Why PlayStation 2

[Gilraen]

Talk of upgrading FFXI isn't new and has been met with the argument of being too costly to be feasible. This is why the game still looks the way it does. The GUI update isn't really an overhaul, just a touch-up with new code introduced from XIV (ironic, that). Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to inquire of they will make the Japanese PS2 disk region-free.

[bungiefanNA]

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to inquire of they will make the Japanese PS2 disk region-free.

Not possible. PS2 doesn't have a designation for a disc to be region free. It must have a region code on it, and it must match the console's region code for it to boot the disc. Xbox 360 allows multiple region codes on the same disc, and has a region free designation. PS3 simply doesn't bother with region lock on PS3 software, as long as it has a code, but it enforces PS1 and PS2 region locks on physical discs.

[Ragmar]

I keep seeing people say no NA stores sell PS2 games anymore ... Walmart does and its one of the biggest nationwide retailers so um yeah. I play on both PC and PS2 and IF SE were actually going to give the game an overhaul I would support dropping PS2 support but fact is they aren't. You are flat dreaming if you think FFXI is getting the FFXIV 2.0 treatment lol.

[Llana_Virren]

I keep seeing people say no NA stores sell PS2 games anymore ... Walmart does and its one of the biggest nationwide retailers so um yeah. I play on both PC and PS2 and IF SE were actually going to give the game an overhaul I would support dropping PS2 support but fact is they aren't. You are flat dreaming if you think FFXI is getting the FFXIV 2.0 treatment lol.

People are saying that you will have a hard time finding a store that is selling new releases for PS2.

[Zerich]

I keep seeing people say no NA stores sell PS2 games anymore ... Walmart does and its one of the biggest nationwide retailers so um yeah. I play on both PC and PS2 and IF SE were actually going to give the game an overhaul I would support dropping PS2 support but fact is they aren't. You are flat dreaming if you think FFXI is getting the FFXIV 2.0 treatment lol.

in the bargain bin

[Insaniac]

So this guy is raging because he tried to play FFXI on a net book...

[Insaniac]

Obviously they can't for some reason or they would do it. I promise they would gladly take money from EN PS2 players if it made financial sense.

[Camiie]

I would imagine there's simply no production of NA-region PS2 discs anymore. If so, that's probably why.

[Insaniac]

It's just a cost thing somewhere along the line. There's some process that makes it not cost effective and we will likely never have any clue what it is unless they tell us. People just need to accept that dropping EN PS2 from the expansion is part of what they needed to do to make the it happen at all. If you can't be bothered to spend 1 minimum wage paycheck so the vast majority of the EN community who upgraded 6 years ago can enjoy a full expansion then you're a jerk or really really really poor.

[Suteru]

1) They haven't run a PS2 disc in ages and it is probably a nightmare to get them into production in the US. EU never had a PS2 version.

2) The reason you can't see the "sky grid" in the PS2 version is mostly because the graphics are too low-resolution. The PS2's graphics are just too blurry a mess.