Force PS3 players to migrate over to PS4 and then drop support for it

[Ruenis]

People who can't afford a PS4 should be focusing on improving their financial situation instead of playing games all the time anyway.

I own two houses under my belt (just for your financial reference), and I don't even consider to buy PS4 in near future nor do I plan to acquire high end PC since I already got company issued laptop that can play DOTA2 just fine.

[Buddhsie]

I own two houses under my belt (just for your financial reference), and I don't even consider to buy PS4 in near future nor do I plan to acquire high end PC since I already got company issued laptop that can play DOTA2 just fine.

To be fair, I wasn't talking to people like you. I don't own a PS4 either, nor do I plan to get one before FFXV is released.

[Lord_Mylo]

Someone hasn't played FFXI in a bit. They dropped support for the PS2 a long time ago, only Japan has support and that's till they decide if they want to make a PS3 version of it or not, but PS2 is no longer supported in any region outside of Japan.

As someone who still plays ffxi along with ffxiv, I can tell that you don't play ffxi anymore. The ps2 support is NOT dropped, they just didn't release the last expansion in the USA for it. There's a giant difference between not releasing an expansion and dropping support. I literally logged into ffxi using the ps2 version just to see if it still works like 5 minutes ago, works like it always has. Also a little googling will inform you that while the USA PS2 version was not released, but there are those that have found a way to have the PS2 USA version updated to include the latest expansion. Also, SE isn't even considering a PS3 version of FFXI, they've already stated that, a LONG time ago.

So those of you that think they are gonna drop support for the PS3 are in for a rude awakening.

[Wildsprite]

It took me about two seconds to bring up my Windows Task Manager. Apparently I have 90 processes running at the moment, one of which being FFXIV. My physical memory usage is at a stable 45% out of 8GB of RAM. The minimum requirement for the operating systems that new PCs come out with is 2GB (if 64 bit, 1GB if 32-bit), though the OS doesn't typically use all of that RAM at any one point in time. 256MB is such an infinitesimally small number these days that it can't help but limit what can be done with the game. And I'm not just talking about graphics - I'm talking about even such things as basic UI features. So much of the horribly clunky UI functions (e.g. the bag, the hideous party UI, the menus within menus within menus) in XIV are because the PS3 version is already very much near its limit.

I'm not sure I'm explaining things well. Suffice to say, it's the 256MB that's the problem, not the 2+GB in PCs.

the UI was made how it is to be more uniform, across all platforms, they could change it to that horrible UI 1.0 had but honestly I would rather have this one.
as for the bag, I happen to like the way they redid it. I dont know what you honestly thought about that mess from 1.0 was better.
the party UI I wish they did more like the one on FFXI. so I do think that could use some improvement

as for the PS3 limits, those limits are not effecting the PC users dispite what you want to believe the graphics were dumbed down not for the PS3 but lower end PCs so again I stress the point, as long as SE plans to support the lower end PCs that is what will hold this game back if at all. not the PS3 version which will eventually end up slowly disappearing but not before sony stops supporting it. you can be certain we will get things on the PC that not even the PS4 will get due to limitations. but that wont hold the game back. it will still grow in time. I can see this game being released on the PS5(yes I know I'm speculating but the way sony keeps the naming it will probably be called that) provided it keeps a strong subscriber base

[ruskie]

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Thank you all for a couple of hours of free entertainment. Haven't had this much fun in ages.

[Gandora]

Can't believe ppl are stupid enough to make that kind of thread.. Great job.

I play on PC & my g/f on PS3 btw, and I might not be the only one in this situation, so PS3 private server? no.

[Wildsprite]

Can't believe ppl are stupid enough to make that kind of thread.. Great job.

I play on PC & my g/f on PS3 btw, and I might not be the only one in this situation, so PS3 private server? no.

PS3 will never get an official set of servers that are seperate. that you can count on. just look at the reason ARR is not on the XB 360/XB One, because they want everyone to be able to play the game together. so PS3 being seperate? nope

[MeiUshu]

People who can't afford a PS4 should be focusing on improving their financial situation instead of playing games all the time anyway.

I really think you should get out more and play less, maybe then you would understand a few realities of this world, realities that, your comment, suggest you really dont have a clue about.

I forgive you for your ignorance, not everybody has enough brain to use it before opening their mouth...err sorry, meant opening their computer to talk..err...sorry again..write sensible things, rather then stupidities.

Mei

[Buddhsie]

I really think you should get out more and play less, maybe then you would understand a few realities of this world, realities that, your comment, suggest you really dont have a clue about.

I forgive you for your ignorance, not everybody has enough brain to use it before opening their mouth...err sorry, meant opening their computer to talk..err...sorry again..write sensible things, rather then stupidities.

Mei

What's the point of your post? To just insult me? Tell me to do the exact thing I advised other people to do? How about you provide actual discussion rather than a pointless insult.

[Rekujen]

With all the advertising they did for PS3 support and promising the game to be ported over after 1.0...

good luck with that.

FFXIV will be on PS3 for many years to come and it'll be the root cause of most future updates not being possible... FFXI all over again.

15fps when fishing.. why? ps2 limitation.
30fps hardcap... why? ps2 limitation.
dropping frames to 10-15 during populated combat.. why? ps2 limitation.

You could have a computer with 5ghz and SLI 780GTX graphics cards and your PC will still drop to 10 fps because of PS2 limitations.