So, how about some additions to the Dev team?

[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.

[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]

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.

[FrankReynolds]

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.

I'm pretty sure that they announced that Sony was letting them expand the partition a few months back. Maybe someone who is better with this wonky search function could look that up.