FFXI death, PS2 fault?

[Kennocha]

Eve online throughout its life cycle has dropped support for older and older hardware raising the minimum required to play without much negativity. The problem is announcing the change ahead of time, then slowly phasing it in.

Saying it can't be done, is not entirely truthful.

[Draylo]

Please remove ps2 support.. this game will thrive from that

[Dreimar]

@Emissary
"The PS2 version was released well after the PC version "
I am sure you actually meant the reverse. The PC version was always planned and was released only 6 months after the PS2 version. People knew there would be a PC release before the game even came out. The only reason the numbers of PS2 players in Japan is relatively high is simply because it was released on the PS2 first. In NA, it was released on the PC first with a 5 month delay for the PS2 version. (Due to Sony pushing back the HDD release date)

Your technical knowledge is limited at best and full of hyperbole. Changing the registry settings would take 5 minutes at most. It doesn't matter what graphics card manufacturer you are using as long as it isn't older than a PS2. And the graphics pipeline is not the issue when it comes to slow down. (Sole exception being the Conflux crystals)

What would change. The real issue here isn't graphics, but system memory. The PS2 is sporting only 32M of RAM. Your damn phone has more memory than this. Everything you have immediate access to needs to be loaded into RAM. This means ever job, ability, spell, inventory, equipment, global model, auto-translate definitions, etc all need to be existing simultaneously. The wizards at SE have been doing a marvelous job finding ways to fit more and more into this memory chunk. They are mostly out now. If they increased the minimum memory footprint then they would be able to add more areas, jobs, etc. This would of course mean they have to drop PS2 support in order to do the increase.

I agree.
We just need to know how many PS2 active accounts chain us to the past :\
Anyone know if there a way to know Official percentage of accounts repartition ?
or SE just wont let anyone know ?

[bungiefan]

That's a hard thing to count anyway, since any account can log in on any platform. I switch between JP PS2, NA PS2, and NA PC with my JP account from PS2 launch. What sort of user would I be counted as? I prefer PS2, and use it most of the time for stability, and run it on a second monitor next to my computer so I can have a wiki up or something.

[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 {???}

[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.

[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.