Yoshi-P says discussions about FFXIV on Switch and Xbox One are "Positive"

[DeaconMoore]

I see a lot of people claiming MS said that you have to have a paid Live account to log in..where did they say this, if anyone has a link would be appreciated!

May have changed, doubt it, but even with other services like Netflix thru the xbox you'd need an active gold account to use. Want to multiplayer online, gold account, want pandora, gold account. Want to do more than chat and get updates, gold account.

[RiyahArp]

May have changed, doubt it, but even with other services like Netflix thru the xbox you'd need an active gold account to use. Want to multiplayer online, gold account, want pandora, gold account. Want to do more than chat and get updates, gold account.

When FFXI was on the 360, you only needed a silver account, since it charged a subscription. I don't know if they would change it.

[Paladinleeds]

When FFXI was on the 360, you only needed a silver account, since it charged a subscription. I don't know if they would change it.

Yep, but that was because Microsoft was desperate to gain a foothold in Japan. Nowadays, Microsoft has resigned itself to the fact it's not getting a foothold in Japan. As a result, they've gone to their current practices (AFAIK, FFXI was the only exception they made). Microsoft's way seems to be "If it doesn't work our way, shut it down" (see Windows Phone and Band not doing good enough for Microsoft and them shuttering both.), so expect Microsoft to shut down Xbox before they change their tune on this Xbox Live.

[Canadane]

May have changed, doubt it, but even with other services like Netflix thru the xbox you'd need an active gold account to use. Want to multiplayer online, gold account, want pandora, gold account. Want to do more than chat and get updates, gold account.

They did allow XI to be played with a Silver (free) account. But that was likely their desperation of attracting the Japanese market at play, and won't happen again now that they realized they probably won't be getting into said market very easily.

[SieyaM]

May have changed, doubt it, but even with other services like Netflix thru the xbox you'd need an active gold account to use. Want to multiplayer online, gold account, want pandora, gold account. Want to do more than chat and get updates, gold account.

Netflix can be used without a gold account, at least on the 360 now. I haven't tried to use it on the Xbox One without being signed in yet but I have used it on my 360 without ever signing in to any profile.

[GunksFoy]

May have changed, doubt it, but even with other services like Netflix thru the xbox you'd need an active gold account to use. Want to multiplayer online, gold account, want pandora, gold account. Want to do more than chat and get updates, gold account.

Someone might have beaten me to this, but this is not true. I use my Xbone as a media box for my bedroom and do not have gold. Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, Spotify, HBO, all work without Gold. Multiplayer is gated. Chat is not gated, just limited to (i think) 4 people. Updates are certainly not gated behind Gold. You are very misinformed.

Not really, there's not much you can do to upgrade low spec laptops that barely run the game right now, again like I said just because someone is on a PC doesn't mean they will magically get better performance. Its not just consoles holding the PC back they are never going to tune the game exclusively for high end PCs even if the PS4 wasn't a part of the equation.

The difference between adding Switch support and allowing low-end PCs/laptops is the software side. For PCs, you simply write the game for Windows, and have adjustable settings from max-shit to max-awesome. For example, my 7 year old laptop runs the game at minimum settings, while my 1 year old desktop runs it at the absolute maximum. With consoles, however, you need to write a version of the game specifically for each console.

To summarize, the Switch/PS3 may be as powerful as some of the abysmal rigs PC players are using, but they require resources and developers to create the game. While no matter the PC, you only need 1 version.

I'm not a PC elitist by any means, I own consoles as well and actually started this game on PS3, but these are the facts of it.