Can the PC players give the PS3 players a break a little?

[Deculture]

Why should we? The fact the game is on your console is why this game was watered down. Why we have zone borders. Why we lost belts, high level textures. Why zones are the smallest among modern mmos. Because they tried to fit a game like FFXIV on a console with 256mb of video ram. No breaks for you. Everywhere I look my game bleeds because you wanted to play a modern mmo as beautiful was FFXIV 1.0 on a console I could buy for 99 bucks on craigslist. Mash the start button more.

This game used to be a beautiful, wide open world. I used to be able to walk down the bridge of Limsa Lominsa and explore the city without loading. There was no such thing as Eastern Thanalan, Western Thanalan, Northern Thanalan and Southern Thanalan. It was just Thanalan.

This was its theme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g00knvH5Oks

When Ishgard comes out, not a single one of us will have the pleasure of riding down that long bridge over the clouds. We get a portal and a teleport thanks to you. I honestly don't care. It was a mistake to put this on the PS3, and I wish you guys would whine more about it so Squaresoft realizes it just the same. They could have waited for PS4 and released this in 2014, and had a PC and Console title with similar and competetive processing power, but instead weakened the entire game for the 200 thousand players forcing them to release it on an EIGHT YEAR OLD SYSTEM. I'm glad things are bad on it. They should be.

Could you imagine how awesome this game would have been if PS3 wasn't in the equation? The size of the zones? The beauty in the textures? Sad part is, YEARS from now, even brand new content has to be released that the PS3 can handle because you're the lowest common denominator! Our game is outdated from the getgo, thanks to you. You should be giving us a break.

Should have saw this coming from a mile away if you came from XI. No matter how strong a console it, it will eventually hold back an MMO as time passes by. This would have been true even for the PS4, but developing it down for the PS3's level only made it much worse as you're effectively trying to put a modern MMO on an antique piece of hardware.

[Krystalynn]

Mmmm dat copy and paste landscape. Thanalan never used to be broken up and it all looked the same! It used to be wonderful running 10minutes across the zone and it didn't change in the slightest!

I prefer the newer landscapes. What I miss are the textures, they used to be so pretty but are a tad garish now.

I don't think I'll hold it against ps3 users though ^^;

Lack of artistry in the environment was a failing of the devteam that was eliminated. The thought of Yoshi's team getting the resources that Tanaka's had to work with gives me chills. To think of what they could have been capable of. They forced a square peg into a round hole because of the PS3, and then its market want us to give them a break because they lack four corners. Alright then. No.

Edit: Oh by the way, one of the reasons they went with copy paste geometry, is because FFXIV 1.0 was slated to also be a console game. Tanaka's team wanted to give PS3 player the widespread open world, with its limitations inmind. By pasting the world again and again, they would have saved resources. It never worked out, but even that poor system existed because of the limitation of a console.

Should have saw this coming from a mile away if you came from XI. No matter how strong a console it, it will eventually hold back an MMO as time passes by. This would have been true even for the PS4, but developing it down for the PS3's level only made it much worse as you're effectively trying to put a modern MMO on an antique piece of hardware.

Exactly. XI players know this sting all too well. Decade old mmo still held back by a PS2 console, that sadly, some today still play on, at the selfish cost of every PC gamer that could have had a better game over time. It's a tragedy honestly.

[Sussie]

It is actually the fault of Playstation owners that Square-Enix decided to release this game on Playstation. How could have this crisis been averted? Well




uhhh.

[HumsterMKX]

It is actually the fault of Playstation owners that Square-Enix decided to release this game on Playstation. How could have this crisis been averted? Well




uhhh.

*Puts on anti console helm*

PS3 owners should have taken the honourable route and tell SE not to release this game at their consoles in the first place. Now they will be dishonoured for generations to come.


Seriously, the PS3 release is like a face saving tactic. And PS3 owners got sucked into thinking FFXIV on the PS3 will behave like FFXI on the PS2.

What ppl forgotten is FFXI is a console port. While FFXIV is developed from the PC.

[Avalon_Albrook]

Exactly. XI players know this sting all too well. Decade old mmo still held back by a PS2 console, that sadly, some today still play on, at the selfish cost of every PC gamer that could have had a better game over time. It's a tragedy honestly.

Thank god we can recognize this great horror of humanity with the gravity it deserves alongside such similar tragedies as the Holocaust and the Khmer Rouge.

People like you make me all the more delighted to play on a PS3 and do so at the utter shock of my Coil static and the endgame players I frequently party with.

[Elim]

And they said that the PS3 wouldn't hold the game back.

Personally, I think they should stop supporting the PS3 and PS4 version. I never ask if someone is on a PS, but they normally announce that they are followed by apologizing for any mistakes they make because of it's limitations. The PS users seem to complain about themselves more than the PC users do.

[SoulKhan]

I am on the pc but I think it is great that I can group with ps3 and ps4 players. I am not an ass and I do enjoy the game being out for all platforms because we are all gamers

[OMEGAlomania]

Why should we? -snip-

All of those things suck, I won't argue, I miss a lot about 1.0 and i've never hidden that. But it's hardly the players fault. SE decided to make it this way, not them. The players are trying to make the best of a less than ideal situation, and in terms of gameplay it's almost unnoticeable if they are practiced enough. In terms of zoning that's a different matter of course, but they didn't make it that way, so don't take it out on them.

[Mailstrum]

can always tell a ps3 player. Slow to trun you cant turn on a ps3 as fast as you can with mouse look. turning on a ps3 is equivalent to keyboard turning on a PC. Its bad and slow. its not just ps3 its people that play the game with a controler its the imitations to the controler and how it turns. I always see controller character getting their ass kicked to aoe because of this slow arcing turn they do before they get out of the aoe. Also as others mentioned Targeting is a joke with controller. Cycle through targets. no thank you i rather use mouse over macros or select my target by clicking it in the enemy list or clicking its name plate. give a quick example. tanking a pack of mobs 1 starts to run off to the healer instead of needing to actually target this mob i have a mouse over macro for provoke shield lob...so i just hover my mouse over that target click the macro never dropping target from the mob i currently have set to be killed first. This is just a couple examples of advantages over controller players keyboard/mouse has.

[Kyriea]

People can hate me for playing on PS3 all they want but it doesn't affect me in the slightest. I actually like being hated for the simple fact that I have affected someone else by doing what I want to do. I love the fact that people say PS3 limitations blah blah but cannot do anything about it except moan and cry. If people are so judgmental and rude to people doing what they prefer then they can but just know that everyone who plays on PS3 will always be ahead of you for the simple reason that the console will never be dropped by SE.

If you don't believe me - do some research into Japanese gaming culture.