PS2 - Real info request.

[Satyr]

IMO they should drop PS2 support. Sure they would lose a small number of customers, but come on...some times you just have to accept the fact that it is time to move on and it is a proven fact that the PS2 is holding this game back. In all honesty, if they dropped PS2 support and improved the game to be a game that is meant to run on PC, 360, and possibly even PS3, we would not only have a better game, but SE could possibly attract enough new players to make up for those that they lost from canning the PS2.

Edit: If they discontinued PS2 support they could allow PS2 players to download the game and any expansions that they had active on their account for free so that if they still wanted to play they would not have to buy the game again to play on PC, or 360, or maybe PS3 if they ever added it.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

IMO they should drop PS2 support. Sure they would lose a small number of customers, but come on...some times you just have to accept the fact that it is time to move on and it is a proven fact that the PS2 is holding this game back. In all honesty, if they dropped PS2 support and improved the game to be a game that is meant to run on PC, 360, and possibly even PS3, we would not only have a better game, but SE could possibly attract enough new players to make up for those that they lost from canning the PS2.

The new content in all likelyhood would also atract the displaced PS2 players who, after all, will not lose anything ingame in the transition.

[Neofire]

The new content in all likelyhood would also atract the displaced PS2 players who, after all, will not lose anything ingame in the transition.

Can i borrow that time machine so i see what you claim to know will happen? lol


All i see is the same set of cry babies on this forum posting the same topic over and over again.

[JagerForrester]

Can i borrow that time machine so i see what you claim to know what will happen? lol

It's a guess. I said the same thing to you in another thread.

SE would gain money by selling an expansion to the customers and a little extra money from those players willing to switch platforms and still play FFXI. This would be incentive enough to drop the PS2 if this plan went into motion.

But there was one thing you did not fight me on, and I found out this is good argument against dropping the PS2. How much do you think it will actually cost to change the programming and erasing all the data to remove any kind of support for the PS2? My friend pointed out that it would be "very" costly. He gave me rough numbers, but it was a strong point why SE didn't decide to drop the PS2 for FFXI but instead go with a new MMO. To be blunt, they would not make a profit in a year's time.

[Zyeriis]

It's a guess. I said the same thing to you in another thread.

SE would gain money by selling an expansion to the customers and a little extra money from those players willing to switch platforms and still play FFXI. This would be incentive enough to drop the PS2 if this plan went into motion.

But there was one thing you did not fight me on, and I found out this is good argument against dropping the PS2. How much do you think it will actually cost to change the programming and erasing all the data to remove any kind of support for the PS2? My friend pointed out that it would be "very" costly. He gave me rough numbers, but it was a strong point why SE didn't decide to drop the PS2 for FFXI but instead go with a new MMO. To be blunt, they would not make a profit in a year's time.

Well considering how that other MMO is going, they probably should've just dropped ps2 support for this.

[JagerForrester]

Well considering how that other MMO is going, they probably should've just dropped ps2 support for this.

It would still cost the money. I think that's why the easy button has been hit for FFXI. All this new recent content has sped up leveling, and it attracted new players. I think that is SE's plan to make up for lost profits. They'll use this money to keep their employees working on fixing FFXIV. Then if they are willing and FFXI still has a profitable gain to it, they will get rid of the limitations.