Xbox one FF14 not coming anytime soon

Phil Spencer should run for office after sidestepping two issues that prevent this from happening, and pretending like they don't exist.

1. MS doesn't allow cross platform play on anything except MS platforms...aka Windows. SE would have to segregate Playstation and Apple users to get Xbox One players.

2. Microsoft drives all subscription games through XBL requiring both an XBL sub and the actual game sub to be paid through MS, so SE would not have a diect relationship with subscribers. Cash shop items and additional services would have to go through the XBL service also.

Phil neatly avoided any of this in his minced words in the linked interview...

Microsoft wants a piece of the Sub/Shop pie and segregation.

Yoshi refuses to segregate players and likely doesn't want to let Microsoft have free money from their work.

I also understand that in addition to MS wanting separate servers and wanting everything to go through XBL, MS would also require players to have a gold XBL account and SE doesn't want there to be any additional charges above the game cost and sub fee to play

M$ = Greed that's all :P

Good! Hold your ground SE! <3

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Originally Posted by zar

Why do they call it an Xbox One?

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Your turn one degree and walk awkwardly into it.

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Originally Posted by zar

Why do they call it an Xbox One?

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because you walk up to it and immediately turn around and walk away! teehee!

but yeah he (yoshi-p) had already made it sound it was highly unlikely to go to any xbone platform. Since i don't own one i honestly didn't pay much attention to the finer details :P

Also upon reading that article, that guy can sure spin a tale >.> but hes still 1000 years away from blizzard dev powa! :)

The 360 version of FFXI only required an Xbox live silver account so there wasn't an additional fee. There was also no segregation of players either so if they allowed it before why are they acting like this now? This guy says "its business" but its bad business in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by JouriStarz

The 360 version of FFXI only required an Xbox live silver account so there wasn't an additional fee. There was also no segregation of players either so if they allowed it before why are they acting like this now? This guy says "its business" but its bad business in my opinion.

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MS's stance on cross-platform play was a bit different then, I guess? They were dabbling in having it between PC and 360 with stuff like Shadowrun, which failed miserably. After THAT is when they tried to sweep the whole idea under the rug and segregate everything so as not to give PC players an unfair advantage... or something.

Yea saw this article on gamespot also. Microsoft trying to spin it in a way that makes SE look like the bad guy for XIV not being on the xbox one when it really the other way around.