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.