So..to those of you saying the PS3 WAS NOT going to limit this game.

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I just wanted to address this part.

Originally I started playing the initial beta and official release of FFXIV 1.0 with an old Core 2 Duo @ 2.5ghz and a GTS 450 (Not a powerful video card) to support it and I had absolutely 0 problems running the game on Maximum settings while getting a constant 30-45fps. Dropping it down to standard (which still looked really really good) I could manage 50-60fps constantly.

The price of the PC was $420 which, at the time that I bought it, was cheaper than the going rate of a PS3, lol...

I'll never understand statements like "You need a monster PC to even begin thinking about playing FFXIV 1.0!" when that isn't the truth at all, it's just people being picky (like me) who spent thousands of dollars to play the game "perfectly" at maximum.

Hell! by the time version 1.23 rolled around, they had optimized the game so much graphically that the same $420 PC could play the game at maximum as well as my newly created $2400 PC...

Then explain why my i5 processor, (unsure of the hertz) with 4GB of RAM, and ATI 5450 couldn't run the game at minimum settings with any higher than 15 fps. Please explain why I had to throw the disc in a box to never touch it again. I started at launch, quit, tried again around July 2011 and still couldn't play to any decent degree.