Nightmare becoming true ... save PS2 and xbox version PLEASE SUPPORT

[bungiefanNA]

Sony is shutting down their DNAS servers in March, which FFXI requires to be able to connect. Also, SE's supply of PS2 devkits to compile the files for PS2 to implement bug fixes are dwindling. They can't get more devkits, they've already bought every one available in the world that anyone was willing to sell. They can patch the PC client, but they can't make new assets (graphics and sounds/music) once the devkits stop working, so they're rather stop releasing new content and stop using the kits before they all fail. Xbox 360 support is also ending because Microsoft is shutting down the server that is used to connect to the FFXI servers.

So partially, it's not SE's choice to keep console support going, if the parent companies of the consoles shut down their matchmaking and authentication servers.

[Seillan]

"heck they play not to even merge servers ..."

Assuming you mean "plan" have they actually said that anywhere?

[Catmato]

have they actually said that anywhere?

I don't have a link, but I believe they said they don't want to merge servers until after Rhapsodies is done.

Please support so we save consoles ..

I really don't understand the opposition to playing on PC. PCs have HDMI ports and support controllers. FFXI also has really low system requirements. Consoles have held the game back since 2002, why continue to do so after its swan song?

[Seillan]

I don't have a link, but I believe they said they don't want to merge servers until after Rhapsodies is done.

Yeah, I thought I remembered reading something like that myself. That's why I was wondering where the OP came to the conclusion that they had no intentions of merging them at all.

[Economizer]

They can patch the PC client, but they can't make new assets (graphics and sounds/music) once the devkits stop working, so they're rather stop releasing new content and stop using the kits before they all fail.

This is the weakest excuse ever. They're dropping PS2 support, so needing a PS2 devkit to make new assets is stupid.

The JP population evaporating with the PS2 makes some sense because no company would be so insane as to support a platform that has been otherwise killing their once intensely profitable MMO for the last five or six years.

As for the person complaining about PS2 support getting dropped, get any PC made in the last decade, you can buy them used for dirt cheap (and reinstalling Windows if you're worried about the last person's files is super easy too), then get a USB adapter for your controller since that's the only legit excuse you couldn't hack it at playing on a PC, and spend five minutes mapping your controller. If you're using a PS3 controller the adapter is just the cord to charge it even.