PS3 users can NOT use " focus target " at all ...

[Zfz]

Let's ignore the platform limitations for a moment.

I would like to ask the devs this:

Why do you not allow higher-end PC players to scale up their UI functionality? They have the hardware capability (computation resource as well as the display resolution) to handle things like text-based list inventory (in previous posts it was clear that memory limits and screen resolution is why we are locked into such archaic icon displays), things like side-by-side tooltip displays to compare two items.

Why do you not allow this on higher end PCs? Even if some lower-end PCs can't handle it, there should be higher-end PCs that can easily handle these and still perform better than the lower-end PCs.

Why don't you allow it?

1. You have hard data from client software that the percentage of players with good enough PCs are too few to warrant the development costs?
2. You simply don't have the development resource to do that?
3. You want everyone to have more or less the same experience regarding UIs?

Please, give us a final answer to that, instead of avoiding this question every time it is asked.

[BlackShroudMercs]

I believe the OPs question has been answered. I fail to see why people have taken to using this as a place to vent their hatred towards console players. If we were not here (ps3 players), the game could not survive, and the same can be said of you (PC players).

So, now that it has been established we need each other, let's all play nice shall we?

[Acaelus]

So, now that it has been established we need each other, let's all play nice shall we?

That's not what the internet is for.

[Dannythm]

I you are adding the Vita/PS4 screen share and remote play and all that features for the PS4 version, how about adding support for multiple screens on PC? Like being able to move elements of the UI to a secondary monitor and stuff like that?

[Livilda]

People who think this game overall is in any way being 'limited' by the PS3 version have clearly never played FFXI.

[Tiggy]

It was my understanding that if you turn off the keyboard's direct chat option that the shift + f command will now work. Does this not function on ps3?

[Iecerint]

It was my understanding that if you turn off the keyboard's direct chat option that the shift + f command will now work. Does this not function on ps3?

You can use that to do keyboard shortcuts to certain things, but focustarget still doesn't work. The macro command also doesn't work. It makes it really tough for healers at endgame.

[Iecerint]

It's really fantastic to get some official feedback based on this. I appreciate your sharing it with us.

[sinfull]

Never needed to use the auto focus while in combat and I'm on ps3. I have no trouble knowing what target the tank is on I pay attention to the screen and see which one he is currently tanking. Also another good solution is to get the tank to use the mark function and say which target is first, second, third etc to attack.

[ChickensEvil]

Greetings!

I'd like to pass on another couple of comments from Hiroshi Minagawa regarding the UI.

Camate: Regarding the whole "PS4 video card is capable of 4k, so there is no comparison to high end video cards"... ummm what? "high end" video cards have been able to push 4k resolution for quite some time now. It has gotten to the point where any serious benchmark to compare graphics cards doesn't even care about 1080P anymore. It is ALL about the 4k tests. The PS4 graphics card is about on par with a GTX 580 AT BEST (although you will likely see a bit better performance since the OS they are running is severely stripped down and such, but theoretical performance that is where it is at.)

Focus target? PS3 users can do this very simple trick. Focus down the one being hit.

Why do you even need the "focus target"? Seriously! I play on the PS3, am a lvl 50 CNJ...

So are we referring to what you do by picking a target and pressing X? If so than it's working fine if not idk what ya'll are going on about

Never needed to use the auto focus while in combat and I'm on ps3.

Turn 2 ADS - Passing the Allagan Rot. Clearly you have all either NEVER done Turn 2, or have never had to be responsible for passing it around... There would exist 2 workarounds to this problem... Everyone moves the rot from themselves to the next person in line... since you see your own timer, you know when it is about to expire... problem there is, either A: you cannot ever give it to a healer (not possible since you need at least 5 people to pass this around), or B: you would have to have outrageously amazing healers and tanks to have them be able to interrupt one of their heals to pass the rot. The second workaround would be using a voice communication program (nevermind that PS3 players would need a laptop or phone to run something like teamspeak, to "workaround" this...) and people would have to call out their own timers, to tell someone when they need to move. Problem here is, that fight is already having a lot of people talking... people calling out the interrupts, tanks calling out the provoke/aggro switches... we already have a lot of people trying to talk over each other in this fight, and you want to add in the mix the other half your group ALSO trying to talk to call this out? why? when you can just tell someone to set the person as their focus, watch the timer and then move.

There are plenty other useful times to have focus, but this is the one time where I would say it is required... or at the very least HIGHLY inconvenient... to the point where you are GOING to cause needless wipes trying to workaround this.

Was one of the suggestions "please use the PS3's universal dictionary?"

Dictionary =/= Translator... Just because I say "Hello" and an english dictionary picks up on that word, doesn't make it automatically be "Hola" in spanish. The translator is there specifically for communication with people who don't speak the same language as you, not as some master "auto-complete" dictionary... although, I can understand using it for that, and also the confusion.