Developers: Why are you "limiting" FFXIV to the PS3 as you limited FF11 to the PS2?

[AreeyaJaidee]

So you are stating as a FACT that the PS3 wont hurt, limit or hold back IN ANYWAY this game in let's say 5 years form now as if it were released only on PC? Answer YES or NO period!

How are you going to elaborate your point and confine answers to a singular value? Are you smoking crack?

You don't start a debate and demand yourself an advantage.

The clear point is: you are overreacting; you are incorrect and all of your "supporting" "facts" are founded upon the antiquated happenings of a MMO (ffxi) with which you presume a false authoritative stance in the endeavor of demeaning SEs business proposition to revitalize a game that many of us have become highly enamored with.

I say get with the program or gtfo our forums and game.

[Darkhaund]

lol your forums and your game???... you STFU and GTFO yoruself!!!

I have all the right to express my concerns.
I like the game and I just dont want to see it suffer or held back because it is being ported on an older system.

Learn to read and accept ohters ideas

[Kailea_Nagisa]

in fact.. the very FACT that they are making SMALLER ZONES, they just said it is becaue they need to adapt the game for the PS3. So since now... limitations are being present

that is not what they said at all, they said that they are zoneing it so that they can diversify the areas to look different.

it does not matter what year it is or what system FFXIV is on (unless it was PC only) there will be a "wall" that is hit, people have to deal with that or don't play multi platform MMORPGs.

There is still alot the PS3 can do, and no this will never be on 360..... then you will see some real limitations ;p

If anything the 360 is limited on HDD space, the most you can get is 320 I think, where as on PS3...hell I have a 500gb HDD in mine, and can easily place a 1-2tb in it if I choose.

[Zumi]

You know Sony is going to announce PS4 at the next E3 along with MS and their new Xbox, at this point they should just start development for PS4 rather then PS3 which uses such old tech now.

[Darkhaund]

THEY DID MENTION that they are "optimizing" it for PS3... go READ en entire thing

[AreeyaJaidee]

Whenever you make a game for a specific platform, the game is limited in the future based on that system's specs. This includes the minimum requirements for the PC and Ps3 and Xbox, and what ever platform you make it on. The reason is because when you release on a platform you basically promise that further changes will be supported by that platform. This does not mean that they could not overcome this issue by changing specs or saying that all content post X date is only available for better platforms.

Not true. Technology is far more advanced these days. 1 game engine can support multiple platforms simultaneously. The only thing that limits/is limited by performance is the actual platform. A mmo that plays on PC/xbox/ps3 is going to have varying differences individually, but the core mechanics can remain the same OR be simultaneously patched/altered.

SE is a professional game developer. They dont need nerdy little forum geeks to tell them common market hardware specs n such.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

THEY DID MENTION that they are "optimizing" it for PS3... go READ en entire thing

you need to calm down......

you need to go read it again I am afraid, yes they are optimizing it for PS3, but if you read more, is also says highly configurable graphics on the PC end.

[Aenarion]

So if the game were to be ported to hte 360 as well... no problems whatsoever?

there will be problems of a different kind, namely Microsoft's restriction on its live network

Whenever you make a game for a specific platform, the game is limited in the future based on that system's specs. This includes the minimum requirements for the PC and Ps3 and Xbox, and what ever platform you make it on. The reason is because when you release on a platform you basically promise that further changes will be supported by that platform. This does not mean that they could not overcome this issue by changing specs or saying that all content post X date is only available for better platforms.

Not only that, but if it gets to the point where the hardware does become substantially outdated, the devs always have the option of pulling support and require a hardware update. Eve has done this, multiple times. When the Eve client started to get held back by legacy support for outdated gpus, CCP basically told everyone and their 486s to upgrade or gtfo.

lol your forums and your game???... you STFU and GTFO yoruself!!!

I have all the right to express my concerns.
I like the game and I just dont want to see it suffer or held back because it is being ported on an older system.

Learn to read and accept ohters ideas

you do have a right to express your concerns, but you also need to take your own advice and learn to read and actually educate yourself on how things actually work, instead of basing your fears on false assumptions.

[Zaireeka2025]

in fact.. the very FACT that they are making SMALLER ZONES, they just said it is becaue they need to adapt the game for the PS3. So since now... limitations are being present

The document doesn't state that there are smaller zones because of PS3 limitations at all. What they said was that the original zones were created to be seamless and huge, but needed a lot of copypasta for them to be so big (hence why there's so much of it... finally a sensical reason). They are just cutting the land up into smaller zones with more environments now to allow for less copypasta and more unique areas (like we asked for).

That's all it said... nowhere does it say the world will be smaller either. Chill out and stop trying to invent things to make your point.

[AranenAmarth]

The only thing that limits/is limited by performance is the actual platform.

That is what I said. Please read the entire post and try again.