Reminder On What Was Actually Said Regarding PS3 Support After 3.0

[Greydor]

They would be dumb to keep up with PS3 support. It's holding so many things back in the game.

Only subtle things to my knowledge have ever distinctly been called out as a PS3 limitation, TP specifically. One can't say definitively that it's holding us back, when we don't know what's in store for the future. Most of the reason I posted this was for comments like this. There's just too many unknowns, and not a whole lot has been said about it. PS3 may not hold 4.0+ back for all we know - it's just pure speculation.

EDIT: I'm not defending PS3, I'm just trying to be a voice of reason.

[Klamor]

Only subtle things to my knowledge have ever distinctly been called out as a PS3 limitation, TP specifically. One can't say definitively that it's holding us back, when we don't know what's in store for the future. Most of the reason I posted this was for comments like this. There's just too many unknowns, and not a whole lot has been said about it. PS3 may not hold 4.0+ back for all we know - it's just pure speculation.

If PS3 support is maintained for 4.0 and beyond then we can basically guarantee that ain't shit gonna change in the game. That fact right there promises the PS3 won't hold us back any further than it already is. We can't have open world anything because of PS3. If people haven't upgraded from a PS3 at this point, then perhaps they need to reevaluate their priorities with where their money is going. Sorry, not sorry, that your decade old tech can't keep up with the times. It's not supposed to. Your equipment has outlived its intended purpose, and keeping a machine on life support just so you can enjoy your 30FPS 720p is disgusting. 8K is right around the corner.

Yoshi said it. They'll support it for as long as people are playing on it. Sounds like we need to direct the irritation that the game is still designed for toasters not at the developers any longer, but instead at the ones we find still using the toasters. Hell, you can get a pretty decent laptop for the same price as a PS4 that's got twice the computational power. Exactly zero excuse why, by this time, you couldn't have set your allowance aside and have saved enough for that upgrade.

inb4 all the delicious tears of toaster-wielders!

[worldofneil]

Sorry, not sorry, that your decade old tech can't keep up with the times. It's not supposed to. Your equipment has outlived its intended purpose, and keeping a machine on life support just so you can enjoy your 30FPS 720p is disgusting.

Except that FF XIV on the PS3 is "keeping up" just fine (as the game is now). Sure it struggles when there's things with lots of players (like hunts), but as long as the game supports it, they don't have much of a problem/reason to have to upgrade.

I play on PC myself and although I've added a PS3 licence to my account, it just felt so clunky I've never played more than about 5 minutes on it so I don't really know how people can play on it... but for those players that are, if they're "happy" with how it performs, if they don't really have a reason to upgrade and it's going to be less of a concern to them.

If/when SE drop support for PS3 with one of the expansions (be it 4.0 or 5.0) then then that'll give those players a reason to consider upgrading, but I don't expect massive changes over night either as it's likely that 2.0 and 3.0 would still be supported for years (based on how SE handled PS2 support for XI)