So, how about some additions to the Dev team?

[Sp1cyryan]

Bump for good measure. Figured it was about time to do it.

[bungiefanNA]

One of the payment options for Crysta is UltimatePay, which has prepaid cards available. SE doesn't need to do prepaid cards because of that. They didn't before the new billing system either, with VISA and MasterCard having prepaid cards.

[FrankReynolds]

One of the payment options for Crysta is UltimatePay, which has prepaid cards available. SE doesn't need to do prepaid cards because of that. They didn't before the new billing system either, with VISA and MasterCard having prepaid cards.

This could be said of every gift certificate for every business on the planet, and yet they continue to sell.

[Feynman]

I've seen different statements from SE at times (I'm not looking them up right now because I'm at work and shouldn't be on here at all really...) that the PS2 HDD was filled up at one point though that was mainly due to the method used for updates. PS2 users had to do a clean install of the game and SE changed the way that updates are done on the PS2. But I'm not really in the know on how much free space is on the HDD now and if it could handle new content or not. Others on here have said the SE says PS2 isn't holding new content back and I have no reason to not believe them.

I've also seen a statement that no new content will use Abyssea or the proc-ing system, largely because they consider Abyssea a "mistake" that doesn't fit in with any of the other game content. So I don't think we'll see anything else on that side of things.

As much as I think SE uses "balance" as an excuse as much as a real reason I do think they should try and keep things balanced. A lot of people that I know that play or have played other MMOs complain about things not being balanced anymore and shortly thereafter quit the game. But yeah, SE has an interesting sense of balance at times I agree.

[bungiefanNA]

The PS2 HDD wasn't filled up, the 8 GB partition on the 40 GB drive was filled up. They have since expanded the partition size for the game, and changed how the PS2 processes updates. When Heroes of Abyssea came out, the actual data files for the PS2 version were just over 4 GB, but the system wasn't deleting all the old temporary files from patches. Now the partition has 10 GB of space allocated to it, and they haven't added much in the way of new files.

[Feynman]

The PS2 HDD wasn't filled up, the 8 GB partition on the 40 GB drive was filled up. They have since expanded the partition size for the game, and changed how the PS2 processes updates. When Heroes of Abyssea came out, the actual data files for the PS2 version were just over 4 GB, but the system wasn't deleting all the old temporary files from patches. Now the partition has 10 GB of space allocated to it, and they haven't added much in the way of new files.

Thanks for the clarification but it leaves me with a question. The PS2 HDD never really was used for anything else at all (as far as I recall). It was marketed and sold with FFXI and never lived up to it's expected uses. So, why not make the full drive available for the game?

[Atomic_Skull]

Thanks for the clarification but it leaves me with a question. The PS2 HDD never really was used for anything else at all (as far as I recall). It was marketed and sold with FFXI and never lived up to it's expected uses. So, why not make the full drive available for the game?

Sony isn't going to have someone write a new firmware update for a dead system when there's nothing in it for Sony.

[Zumi]

Maybe they are happy with the subscriber numbers as they are now. I logged on FFXI on a Saturday night I saw 3500 playing. I was like wow a lot of people still play FFXI and don't mind doing endless abyssea which is still packed.

In comparison FFXIV has around 250 during peak time.

If people are still playing with the game having little new content and lackluster updates like event items being added to porter mogs then it give SE little incentive to hire more people or put more people on FFXI. For whatever reason FFXI seems to have a really loyal customer base which is shown with 3000+ people on server during peak times.

[Camiie]

If people are still playing with the game having little new content and lackluster updates like event items being added to porter mogs then it give SE little incentive to hire more people or put more people on FFXI. For whatever reason FFXI seems to have a really loyal customer base which is shown with 3000+ people on server during peak times.

Sounds like we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. If we stay loyal they assume we're happy and maintain the status quo. If we leave en masse they figure it's time to pull the plug.

[Zumi]

The 10gb partition is hard coded on the PS2 so no matter what SE wants to do they will reach that limit eventually. If they want to go past that would have to drop PS2 support.