Support Yoshi-P's efforts to bring XIV to as many platforms as possible. :)

[Konicorgi]

I would prefer them to put their effort into a glamour log than new platform.

[Paladinleeds]

To be fair, I can't see the game coming to Xbox One, as much as I'd love to see it (I have an Xbox One for universal Windows development purposes). Sony/Nintendo have a market towards RPGs. Xbox is essentially shooter or bust. Pretty much every single title on the Xbox One that isn't some indie attempt that fails is a shooter. It's all Xbox players want unfortunately. I doubt they'd get many more subs for bringing the game to the Xbox One. I'd say 50 more subs is being generous.

[Delmontyb]

I would prefer them to put their effort into a glamour log than new platform.

Not a bad feature... But since XBOX runs windows... Hopefully they can just release the Windows version.

[Xlantaa]

I read long ago that SE wanted to bring the game to XBOX, but Microsoft refuses to share servers with Play Station and wanted have their own servers for his version, and of course SE said no. I don't know if this is true or not. Internet is a nest of rumors everywhere...

[Colorful]

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Don't think it's going to happen unless SE decides to host Xbox One only servers, unfortunately.

Of course, it’s up to game developers to support this feature, and Xbox Live players will always have the option of choosing to play only with other Xbox Live players.

Source.

[Paladinleeds]

Don't think it's going to happen unless SE decides to host Xbox One only servers, unfortunately.

Source.

Yep. It's not happening. How does SE define between Xbox One only and shared servers. You'd have to be able to migrate characters across between the 2 free of charge (or else it'll be a massive ripoff). We might as well rule out Xbox One at this point...

[Kosmos992k]

It's been a long while since I've posted anything on this topic, with an interview Phil Spencer gave to IGN about this topic back in September, he pretty much shot the idea of XIV coming to the XBOX anytime soon down, and shifted focus on their games collection coming this past Fall/Winter.

However, today they announced that Rocket League would allow for Cross Platform play right now with PC but with other platforms in the future. http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/14/112...play-announced

From his recent comments, this sounds like the last issue holding FFXIV back from the XB1 might finally be resolved.

Just thought I would share, crossing my fingers that we'll see this happen this year.

The issues preventing FFXIV happening on XBox are not simply the technical ones of networking or private vs.shared servers or MS Owned vs. 3rd Party servers. The Business model issues are a far greater hurdle.

Essentially it comes down to Sony not demanding to funnel the subs and MogStation Optional Item sales through the PS Store so they can take a cut of the revenue. Microsoft wants all revenue streams from Xbox products to flow through them, and they want a piece of the pie.

As for the interoperability, what Microsoft has done is open up the APIs used to enable PC/Xbox integration, and allow Xbox to see more than just XBL. There's nothing remarkable here and it will be implemented on a per game basis by developers if they deem it worth the effort.

[Paladinleeds]

The issues preventing FFXIV happening on XBox are not simply the technical ones of networking or private vs.shared servers or MS Owned vs. 3rd Party servers. The Business model issues are a far greater hurdle.

Essentially it comes down to Sony not demanding to funnel the subs and MogStation Optional Item sales through the PS Store so they can take a cut of the revenue. Microsoft wants all revenue streams from Xbox products to flow through them, and they want a piece of the pie.

I can see that working if someone has the Xbox version exclusively, but how would MS get their cake and eat it too if they're dealing with someone like me who has the Steam version?

[Kosmos992k]

I can see that working if someone has the Xbox version exclusively, but how would MS get their cake and eat it too if they're dealing with someone like me who has the Steam version?

They wouldn't, Steam isn't an MS platform. What I was referring to is that for Xbox, MS essentially demands that everything goes through XBL. So for SE, they would have to receive their revenue from both XBox player subs and Xbox player item sales via Microsoft. With Sony, and on any other platform other than XBox, SE is the master of it's own business.

[Paladinleeds]

They wouldn't, Steam isn't an MS platform. What I was referring to is that for Xbox, MS essentially demands that everything goes through XBL. So for SE, they would have to receive their revenue from both XBox player subs and Xbox player item sales via Microsoft. With Sony, and on any other platform other than XBox, SE is the master of it's own business.

Sorry, I wasn't very clear before. I was meaning how would MS get their cake and eat it too if it was released on Xbox One and I picked it up on X1 (I own the console, I'm a universal Windows developer in training), and then also played with the Steam version. I could just funnel my purchases through Steam/Mog Station correct? Then MS loses out.