Final Fantasy XI PS3 Version

[Rieul]

Whatever they do, Don't Port Xbox to PS3 please >.<;

[Sp1cyryan]

Doubt it will happen sadly. No matter what they add, the game is going to die in the next year or 2 I think.

THE RAPTURE IS COMING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

We have been hearing this <blank> for years. Enough already with the prophecies.
Someone might actually take them seriously, look at the people who prepared for the Mayan 2012 garbage.

bad content will make others leave,

The Devs are not putting out bad content.

the devs turning down nearly every idea brought by the player base, will insult even more to the point of leaving.

A lot of the good ideas take a lot of time reworking the spaghetti code that is FFXI. They have to pick and choose what merits an immense time sink and what does not as well as factoring in their own plans.

As for the rest of the ideas from the player base. Have you ever put yourself in their position? They are not Santa Clause Ltd. and they have wishes being thrown at them everyday. On top of that you have the ideas that are subjective that the community splits down the line about and argue over.

But, yes there are just some things they will not listen to. That is not to say it is a good thing or bad thing though.

Besides that, adding new players seems unlikely as many threads popping up keep saying, this game & its community aren't very noob friendly.

We live in a world where people do not even want to turn their lights on anymore. What do you expect?

This game is not hard to learn and play. Personally I find the community to be kind and giving to those who actually put in the effort. If you are someone who just wants to shout a question in PJ you can easily look up (the most frequent scenario) then no the community will not treat you nicely. If you shout for help for hours with something you can easily do by yourself then once again the community will not be that nice to you.

We have a lot of what I have started dubbing Wall-E players out there. Riding in their chairs, being served, not having to do a thing, and expecting things to be done for them.

They do not:
*Put in research into this elaborate game.
*Put any effort into becoming a team player (or even any real effort into their own characters development in all honesty).
*Get upset when they want more out of the game than they can from their lack of time to play.
*Get upset when others do not want to play with them because (in addition to bullet one and two) they have developed their own opinions bereft of any actual data. Then get an attitude on top of that.
*Go complain that because of failing to do bullet one and two that things should change to conform to their world.
*When people give them <blank> about it because of their ranting and raving they get even more attitude about the community (you know as I write this a player who starts with an 'R' and rhymes with Sh-moe-Sh-mina comes to night) and eventually place the blame on the community.
*Decide they are sick of not having things the way they want, place some blame, complain, and quit.

Wall-E players ladies and gentlemen, Wall-E players.


Oh, and even though they said they would not release a PS3 version I think it be nice to see.

Then we could start treating Xbox like the PS2 >: D

There, I stayed on topic.

[Demon6324236]

Ideas such as En-spells stacking with Excalibur(Or Excalibur overwriting it on procs) should be done, why? Relics are powerful & expensive weapons, by having it how it is they weaken Excalibur so much that Almace dominates it in basically every way except when mobs have PDT, then Excalibur pulls ahead because of Req bypassing PDT. Storage Slips have no reworking that would need be done, they have tons of them, they add more things to slips we already have & add more things to new slips every few months. Player ideas are not always super complex or unreasonable, and yet they are often ignored & never happen. I am not saying I want everything to happen, I simply want things that make sense & seem relatively easy, to happen.

I have my reasons why I think the game will die, in either case I do like the idea of this game living on & going to PS3 but the chances just arnt likely in my opinion.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I though SE already said no to PS3 somewhere.

[oliveira]

I though SE already said no to PS3 somewhere.

Twice... Maybe more times, even ...

[svengalis]

Its to late for a PS3 version at this point. A PS4 version might make since as PS4 should be coming out next year but anything more then a downloadable version probably isn't worth it. Also I doubt this game will die in 1-2 years with the new expansion coming next year. That should add 2-3 more years at least to this game.

[Onimeonokyo]

I though SE already said no to PS3 somewhere.

Last time it was directly mentioned was at VanaFest:
"
Q: FinalFantasy.de:
There is no version of Final Fantasy XI for the PS3. Are there any plans to develop one? In Europe, there are no HDDs available for the PS2.

A: At the moment, there are no plans to develop a PS3 version. They already have the PS2 game, and they plan to continue supporting the PS2. They don't feel it would be the best use of resources to work on the PS3. Unfortunately, Square Enix is not a hardware manufacturer. They would love to release a HDD, but there is nothing they can do.

"

No plans at the moment doesnt mean no, just means we need to demand it more! :O

[wildsprite]

actually from my understanding it was SONY that turned down FFXI not SE, but then again its been mixed information from the getgo, some places are saying SE is trying to get SONY to support PS2 FFXI on the PS3 in software but SONY is refusing, who knows, its probably a mixture of stubborn higher ups from both companies that are the reason and you can bet part of the reason SE is saying no now is because of FFXIV:ARR, but who knows, in a year maybe they will change their tune if they aren't getting enough income from XIV, but honestly I wouldn't hold my breath since the players have wanted a real PS3 version since the PS3 was released

on another note FFXI for the PS Vita was announced, did that get canceled?

[Mirage]

I think cancelled would be the wrong word to use. That would imply that it ever got past the "Developer #2: Hey what if we made a vita version!?"-phase.

[oliveira]

The problem with PS2 HDD in Europe was with SCEE directors not wanting the HDD to be sold. They were strongly against it.

Turns out that they were right on their worries as HD Loader was devised/developed by a Dutch guy and most developers for the homebrewn PS2 Development toolchain were based in Europe to begin with. HD Loader used the free/non SONY toolchain and libraries for compilation. SONY got to sue them for what it did to legitimate games, not for it using SONY code.

Finally, PS2 FFXI has the whole coding for running on PAL PS2s in it's program, but it was never enabled because there's no POL Viewer for PAL regions and no valid title ID (SLES-XXXXX code) is assigned for the PAL release.

No HDD, no FFXI.