I'm not thrilled by the idea. WoW has proven that you can have a very successful MMO without the need to operate on a cross platform basis. I'm fine with FFXIV operating on both the PS4 and PC yet anything beyond that is going to force us to deal with various limitations, I feel. Furthermore I suspect it would increase the strain on the development team and the time it would take for each patch to go live. I suspect that this is probably something being pushed by Square Enix themselves rather than the developers...but that's just speculation on my part.

I'm also very wary about opening up the game to a wider audience at a time where there are severe housing shortages and some very bloated servers.