Consider FFXIV on XBox

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Originally Posted by Karatecatgrl

It's because this game was released before ps+ was a thing and was grandfathered when Sony made online gaming a part of ps+.

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Wrong all free to play games on Sony don't need plus and all games that have a sub u don't need plus

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Originally Posted by Alpheus

It will happen eventually, I honestly think that was the original plan with the initial server expansion plans. SE was notoriously penny pinching with FFXI, so when YoshiP mentioned how they moved forward an already planned expansion of servers for NA DCs, that implies SE approved of the budget for it, and this was prior to YoshiP declaring that XIV would be spared no expense going forward as far as it's budget was concerned.

So with SE (previously) being notoriously stingy, yet would still approve of such a large sum of money, while it could have simply been estimated growth projections that moved SE's hand in approving that budget or that the amount of servers NA does already have, that that amount would have been untenable by that point in the game's life, but my gut feeling upon hearing that news of 7.0 server expansion plans would be accelerated, that made me think it is possible for 7.0 to be accompanied by adding MS console support to XIV. It had to have been something that was a big enough deal and something reasonably set in stone that by that update, there would be a need for more servers specifically for NA. Basically the only way SE would have been moved to approve that budget and plan, would have been because a rather unavoidable 'other shoe' was going to drop and adding support to another version of the game fits that vibe to me.

FFXI was available to play on PS2, PC, and Xbox 360. I think YoshiP would definitely do his level best to try and repeat that hat trick with XIV. Not as a matter of pride or anything but simply because that's the legacy of FF MMOs. I don't put forward this line of thinking to imply that XIV will be forever a flop should it fail to secure the same level of cross platform play that it's predecessor was able to achieve. I'm not saying that nor is it my intention to even imply that. Just that YoshiP is just that much of a fan of MMOs as a genre he would genuinely try and make it happen as a fan of the genre who is in charge of a MMO.

It was mind blowing to me when I began playing FFXI on the 360, knowing i was playing with players across multiple platforms, it really sold what MMOs are about, in my view at least, so I wouldn't put it past YoshiP to at least try to do that again, especially when in a position to call as many shots as he can. I just hope this acquisition with MS and Activison-Blizzard doesn't provide any roadblocks to any such hypothetical efforts/negotiations. Or for this recent season of game industry acquisitions causing companies to roll up and pursue to acquire SE or something equally insane.

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Xbox is so far behind it too late of the game for them be coming in

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Originally Posted by Kolaina

Considering I’m the only 1 I recall who mentioned ssd, that’s not a lot of people to be referring to. As I only suggested that a PS4, with an ssd, which is proven to help with ps4 load times, may cause said console to out perform some of the potato pcs in the community…. I said nothing wrong.
Pc players…

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90% of gamers have no clue about computer hardware. I definitely believe it to be true that potato PCs are a bigger issue than PS4 currently. I mean, people are playing on old laptops with integrated graphics which are bound to perform worse than PS4. Pop an SSD into the PS4 and it becomes even better. The PS4 graphics card is roughly equivalent to a Radeon 7850 which is faster than even the newest integrated graphics chips.

I believe there was mentioned it was pretty much approved and in the works, but covid and constant delays had them completely push it off to the side and stop altogether, focus was all on EW launch. Maybe theyll jump back on once things start smoothing out, their focus now is the world/data center infrastructure, so maybe by 7.0 we could see something?

This is the latest interview that I can find

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"I feel bad for saying the same thing every time, but we are still in discussions with Microsoft, and I feel like our conversations are going in a positive-like tone," he said.

"I don't want to say we do not have an Xbox version, but I'm hoping that the timing will be very soon that I will have some kind of update to the players. I'm sure there's a lot of things that people want to ask about on this subject, and there's a lot of things I would love to share, but I'm afraid I'm unable to divulge on those details, so when the time comes... I'm sure the time will come, so if you could kindly stand by, that'd be great."

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Originally Posted by M1551NGN0

Do some people in here don't know the difference between SSDs and HDDs?

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Nope. They just buy Sony's marketing propaganda

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Originally Posted by Kolaina

Considering I’m the only 1 I recall who mentioned ssd, that’s not a lot of people to be referring to. As I only suggested that a PS4, with an ssd, which is proven to help with ps4 load times, may cause said console to out perform some of the potato pcs in the community…. I said nothing wrong.
Pc players…

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What stops those decade old PCs getting that same upgrade and then once again outperform PS4? Fair if both gets the upgrade

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Actually, they've stated the hold up is potato pcs now. A significant amount of people play on systems that don't or barely meet minimum specs. Console hasn't been stated to be an issue since the PS3 was dropped.

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So we've finally reached the circle to "PC Limitations"... You hate to read it.
I understand though that they're trying to make the game accessible to everyone they can but come on.
First PS3, now it's the PC players fault lol.
I'd really like a bit more oomph out of this game and not be held back because people are still running rigs from 2008 lmao.

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Originally Posted by Ranaku

I mean heck they supported playstation 3, 3(!!!!), until 2017. That thing was 11 years old by that point. And PC players have to suffer for it. The only reason we have so many many instanced zones is mostly cause...yeah...console limitations!

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They learned hard lesson from 1.0 not to design their game base around high end pc users that only makes up small fraction of player base. 1.0 was beautiful but not everyone has the PC can run it. PS3 used to have largest user base and it was a correct decision

It would be nice to have like texture packs or whatever but demanding to increase the fidelity overall would just decrease the amount of people who could run it on x. That is a terrible business decision. That being said, the game looks better with each and every expansion so I'm not not sure what some people are on about.