Discontinue PS2 support!!

[Andylynn]

Discontinue PS2 support!!

Its been over 10 years since the initial release of the PS2 and as a console system has come to its end. It was a great system for its ERA but with XBOX 360 and PS3 and the current PC gaming systems playing on a PS2 is about the same as trying to play FFXI on a pentium 2 or pentium 3 pc on Windows ME or if u were lucky windows 2000 LOL.

With the advancing times and the release of newer MMORPG's like FFXIV and others using Cry Engine 3 or newer Unreal technologies. FFXI should discontinue ps2 supports for the rest of the gaming expansions starting in 6 months or around the end of the year. Then SE can start to upgrade the graphics also save time and stop money wasting time for programming on a dinosaur system and put it to use into making FFXI better graphically and in game design and content instead. I am sure there are probably many others out here who feel the same.

I understand there will be a few thousand players out there on PS2 still but u can get a brand new laptop for 200-300 bucks or even a used PC/Laptop or PS3 even cheaper still.

This is never going to happen, SE would never alienate even the smallest source of income, as it's horrible business practice. That would be a significant chunk of lost customers and money being put into the game, that we want/need if we want the game to continue running. (revenue is probably the only reason the game is still in development after 9? years)

[Atomic_Skull]

actually you're wrong, the XB360 version is the same quality textures super sampled, they are not higher quality, the xb360 port is PS2 emulation just like the windows port

It's not emulation. It's the PS2 code compiled with a wrapper. Emulation is virtual hardware that runs the machine instructions of the original hardware that it is emulating. PS2 emulation didn't even become possible until a few years ago because PC's just weren't fast enough until then.

[Sp1cyryan]

Discontinue arrogance support SE. That way there are no threads bitching about the PS2. :P

[Scuro]

This should happen, enough said. Why keep a limb that is rotting and will lead to the death of the game? Its time to amputate imo.

[rog]

Because it's not going to lead to the death of the game. I'm pretty sure no one is quitting over things like 80 max inventory, limited auto translate phrases, etc.

[Scuro]

With no new content coming after these last few updates coming, we will see a decline that is inevitable, and to say otherwise is just ignorance. The game will decline because the PS2 puts a limitation on content, and it is because of that limitation that it should be eliminated. Or as someone mentioned, let 2 versions come out:
First Version: PS2 whcih allows for small updates and the final "expansion" is Abyssea
Second Version: Xbox 360 and PC which allows for new expansions and content.

[rog]

The game will decline because the PS2 puts a limitation on content

No it does not.

[wildsprite]

first off, the limitation is what the PS2 can handle at any given time in RAM, the hard drive is a 40GB hard drive, , lesse the game is what? 9GB at current? unless you have a lot of garbage on your PS2 hard drive you should be able to take more expanded content for a while, as for the graphics on the Windows version, if you use registry tweaks you will see it looks considerably better than the XB360 version if you max out the settings(in the registry not the configuration) if you do a search you will see what registry settings you can modify without much issue, the max 3D res for windows version is 2048x2048, the 360 version doesn't even come close to doing that, I have mine set to 2048x2048 with 1366x768(max res of my laptop display, this is a non standard background and must be set in the config first before you tweak the 3D res, don't try to go above your max res for the background, the game will crash) background, this might not seem like much of a tweak but you should see it in play

[RAIST]

first off, the limitation is what the PS2 can handle at any given time in RAM, the hard drive is a 40GB hard drive, , lesse the game is what? 9GB at current? unless you have a lot of garbage on your PS2 hard drive you should be able to take more expanded content for a while, as for the graphics on the Windows version, if you use registry tweaks you will see it looks considerably better than the XB360 version if you max out the settings(in the registry not the configuration) if you do a search you will see what registry settings you can modify without much issue, the max 3D res for windows version is 2048x2048, the 360 version doesn't even come close to doing that, I have mine set to 2048x2048 with 1366x768(max res of my laptop display, this is a non standard background and must be set in the config first before you tweak the 3D res, don't try to go above your max res for the background, the game will crash) background, this might not seem like much of a tweak but you should see it in play

All you are doing is supersampling lower quality textures though. Garbage in, garbage out. Granted, they do look better when super sampled because youa re getting rid of the jaggies, but the textures have the same granularity of detail. The source textures are the difference--Xbox got new texture models that are a higher quality to begin with. So if they were to drop the PS2 wrapper and textures and transfer the Xbox components to the PC, you would see even more detail in them. But, that would involve transfering resources away from more important issues in the game and they are already working with a reduced number of people working on the game. I would rather they fix issues with content/gameplay first, then work on the aesthetic(sp?) issues.

[wildsprite]

actually you're wrong, the XB360 version is the same quality textures super sampled, they are not higher quality, the xb360 port is PS2 emulation just like the windows port, all you need to do is look at them closely side by side, there is no more detail on the 360 textures than the windows ones, the 360 version is super sampled when put on an HDTV