Consider FFXIV on XBox

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Peasantbox vs Xbox. No thanks. What next? Mobile port?

FFXIV on IOS & Android?

[Mika_Zahard]

They tried, i think microsoft wanted an xbox live subscription to be required to play since it was an online game, square enix didn't want players paying two subscriptions to play on xbox. Also i think microsoft wanted exclusivity and SE wasn't gonna do that.

Nvm i saw now its not needed, amazing.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Dont players still need to pay PS+ in order to play 14? or that doesnt apply?

Nope.
You pay SE the money to buy the expansions, and pay for the subscription. No PS+ necessary at all.


Just like Halo Infinite Multiplayer on Xbox
Doesnt require a Gold Sub to play

Nvm i saw now its not needed, amazing.

[Mika_Zahard]

Nope.
You pay SE the money to buy the expansions, and pay for the subscription. No PS+ necessary at all.


Just like Halo Infinite Multiplayer on Xbox
Doesnt require a Gold Sub to play

Yeah a quick google search show me that. Im surprised Sony allowed that. There's a ton of games i cant play multiplayer due not being able to afford plus.

[Karatecatgrl]

It's because this game was released before ps+ was a thing and was grandfathered when Sony made online gaming a part of ps+.

[ReynTime]

Yoshida had been in talks with Nintendo and Microsoft since late 2018 in order to try supporting their consoles. Both ended up not happening for different reasons.

Microsoft likely because they wanted it on gamepass, and Nintendo would have several problems, between mandatory micro sd, cpu speed limitation and the abundance of players who would ruin your day in duties with bad WiFi.

[Atreides]

Do some people in here don't know the difference between SSDs and HDDs?

From reading most of those comments no, alot of people don't.

[Kolaina]

From reading most of those comments no, alot of people don't.

Considering I’m the only 1 I recall who mentioned ssd, that’s not a lot of people to be referring to. As I only suggested that a PS4, with an ssd, which is proven to help with ps4 load times, may cause said console to out perform some of the potato pcs in the community…. I said nothing wrong.
Pc players…

[Alpheus]

It will happen eventually, I honestly think that was the original plan with the initial server expansion plans. SE was notoriously penny pinching with FFXI, so when YoshiP mentioned how they moved forward an already planned expansion of servers for NA DCs, that implies SE approved of the budget for it, and this was prior to YoshiP declaring that XIV would be spared no expense going forward as far as it's budget was concerned.

So with SE (previously) being notoriously stingy, yet would still approve of such a large sum of money, while it could have simply been estimated growth projections that moved SE's hand in approving that budget or that the amount of servers NA does already have, that that amount would have been untenable by that point in the game's life, but my gut feeling upon hearing that news of 7.0 server expansion plans would be accelerated, that made me think it is possible for 7.0 to be accompanied by adding MS console support to XIV. It had to have been something that was a big enough deal and something reasonably set in stone that by that update, there would be a need for more servers specifically for NA. Basically the only way SE would have been moved to approve that budget and plan, would have been because a rather unavoidable 'other shoe' was going to drop and adding support to another version of the game fits that vibe to me.

FFXI was available to play on PS2, PC, and Xbox 360. I think YoshiP would definitely do his level best to try and repeat that hat trick with XIV. Not as a matter of pride or anything but simply because that's the legacy of FF MMOs. I don't put forward this line of thinking to imply that XIV will be forever a flop should it fail to secure the same level of cross platform play that it's predecessor was able to achieve. I'm not saying that nor is it my intention to even imply that. Just that YoshiP is just that much of a fan of MMOs as a genre he would genuinely try and make it happen as a fan of the genre who is in charge of a MMO.

It was mind blowing to me when I began playing FFXI on the 360, knowing i was playing with players across multiple platforms, it really sold what MMOs are about, in my view at least, so I wouldn't put it past YoshiP to at least try to do that again, especially when in a position to call as many shots as he can. I just hope this acquisition with MS and Activison-Blizzard doesn't provide any roadblocks to any such hypothetical efforts/negotiations. Or for this recent season of game industry acquisitions causing companies to roll up and pursue to acquire SE or something equally insane.

[Slayer25c]

I am not talking about the latest systems though, i am talking basically about the game supporting the old systems until they start to cry under the weight of graphic demand.

I mean heck they supported playstation 3, 3(!!!!), until 2017. That thing was 11 years old by that point. And PC players have to suffer for it. The only reason we have so many many instanced zones is mostly cause...yeah...console limitations!

Because SE promise the ps 3 players they would get arr that is why it was on the console for so long. But now low end computers are holding it back