drop support for the PS2 sony dropped support to this game by making the PS2 without the Hard Drive.

It's actualy surprisingly easy to crack open the PS2 and pop in as big of a HDD you want.

[Runespider]

The main point is, do you really think dropping ps2 support and evolving the game will bring in new players. I dunno if it will, losing 6% (probably a lot more) of your playerbase for no reason makes no sense to anyone.

If they really pushed a ps3 version and then upgraded everything that would work but it depends if the they think the effort is worthwhile.

[tlaloc]

The main point is, do you really think dropping ps2 support and evolving the game will bring in new players. I dunno if it will, losing 6% (probably a lot more) of your playerbase for no reason makes no sense to anyone.

If they really pushed a ps3 version and then upgraded everything that would work but it depends if the they think the effort is worthwhile.

how about losing the other 94% whom might stay for another 9 levels (thats like what? 4-6 hrs in abbysea?) and then realize they have very little left to do because there is no new content or areas to explore

[Laraul]

Please take a look at this retrospective of FFXI...

Take a look at all the other games Square has produced (including FFXIV). And tell me, does the platform matter?

[katoplepa]

Unfortunately, I don't think that dropping PS2 will bring new players... the game is still old, by now over the 90% of active players are veterans, who are playing this game from 7/8 years and still love it, and keep playing it because they love it, so SE knows that they keep playing it anyway ... dropping PS2 is our dream because we think SE will add more regions, more stuffs to do and so on, but we don't know if SE will do it for real even if they drop PS2 support... they had lost millions in FFXIV and are trying to fix it, I hope but I don't think SE will introduce huge contents in the future, even without the PS2 limitations...

[Wade]

but we don't know if SE will do it for real even if they drop PS2 support...

I think this could be very true. Just because they drop PS2 support, doesn't necessarily mean, that they are all of a sudden going to release all kinds of new stuff. Plus, I'm not sure they would purposely want to dismiss paying customers.