So are consoles holding back this game?

[Zeonx]

The same should of been done for final fantasy XI with the PS2, they should of taken steps to make sure playstation tools were not needed for FFXI then converted it for the PC.

Here they need to get RID of PS3 before that becomes a issue, People do own the playstation 3 copy but most likely they have a PC or PS4 also and if they don't in this day and time they need to hop on it.

Long time ago I really wished they dropped playstation 2 support for FFXI so that the graphics and everything could of been enhanced, this should of happened when PS2 was having the black screen issues.

[Gilraen]

The same should of been done for final fantasy XI with the PS2, they should of taken steps to make sure playstation tools were not needed for FFXI then converted it for the PC.

You do know that the PC version was the port with XI, right? Not the other way around, though it is the case with the 360 version. XI's original Beta was on the PS2, only in Japan of course. The Black Screen issues all stemmed from the PS2 HDD's capacity and not the console's hardware, they were trying to just cram 13 years of game updates into a hard drive whose use wasn't really planned that far in advance. Square had to streamline, compress and reorganize the game data to get it all to fit without issue... though I can attest that there were still issues, like NPCs not working (the outpost warp NPC in San d'Oria being one of them). They fixed alot of these issues before I quit.

[Zeonx]

You do know that the PC version was the port with XI, right? .

Yes, what I meant was they cannot continue the game without playstation 2's playstation tools.

which is why I said they needed to port the tools to PC instead of using playstation tools as it was the foundation of FFXI.

they said there would be small patches but no big major ones after the final expansion.

Which is why I said if they had done this from the start they could have continued the game.

[Gilraen]

Which is why I said if they had done this from the start they could have continued the game.

Actually, XI's problem has nothing to do with it's graphics (which they have stated repeatedly that they'd NOT overhaul, people have been crying for it for years which is why people expected XIV to be XI-2... which it isn't). XI is one of the last vestiges of the old guard MMOs; the slow, methodical and grind-heavy MMOs designed back before people finally figured out the better MMO formulas. A person having 'grown up' on games with XIV's pace would be driven mad with boredom at XI's. The only way Square could have kept XI relevant would have been to pull a Sony and 'reinvent' the game. We all know how well that worked out (coughGalaxiescough). Dropping PS2 support would have only alienated the customer base they built with the PS2 version, especially given their home market at the time generally didn't have good PCs given their cost.