Xbox one FF14 not coming anytime soon

[Kosmos992k]

The game isn't on the Xone because Microsoft is idiotic in it's thinking it's players can't coexist with Sony and PC players. They want dedicated servers for all Xbox games, it's ridiculous to say the least, not even PSU had cross server play, sad because it could probably have helped the game last a bit longer then it did.

It's hugely ironic that a company that built it's empire on an almost literal mountain of FUD** is actually afraid to let their customers coexist with customers on alternate platforms. I mean, think about it, how confident about your platform/product are you if you intentionally prevent users of your platform/product from interacting with those on other platforms? Seems like Sony is pretty confident, and Microsoft is too scared to share.

** FUD - Fear Uncertainty and Doubt - M$ spent decades actively trying to scare people away from the competition, and towards their own products.

[Nadirah]

I'm not quite sure if Nadirah means FFXIV has lower sys. requirements than WoW

Athlon IIx2
GeForce 250 GTS (think it had 2GB VRAM)
4GB RAM
Win 7 64 bit

ARR ran beautifully in instances, load times were atrocious. 8 player trials caused it to have frame rate issues and open world was awful with a lot of players. Load times were atrocious. Skipping CS took forever, I missed queue pops trying to skip Hildy CS. Crystal tower was no go.

WoW ran beautifully outside instanced raids. 10-25+ player raids ran like shit. Load times were tolerable.

ARR ran my CPU at 95-100% constantly. GPU and RAM never under heavy load. WoW ate RAM for lunch, CPU at 100% in instanced content.

I ran that machine until a few days before HW.

Examples of issues I had on that desktop in ARR:

Titan landslides not drawing until after they happened.
Titan landslides rendering before he did
Garuda loading almost a full minute into the fight
NPCs in general not loading because there were too many players in the area
Revenants Toll took 2 and a half minutes to load into

CPU was *constantly* bogged down. When I built my current machine, I used the same video card for a number of weeks until I got my new one. I could crank the graphics to high hell on that crappy little card and the i5 fixed all my problems.

WoW finally stopped having issues as well. It's incredibly CPU reliant as well, as it's designed to be run on your standard desktop computer. Even business machines have decent CPUs. GPU is lower priority.

[ErzaScarlet77]

i kinda want them to make a xbox xclusive server just to see how dead it is lol.
have thta one guy shouting "hello? is anyone here?"

[Colorful]

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That is what I said?

but it's because WoW is heavily CPU reliant when you turn down the settings, while FFXIV is more GPU reliant

Meaning that on a low preset, it still relies heavily on the CPU, while if you crank it up to max it relies on both CPU and GPU. FFXIV is going to be more reliant on both even on the lowest possible preset available since we're talking about the bare minimum required to run these games.

[SirPhoebos]

Why do they call it an Xbox One?

Because a marketing exec at MS noticed how everyone called the Xbox 360 "The 360" and thought "if we name our new counsel 'Xbox One,' then it's nickname will be 'The One'".

No I'm not making that up.

[Kosmos992k]

Because a marketing exec at MS noticed how everyone called the Xbox 360 "The 360" and thought "if we name our new counsel 'Xbox One,' then it's nickname will be 'The One'".

No I'm not making that up.

...and instead it was dubbed the Xbone...funny chaps those internet kids...

[Nadirah]

That is what I said?



Meaning that on a low preset, it still relies heavily on the CPU, while if you crank it up to max it relies on both CPU and GPU. FFXIV is going to be more reliant on both even on the lowest possible preset available since we're talking about the bare minimum required to run these games.

On low presets, wow used more GPU and CPU.

I think some of the coding is just weird because the boost was most noticeable for both with CPU upgrades.

I could run both on High settings with that same GPU and FFXIV stressed it less.

Keep in mind, I don't believe there is a setting for DirectX on WoW. It's used 9.0c since launch.

I *can* run DX 11 on my current card(R9 380) but that requires it to not randomly ctd.

[Mature]

It's all Microsoft and their idiotic greedy politics. I love how they're trying to pass blame to SE for the reason as to why FFXIV is not available on xbone.

Such shame really