PS3 Players are Handicapped

[NaliaBrown]

Not every PS3 player agrees, but a lot of us that played PS4 do I think.

Also, You have 8 months to save if they cut new content for PS3 in 2015. If you can't save enough to get it $400 spare in 8 months, you might want to reevaluate paying to play this game.

Oh please. This game costs me $15/month. I worked it into my budget - I just don't go out to the movies anymore. I can save $400 in 8 months, but I don't really want to spend it on a video game console. I have more practical things to spend money on. You want to know why I don't have an extra $400 laying around? Because I was sick a while back and was hospitalized for 2 weeks and missed a month of work. I'm still paying off the medical bills. I'm planning on buying a house this summer, so I'm saving money for all the expenses associated with that. I have a cat who needs dental work done. My car has started making squealing noises, so I'll have to get that checked out. I would rather do any of those things than buy a PS4. Stop judging my finances and accept the fact that not everyone gets tons of money for Christmas. A PS4 is not a priority for me, but I would like to continue playing this game in my free time.

[KogaDrake]

every PS3 player that I know that has a PS4 and played beta this weekend cant bear to play on the PS3 now that beta is over. Many have said they will just take the week off (but maybe set coil times) and wait for early access for PS4 this weekend. Many PC players who have PS3 and used PS4 conversion or just tried PS4 beta are also playing but cant wait till PS4 is out for good.

PS3 does not stop you from doing anything, but it does make things more difficult than it should be. PS3 players need to play at a higher level to be competitive in some places (coil4, titan, levi, ...) and a slightly below average player on the PS3 can be a hinderance in some of these fights (they dont have the player skills to make up for the shortcomming of the system, or make the needed adjustments to compensate for the poor system). These same ppl playing on PS4 would still be average or below average, but you will see a large improvement in their skills (saw some friends who use PS3 on PS4 this weekend magically start dodging things they always failed to).

It will not be 2.3, but I would suspect 3.0 will be the last ps3 supported content. I'd like to say it would be sooner, but they are already developing 3.0 with PS3 in mind so I do not see them dropping it from current development that is already underway.

[Noahlimits]

It will not be 2.3, but I would suspect 3.0 will be the last ps3 supported content. I'd like to say it would be sooner, but they are already developing 3.0 with PS3 in mind so I do not see them dropping it from current development that is already underway.

Doing so would cost them millions of dollars. You're not aware of just how many people would rather quit playing then be forced to buy a PC or PS4 to continue playing.

[DragonFlyy]

I have been on both sides of this discussion. I can tell you if you had of played in beta over the weekend you would say the same thing. PS3 is at its limit and this game needs to move on. Its so bad that PS4 even has a hotbar feature for holding down both triggers. (Apologies if PS3 has it too. I refuse to play PS3 anymore so I wouldn't know.)

I play on a PC and a PS3. By your stance, they should drop console support altogether because the PC will ALWAYS be better than a console.

[Vladislav]

I think for SE it will be foolish move to drop PS3 anytime soon , too many players not want or not able to buy PS4 due "Country" difficultes , or just other things (like FFXI players who played & still plays on PS2 and those players represend a good amount of "Subscribers"). So in my option if SE want get game dead faster ok go ahead and burn PS3 support , i don't care tho i sit on PC lol .

[Staris]

People who can't afford a PS4 or a PC should be more worried about finishing school or getting a real job instead of gaming.

It's like the people I see from the ghetto with expensive sneakers and Iphones.... priorities huh.

[Ryihito]

Dropping support doesn't mean you can't play after they do. It means they wont get new content. If you aren't at endgame then it wouldn't affect you.

So it WILL effect me. I'm sick of these stupid topics. Just what is the point? You're on PS4, I am on PS3, so why do you want to stop me from playing?

I'm not getting a PS4 anytime soon and I am not playing on PC, I am perfectly happy with PS3.

[Noahlimits]

People who can't afford a PS4 or a PC should be more worried about finishing school or getting a real job instead of gaming.

It's like the people I see from the ghetto with expensive sneakers and Iphones.... priorities huh.

It's not about being able to 'afford' a ps4 or PC. It's the fact that people think ps3 players should be forced to spend 400+ on a system/pc to play a game THEY'RE ALREADY PLAYING. If they don't mind the imperfect gameplay, why does it bother you so much? Their sub money counts just as much as yours. Don't think because you're on ps4 or PC it makes your sub money magically worth more than theirs.

[Ninix]

I suspect PS3 support will be dropped around the release of the second expansion. They have already committed to supporting 3.0 (expansion 1) and it wouldn't make a lot of sense for them to suddenly drop support in the middle, so I don't think we'll see PS3 support dropped or phased out until at least 4.0.

That being said, the people saying that the PS3 isn't holding the game back at all are delusional. It's incredibly impressive to see what the team has done under the extreme technical limitations they're working under (eight year old hardware with one sixteenth the amount of general purpose RAM of a low-end laptop or PC manufactured in the past few years) but there are limits to what they can do, and until they decide to phase out support for the PS3, every single new feature or system they seek to add to the game has to be specifically designed around "how can we make this work on the PS3." The memory budget for just the user interface is so strict that the team cannot even afford to display the Focus Target UI without disabling a few other UI elements. What if they want to add other persistent UI elements as part of a future expansion or patch feature? I'm sure they've left a little bit of space in the memory budget for future features but what happens when they run out of even that?

Yoshi-P has wisely decided to not hold the game to supporting the PS3 forever, because he knows that to do so would hold the game back in the long run. And MMO development is all about "the long run". At the same time, support for the PS3 won't be going anywhere anytime soon, and you can be sure that when they make the decision to drop it they'll let the playerbase know *far* in advance.

[OrganizationXIll]

You really need, and I mean REALLY need to get to grips with the fact that there are other people other than yourself that are happy on PS3 and don't want or need to switch. Not everyone who plays this game does end game content or extreme primals. Even if they do, maybe they don't mind a bit of lag here and there.

This all boils down to you having bought a PS4, and somehow think it should be law that everyone else do the same. PS3 players pay their monthly fee just like you do and I do not see why their right to play the game should be taken away. Just enjoy your game and let others enjoy theirs for crying out loud.

I'm not saying that. Please keep up.