Playstation 3 Limitations going forward

[Yoninxi]

Now that we know PS3 Limitations is real and here to stay, how do you think this will affect the game moving forward? The rendering issues become highly problematic in instances where a moderate number of players are within viewing distance. Hunts are near unplayable, CT/ST are laggy, Odin/Behemoth are near unplayable, and FATES used to be a nightmare when it was the goto EXP source.

I'm scared this is gonna , if it already hasn't , influence what content is released down the line for users on all systems. Will we see less "Massively Multiplayer" content and more small party instances based content because the ps3 can't handle it?

Thoughts?

[WHS]

I don't know the real limitations on ps3. Everytime I tried to play the one I had the image was too damn big for me to enjoy and see everything on screen at once. I moved back to pc till ps4 came out. Now I play on them both exclusively. I do think the ps3 gets brought up alot and not just by the user community but by the ui devs in particular when deciding on which changes they can make. We have ST and CT, they were designed around the ps3 being here so I don't see that a limiting factor. I do see large scale battles with huge amounts of ppl and graphics maybe being a challenge for the ps3 to handle. Not from my own experience but from what I have heard players mention on these forums. When you speak of Massive which did you mean? CT/ST or the latter large scale battle fields with 1000+ players and npcs on them?

[Yoninxi]

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More open world content many people can participate in. If you played XI stuff in the vein of Besieged or Campaign. Many people in ST/CT I've ran into complained of rendering issues with people popping in and out. Designing a modern game around 512MB of split RAM can't be good going forward

[DragonSlayer45]

PS3 players can just get a SSD and see Odin, Behemoth, Hunts, etc. without it being a lag fest if they can't afford a PlayStation 4 or high-end PC at the moment. Its by far the best investment you can do if you want to play this game with little to no issues on PS3.

By the time Square Enix drops support for PS3, I'm pretty sure most, if not all, players would have migrated to PS4. I don't think it will hinder how Square Enix designs content if they already implemented content which PS3 players can't do.

[Yoninxi]

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You're implying SE Will ever drop PS3 support. If you look at their other MMORPG, they're still supporting the PS2. Lately it runs terribly and the content for people on other platforms has to be gimped because of dev admitted "ps2 limitations"

[Shioban]

You're implying SE Will ever drop PS3 support. If you look at their other MMORPG, they're still supporting the PS2. Lately it runs terribly and the content for people on other platforms has to be gimped because of dev admitted "ps2 limitations"

They already stated they'd consider it sometime after the first expansion depending on the player numbers.

I want to enter and leave the cities seamlessly again.

I miss that.

[HReincarnate]

They've said the ps3 will definitely be supported until the 1st expansion (next year) but made no promises beyond that.

SE wants to give this game a long lifespan, as shown in the live letter with the planning for 4.0 beginning, so I think they definitely do intend to cut the ps3 of in a year or two.

[Xmbei]

Yoshi stated in a past interview that in a future xpac, it was somewhere around 3.0-4.0 he was talking about, they will drop support for ps3. Plus they make it on PC first then tweak it down to the console level and equipment limits. So going forward it will be fine, unlike FFXI that was built on PS2 and then ported to PC so it was backwards.

[KenzieLynch]

Oh give it up. You had your PC exclusive elitist MMO, it couldn't run on most PC's and it flopped.

Those PS3 'limitations' are people of whom a large part, maybe the largest, supported this game and allowed it to become a success in the first place. The game was built with PS3 and low-end PC's in mind to begin with. You obviously have no idea of the consequences of what would be if the object of your agenda was to come to fruition.

[Yoninxi]

Junk.

You assumed because I made a thread about PS3 limitations, that I was on PC? Interesting. I started at 2.0 launch on ps3, saw how crappy it ran during fates, then quit til ps4 launch. Never played on my PC for extended periods because it ran it at 10 fps. Also you're quite wrong. It was developed for PC then ported to ps3.