Why PlayStation 2

[Joslyn]

Don't mistake a business decision based on cost : profit for laziness. Just because you want something, doesn't mean it's a profitable/good idea to do.

Ok then if this game was not profitable then why is it still going after 10 years when almost all other MMO's have died off after 3-4 years(and im not talking about WoW since that has a cult like following). Look yes its about profit but some games don't need to be rereleased to let those that played it yesteryear play it again, If that were the case I want Valve to re-release HAlf Life with the HL2 engine but they wont even though it would sell faster then most other fps's.

[Arcon]

Ok then if this game was not profitable then why is it still going after 10 years [..]

He didn't say FFXI wasn't profitable, he said making a PS3 port wouldn't be. Porting games like MGS to PS3 is good profit, because almost every MGS fan will buy it. But only very few FFXI players would buy a PS3 port, namely only a subset of the already small NA PS3 playerbase. And considering that if they don't make a PS3 port, many PS2 people would still be playing on different platforms, it's even less than that.