The end of Playstation 3 support.

[bass9020]

Textures have literally nothing to do with PS3 support, or PS4 support, or console support in general. FFXI was able to release a texture boost for PC while PS2 users still had the old textures because all that was needed was to replace the texture files in the Windows client. It's trivial, technically, but the problem is that actually creating all of the upgraded textures takes a lot of time (time, as in money).

Kindly direct your energy there instead of associating the lack of upgraded textures with a completely irrelevant scapegoat like console users

Sorry for being crabby but it's been years of ill-deserved persecution at this point. The guy who admits he has only been playing the game for five weeks telling half the playerbase to uninstall so that he can have a clone of WoW's floating combat text (who cares?) really gets my goat.

I know graphical settings isn't because of the ps3 since we got dx11 support. The thing is Yoshi has this obsession with making everyone equal regardless which is kind of annoying. If a PC can handle beefier features they should have access to them but then the console players will feel left out and complain, but honestly they shouldn't really be complaining. This is one of the many reasons why people blame ps3 a lot of the time.

[Serilda]

but then the console players will feel left out and complain, but honestly they shouldn't really be complaining. This is one of the many reasons why people blame ps3 a lot of the time.

Except that the people complaining are always the PC users even when it's the console users who are left out. We don't get to see the benchmarks, we don't get easy access to backing up and other niceties, we don't get to take lovely 4k screenshots of our characters reclining on the beach in Mist, but if I was to trawl the forums and tally complaints I would wager that moaning about console users vastly, vastly outweighs this non-existent moaning from console users about how the PC platform has certain advantages over consoles.

I seriously cannot remember a single thread about PS3 (or PS4) users complaining that the graphics can look better on high end PCs. We are too busy playing the game to fuss that our shadows aren't as shadowy as other shadows.

[bass9020]

Except that the people complaining are always the PC users even when it's the console users who are left out. We don't get to see the benchmarks, we don't get easy access to backing up and other niceties, we don't get to take lovely 4k screenshots of our characters reclining on the beach in Mist, but if I was to trawl the forums and tally complaints I would wager that moaning about console users vastly, vastly outweighs this non-existent moaning from console users about how the PC platform has certain advantages over consoles.

Like I said, not my problem. I agree that it isn't right to not allow console players to play but you know going in what you can and can't have because of the system. Many other games allow vastly superior graphic options, xiv should be no different.

[KarstenS]

We don't get to see the benchmarks

For what you want a benchmark? The console hardware is fix. The PC benchmark is used to check out the performance beforehand to see "is the PC still good enough or do I need to upgrade some parts".

Lets see what the job specific interfaces will bring us in kind of QoL.

Interface was a real issue with PS3 limitation. We remember the TP bar problems?

[Serilda]

All I said was that jeering at PS3 users for having their game taken away was mean-spirited (and misguided). I think the PS3 version has run its course too; I moved off it when they did the original PS3-PS4 upgrade campaign a few years back because the interface limitations (not to mention large scale FL) meant it was causing me frustration. Doesn't mean I can't feel compassion for those who aren't as fortunate as me.

On add-ons, these shouldn't even be necessary for the most part if they keep improving the interface with accessibility improvements. Some of which are currently being held back on PS4 due to a PC-only issue with graphics drivers. Yoshida specifically told us at Fan Fest that staying on PS4 instead of PS4 Pro was fine, whereas PC users need to get on and upgrade from all of the 32-bit toasters currently in use to stop holding the game back in future. PC limitations are real.

For what you want a benchmark? The console hardware is fix. The PC benchmark is used to check out the performance beforehand to see "is the PC still good enough or do I need to upgrade some parts".

It's nice to see the videos and play around with new character creation (in the case of Heavensward specifically). That's all. It's not the end of the world, just an example of something the PC platform gets that console don't (like the 4k screenshots of my character reclining in Mist which were part of the same example). The benchmarks aren't just blank screens which spit a score out at the end, right?

(Though the people who are really screwed here are the Mac client users, who have all the drawbacks of the PC version without any of the advantages.)