PS2 Limitations: What are Rumors, What is Truth?

[Neofire]

As for RROD, true if you have the older model but my friends have almost all of them had to replace the original PS3 that came out. YLOD + RROD apparently color deaths are on both.

As for Phantasy Star Online in Japan, that's only the Blue Burst version aka the PC version.

It doesn't actually get true games. A company has been making littleish games on it the past two years and that's about it.

And players don't make the content they just pay for it.
Obvious is obvious.

PS: FFXI with out the PS2's shackles will improve the entire game as a whole.

Fortunately for ps3 owners SE would never turn its back on the user base.

[Seiver]

This game will never receive a graphics update that's the biggest limitation if you ask me. I would love to see some FF XIV styled graphics running in this game but thanks to PS2 support that won't ever happen.

without the PS2, making FFXI look like FFXIV wouldn't be to hard. there using the same races, and a fair few of the same mob types. the only real task would be rebuilding the world as the engine is already there

[rog]

without the PS2, making FFXI look like FFXIV wouldn't be to hard. there using the same races, and a fair few of the same mob types. the only real task would be rebuilding the world as the engine is already there

But they won't. They could do that now. But they don't, because it's not worth it to them. The ps2 does not need to have the same graphics as other systems.

[Morlen]

do ya really need the best of the best graphics? i mean, come on, its not FF1 graphics lol, arent they good enough on ps2?
i dont know anyone who decided to pick up an old game like FF1 and say "The graphics suck on this, im not playing it anymore! SE needs to up the graphics on this now!"

/sarcasm off

[JagerForrester]

You know how we updated from analog to digital television? I can see the FFXI PS2 version become that on a smaller scale. Customers either give in and buy a digital television, or complain, and they got their transmitter boxes for their stubborn old TVs.

[CaelThunderwing]

as for PS2 Limitations they are working w/ 32MB Physical System RAM, a Custom "GS/Graphic Synth" GPU, an MIPS Based Processor "Emotion Engine" @ 766mhz so be glad the game is this far as it is since its the reason its held back , the PS2 is why the game is still rated for 56k (though these days you lag more on dialup .)

[rog]

the PS2 is why the game is still rated for 56k

No...

The ps2 supports 100 mbps.

[Gwynplaine]

They reskin zones/gear repeatedly because it's very easy for them to do so, very quickly, costing very little. It has nothing to do with the ps2. Nothing. At all. Reskinning gear/zones requires exactly the same space/memory as brand new zones/gear. It allows them to push out a lot of new content without much effort.

Yeah, that is a common myth I hear from a lot of players who don't get how zones work.

Reskinning zones, enemies, and armor etc. saves time, not disc space. I'd speculate that the long stretch of reused content has allowed Square to focus on FFXIV. The only way in which they've reused zones without taking up space is by instancing (which isn't the same). All the reskinned iterations we've seen (Dynamis, WotG, Abyssea, etc.) are their OWN individual zone and take up their own disc space. They are not just like the single zone on your HD multiplied ad-hoc and given some mood lighting.

No...
The ps2 supports 100 mbps.

I've wondered about this. If the official download speeds on the box have any legal/official bearing on how much they can require you to download or something.

[CaelThunderwing]

No...

The ps2 supports 100 mbps.

yes and no But because of the 56kHalf of the Network adapter. + at the time Broadban was far more expensive.

[rog]

yes and no But because of the 56kHalf of the Network adapter. + at the time Broadban was far more expensive.

Has nothing to do with the ps2. The network adaptor supports up to 100 mbps.