NA PS2 - One Last Shot

[Alhanelem]

lol you guys.. PS2 users aren't hurting anything. if they drop PS2 support the PC client won't suddenly be amazing unless they redo the entire thing from the ground up.

They're really not helping anything either. And while I agree that there wouldn't be a magical overnight change for the game upon dropping the PS2, it would open the doors to certain kinds of adjustments that might not otherwise be considered.

The game itself is built around PS2 architecture and then ported over to PC. We are always going to have PS2 limitations.

Not really.

The game engine is already capable of using higher resolution textures than are normally used in the game. Textures for certain specific things in the game have already been upgraded on PC only.

The two main limitations of the PS2 are hard disk partition space and memory. These two limits essentially do not exist on the PC, since even the worst PCs sold today have more memory than a PS2 and more hard disk space. If the PS2 version uses too much memory, it freezes. If the PC client uses too much memory... windows just allocates more, or pushes something to the virtual memory swap file.

There are already many technical changes and token upgrades that only apply to the PC and in some cases the xbox versions of the game. Cutting the PS2 just makes that easier.

[Kaisha]

The two main limitations of the PS2 are hard disk partition space and memory.

Only limitation is memory. They already increased the partition from 8gb to 19gb last year for all PS2 (and PS3 BC) players, unless you think they're going to magically bloat the game by another 10gbs on PS2 within a couple years.

[Alhanelem]

Only limitation is memory. They already increased the partition from 8gb to 19gb last year for all PS2 (and PS3 BC) players, unless you think they're going to magically bloat the game by another 10gbs on PS2 within a couple years.

hard disk space is a limitation. they can't increase the size of the partition infinitely.

edit sorry bout double post.

[Kaisha]

hard disk space is a limitation. they can't increase the size of the partition infinitely.

edit sorry bout double post.

The realistic outlook is that XI will be dead by the time it hits 19gb of space. Even then, there's still more room they can partition away.

Unless they decide to completely overhaul XI for some unfathomable reason in the future, they're not hitting that 19gb cap in another decade at the rate the game gets new content.