[Dev] PS2 User Poll

[Cljader1]

Obviously, you dind't get the point.

SE has made it clear they have no desire to port the decade old FFXI to the PS3. They want FFXIV to be the MMO title built specifically for that platform. They are NOT going to invest in a re-write for FFXI for the PS3. They didn't even do that for the XB360--at it's core, it's the same game across all three platforms, only different versions of the wrapper (ie, POL client) specific to the platform.

To make FFXI run on the PS3, currently all that is needed is compliant emulation--so, technically it can already run on the PS3 and SE does not feel it is worthy of a rewrite for a whole new shell to run it on the PS3, as there is already a means to do it.

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And as Frank said...PC gaming or console gaming....the experience is more or less the same when it comes to FFXI, with the exception of better quality graphics (and soon, more up to date UI features). I have played FFXI on my PC with a PS2 controller since day one. There are even PC controllers that emulate PS2 (Logitech, MadCats, several companies have them).

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And again.. you keep coming back to your PC not being built for gaming. Just what exactly about your PC is holding you back from being able to play FFXI? You keep saying that, yet you have yet to state this specifically. It doesn't take a gaming rig to run FFXI. Intel Graphics have been able to run FFXI for almost 8 years now. It can run on netbook ffs....most any an APU system from the past 4 years or so can run it. My IBM laptop (an office machine, mind you, built solely to demo mock websites and apps on it) would be able to run it if I only had a better ATI card in it. If I still had access to the office's docking station, I could drop in one of my old PCI cards and run the game--it meets all the specs except for proper hardware TNL support.

FFXI will run on a PENTIUM III System. We are talking about technology that was in the mainstream BEFORE FFXI was released for PC (P3-800 MHz were released in 1999). So, again....just what is it about your system that prevents it from being capable of running FFXI?

I already told you games don't play well on my comp, incredible lags, freezes, slow frame transitions; it nice that you get your games to play with all those factors involved. But unlike you I didn't buy my cpu for gaming, I do not like pc gaming, having a controller that emulate ps2 is nice and I do know about them, I much rather have an option to play ffxi on ps3 or have SE support new content on ps2 in NA. Its really stupid to support new content for ps2 in Japan and not support new content for ps2 in NA, for God sakes ps2 is a NA system so how is it only getting support for new content in Japan??

[FrankReynolds]

I already told you games don't play well on my comp, incredible lags, freezes, slow frame transitions; it nice that you get your games to play with all those factors involved. But unlike you I didn't my cpu for gaming, I do not like pc gaming, having a controller that emulate ps2 is nice and I do know about them, I much rather have an option to play ffxi on ps3 or have SE support new content on ps2 in NA. Its really stupid to support new content for ps2 in Japan and not support new content for ps2 in NA, for God sakes ps2 is a NA system so how is it only getting support for new content in Japan??

Say what???

[Reiterpallasch]

I already told you games don't play well on my comp, incredible lags, freezes, slow frame transitions; it nice that you get your games to play with all those factors involved. But unlike you I didn't my cpu for gaming, I do not like pc gaming, having a controller that emulate ps2 is nice and I do know about them, I much rather have an option to play ffxi on ps3 or have SE support new content on ps2 in NA.

And we keep asking wtf you're using that can't handle a 10 year old game, yet you still have no response other than "it can't play it". So again, how bout those PC specs to back up your claims that you can't run it on the PC?

Its really stupid to support new content for ps2 in Japan and not support new content for ps2 in NA, for God sakes ps2 is a NA system so how is it only getting support for new content in Japan??

No it's not.

[Cljader1]

And we keep asking wtf you're using that can't handle a 10 year old game, yet you still have no response other than "it can't play it". So again, how bout those PC specs to back up your claims that you can't run it on the PC?

It really doesn't even matter what I'm using, because pc gaming is not enjoyable to me. I have a toshiba laptop with a AMD Sempron processor, had it for about 2 years and it has gotten considerably slower probably due to past programming problems and infections. However, I brought a low power cpu for browsing and that is only what I use it for.

[Demon6324236]

It really doesn't even matter what I'm using, because pc gaming is not enjoyable to me. I have a toshiba laptop with a AMD Sempron processor, had it for about 2 years and it has gotten considerably slower probably due to past programming problems and infections. However, I brought a low power cpu for browsing and that is only what I use it for.

There are methods to display your PC's screen onto your TV, same as it would be for PS2. There are methods to attach a PS2 controller to a PC, same as it would be on PS2. This alone, completely voids any reason you would not like PC gaming.

[RAIST]

It really doesn't even matter what I'm using, because pc gaming is not enjoyable to me. I have a toshiba laptop with a AMD Sempron processor, had it for about 2 years and it has gotten considerably slower probably due to past programming problems and infections. However, I brought a low power cpu for browsing and that is only what I use it for.

FYI, I played this game for almost 2 years on a Sempron.....just saying...

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Best I can remember, it was 2GHz Barton (2004), think it was an Asus A7N8 board... with ATI 9600 AIW Pro (2003 with built-in Video capture, cable card, 800/600 video out...was a sweet card), 4 x 1GB memory.... and an X1900 Pro series (2006)--both ran the game near flawlessly at 1024/768. Installed it with the AIW, then flipped it to eht x1900 for better overclocking for other games. I later went back to Intel based systems again. I may still have the board and processor stashed in the closet---think it was what I was going to rebuild my daughter's PC with, but she opted for a laptop instead.

I've run this game on Celemines, Core2D, Thunderbird/Sempron, and now a Core2 Duo. As already stated...it does NOT take a gaming machine to run it....otherwise people would not have reported getting it to run on a NETBOOK.

[Cljader1]

No it's not.

If ps2 is not a NA system, then I stand corrected.

[Zerich]

If ps2 is not a NA system, then I stand corrected.

Sony is a Japanese company.
The Playstation 2 was made and owned by Sony.
You are corrected.