So are consoles holding back this game?

[Blaste]

and people wonder why there's so much toxicity this guy here is what is wrong with the community.
IV cleared every turn of Binding coil as a console player. People like him are the kind who demand you be on a PC to join their group because they have it in their head that their better than every one else.

No they demand people to be on PC because its more stable during fights with many things happening on the screen, no input lag and easier to communicate via typing if need be, have you ever tried to direct people with text on console? No, cause it doesn't happen. Thats what Ive seen anyway, people who don't communicate in pugs or in some hunts are generally ones on console, and lets not forget how easy it is to use a keyboard for MMO's...or most of them anyway.

[SakuraMidori]

Some people like to appear a bit different than other players, when you have met 20 people that look exactly like your character you tend to feel a little less unique, as far as character model customization goes FFXIV fails at this :/, there are so many things they could do to remedy this but sadly there are soooo many process limitations.

Lolll no wow failed at character model customization for it's whole lifespan and to this day still dose. ff act dose it better then most

[Jynx]

SE is holding the game back. Server limitations are more of an issue than PS3 limitations ever will be.

[NattyExe]

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There are many PC players who use gamepads as well. I swear gamepads are ergonomically superior than a typical keyboard. Perhaps there is some science out there on it, but perhaps academia hasn't been arsed to care. I think if you need more direct communication for something like a Coil, Alex, or a Primal Ex, you should be using voice chat, which is easy to obtain for any player. Communicating with others with a keyboard on a console is hardly different than communicating with others on a PC, but I believe we are delving into highly subjective territory. It probably depends on how well your muscles are accustomed to moving given your gaming setup. As to your claim about stability, I don't think there are any issues with PS4 stability when lots of things are going on. Lastly, the less people talking during hunts, the better.

[Fevelle]

I fear I might not be able to continue playing if a "graphical expansion" comes. I play on a 1360x768 TV at 30fps with a GTX860M notebook. I think thst's why I don't support SQEX dropping PS3...

[Blaste]

I don't think there are any issues with PS4 stability when lots of things are going on.

Its actually the PS3 stability I was talking about, Ive just seen people having many issues with this, especially during fate grind in NT.

[Meya]

Consoles do not hold back PC and PC do not hold back Consoles, this is all on dev's part they can create two different clients that still accessed same server. One for Consoles and one for PC but they do not do this so really Devs are holding back the game. Not the platforms

[NattyExe]

Its actually the PS3 stability I was talking about, Ive just seen people having many issues with this, especially during fate grind in NT.

Ah, gotcha. You are right, the PS3 is really quite a clunker in relation to FFXIV. I can't imagine trying to get anything serious done with it.

[Gilraen]

The game runs pretty bad on the PS3 when you compare it to a PC running it on minimum requirements...

Depends on the PC in question, really. There's a reason that not very many people played XIV 1.0, it would school even the best computers back then. It's a large reason why they toned everything down in 2.0. Not everyone is running cutting edge systems so to say that just the PS3 is 'holding the game back' is being pretty shallow.

[Gramul]

Really now, games like Halo which where only made for consoles your saying that's limited by consoles big games like Battlefield
lets not forget some of the best games like every final fantasy fame where always designed for consoles in mind. If you can't get your head around that GUH BUH CUH WUUHHHH.

I'm not arguing that developers gravitate towards consoles.
I'm just saying it's a base fact that consoles are straight up more limited than PC's. And that limitation restricts what can be done with this game, and every other game to come out on a console.

That's not necessarily a red mark against it. Very many of the best games ever made where limited by their comparative hardware at the time.