PS4 trailer

[Laf]

SE stated itself - ~650K subs after subscription kicked in... obviously there are less ppl now... SE counting stuff same as EA in KOTOR..? Adding ghost players... temporary activating inactive accounts... so everything would look better to investors?

[RowanLauron]

SE stated itself - ~650K subs after subscription kicked in... obviously there are less ppl now... SE counting stuff same as EA in KOTOR..? Adding ghost players... temporary activating inactive accounts... so everything would look better to investors?

That's the good part thing about ARR. There are no investors. It's all SE's money funding this game. No investors to please, only the players

[ereskigal]

SE stated itself - ~650K subs after subscription kicked in... obviously there are less ppl now... SE counting stuff same as EA in KOTOR..? Adding ghost players... temporary activating inactive accounts... so everything would look better to investors?

Think you miss understand that statement by SE, the basically stated that FFXIV broke the 650k accounts that FFXI held not that it's at 650k.

[Laf]

That's the good part thing about ARR. There are no investors. It's all SE's money funding this game. No investors to please, only the players

and lets forget that SE itself do have investors and need to show good results to them... Good/bad results or even rumours effect their stock prices too.

Think you miss understand that statement by SE, the basically stated that FFXIV broke the 650k accounts that FFXI held not that it's at 650k.

actually broke 600K, not 650K... 600-700k were estimates by 3rd parties, so often just ~650K used. And if you want imply that subs numbers can be much higher... it's very unlikely, otherwise SE would be boasting about it, it would be mentioned in their latest financial report and servers would be full like after launch/first month.

[RowanLauron]

and lets forget that SE itself do have investors and need to show good results to them... Good/bad results or even rumours effect their stock prices too.

While true, at least they don't have investors who don't give a shit except about the $ who aren't even affiliated with SE.

As far as I know, the only people they need to please as far as business and profits is people within their own company. Which IMO is a great advantage. Can also be a great disaster waiting to happen, but since ARR has essentially saved SE financially, I don't think they'll be willin to give the game up anytime soon.

Which is good news for us consumers as that means they will strive to bring out quality to keep us active.

[Quiz]

SE stated itself - ~650K subs after subscription kicked in... obviously there are less ppl now... SE counting stuff same as EA in KOTOR..? Adding ghost players... temporary activating inactive accounts... so everything would look better to investors?

Every company does that.

[TomTom1968]

In a previous live letter, they stated that they plan to store the config file (character sets, skill sets, UI settings, macros etc.) on their servers instead of local config files like we have them now on PS3 and PC. Any news if this change will make it live before we are able to switch to the PS4 version? If not, a lot and I mean really a lot of players will have to setup everything from scratch and I hope this can be avoided. I for once have almost a dozen of characters and a boat load of macros and wouldn't look forward to do everything again. So i really hope SE makes this change in time.

[Mailstrum]

In a previous live letter, they stated that they plan to store the config file (character sets, skill sets, UI settings, macros etc.) on their servers instead of local config files like we have them now on PS3 and PC. Any news if this change will make it live before we are able to switch to the PS4 version? If not, a lot and I mean really a lot of players will have to setup everything from scratch and I hope this can be avoided. I for once have almost a dozen of characters and a boat load of macros and wouldn't look forward to do everything again. So i really hope SE makes this change in time.

just use a portable drive to copy the files over. I do this all the time with saved files when i use my friends PS3 at his house. I bring my save files over.

[Hysterior]

sorry for hijack but... are mouses like Razer Naga working on the PS4 version?
thx

[Cigaran]

sorry for hijack but... are mouses like Razer Naga working on the PS4 version?
thx

As a regular mouse, yes but the macro functionality doesn't work as of two weeks ago.