PS3 a real problem or not

[Remilia_Nightfall]

superfluous "boob jiggle"

It's not superfluous to me :/

[MissBrunHilda]

It's not superfluous to me :/

All right, I admit that I like being able to see that leather gives more boob support than cloth, and heavy armor gives the best chest protection.

[Remilia_Nightfall]

All right, I admit that I like being able to see that leather gives more boob support than cloth, and heavy armor gives the best chest protection.

..yes, I was exactly speaking of that. /nods

[Renik]

I'll give you a simple answer OP, the original game had open maps, and by open i mean, no zones. why do you think we have zones now? and that's not all, the game has a big lack of open world content because more players and events occurring in the open world would make a PS3 explode. And going back to beta, when we asked for more emotes and things like other mounts as companions, SE said no because memory limitations... well which memory? the memory saved in the servers for a few animations is not a problem, a PC doesn't have memory limitations unless it's too old, and the new generation of consoles are just like PCs. And last, SE already said they will drop support for ps3 in the future, most likely with the second expansion.

So yes, PS3 can hold the game back, while the limitations we have now are not directly caused by the ps3, but by a very short time to rebuild and launch the game, it will irremediably hold our possibilities from now.

[Cutie_McSnuggles]

I'll give you a simple answer OP, the original game had open maps, and by open i mean, no zones. why do you think we have zones now? and that's not all, the game has a big lack of open world content because more players and events occurring in the open world would make a PS3 explode.

I cannot facepalm hard enough every time I see people say this.

[Payn]

I'll give you a simple answer OP, the original game had open maps, and by open i mean, no zones. why do you think we have zones now? and that's not all, the game has a big lack of open world content because more players and events occurring in the open world would make a PS3 explode.

Actually as much as I absolutely loved the literally one zone world, that was one of the biggest reasons for all the problems we had. They also stated that they had come to the limit of how much land area they could have in the game (making any expansion packs DOA basically). So maybe if technology keeps going how it is, or maybe that's why they're working on that GIGANTOR cloud based world generator project they touted? I dunno. I just know that as much as I loved it... For the greater good it had to go
But I really wish they would add more open world dungeon zoned though. Open world as in new zones like FfXI, not as in new instanced dungeons.

[Felis]

That they change the seemless maps into zones they announced since 2011 in the first 2.0 announcement.

The current maps in FINAL FANTASY XIV are not only massive, but allow for seamless passage across wide expanses of the realm.
In order to maintain this seamlessness, however, we were forced to heavily reuse assets, resulting in static, repetitive areas.
To provide our users with areas that feel fresh and dynamic throughout the extended lifespan of the game, we are both revamping and redesigning area maps. We hope that this, in turn, will equate to increased opportunities for adventure.

• Abolishing seamless areas to allow for more dynamic map design
• Implementing at least three unique themes to each area
• Complete overhaul of enemy and object placement using revamped development tools

We will continue to balance and improve existing maps to ensure an exciting, stress-free experience while playing during the months leading up to the unveiling of the new Eorzea.

http://wdl.square-enix.com/ffxiv/dow...Outline_EN.pdf

And going back to beta, when we asked for more emotes and things like other mounts as companions, SE said no because memory limitations... well which memory? the memory saved in the servers for a few animations is not a problem, a PC doesn't have memory limitations unless it's too old, and the new generation of consoles are just like PCs.

This was also no PS3 limitation, because we have a lot of mounts and new emotes. it was more a beta limitation (don't bring all stuff before the launch).
And for other mounts as companions, they say no because there were no plans to bring other companions than GC Chocobo and self-breeded Chocobos (coming with golden saucer, i think) for this.

[Renik]

This was also no PS3 limitation, because we have a lot of mounts and new emotes. it was more a beta limitation (don't bring all stuff before the launch)

Sorry i wasn't clear enough, back then, people asked for emotes to interact with our companions, but SE answered that they couldn't give chocobos more animations because its memory range was already full, and again, this memory limitation exist only on low spec machines, aka PS3.

I cannot facepalm hard enough every time I see people say this.

I hope that facepalm is hard enough to put you brain to work, so you can tell us why are you mistreating yourself every time you see something like that.

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Once upon a time the PS3 couldn't even handle having a focus target. Literally just a tiny little UI element and the console was like "LOLNOPES".

The current maps in FINAL FANTASY XIV are not only massive, but allow for seamless passage across wide expanses of the realm.
In order to maintain this seamlessness, however, we were forced to heavily reuse assets, resulting in static, repetitive areas.
To provide our users with areas that feel fresh and dynamic throughout the extended lifespan of the game, we are both revamping and redesigning area maps. We hope that this, in turn, will equate to increased opportunities for adventure.

• Abolishing seamless areas to allow for more dynamic map design
• Implementing at least three unique themes to each area
• Complete overhaul of enemy and object placement using revamped development tools

We will continue to balance and improve existing maps to ensure an exciting, stress-free experience while playing during the months leading up to the unveiling of the new Eorzea.

Meanwhile, there are other MMOs out there that do exactly what they claim to have wanted to do, but being purely open world. You can have dynamic areas that are vastly different from one another in an open world environment, without needing to smash everything down into tiny zones.

Unless, of course, you throw a PS3 into the mix.

[Adrian74]

I played it first with my ps3. Because 'easiness', just download in PSN and go, not having to configurate my joystick and all that, etc... Then by curiosity a few weeks later also took it for my PC... Difference was...

BRUTAL

When I was in my PS3 I couldn't even dodge AoE attacks because the FPs were so terrible that it provoke a same feeling as being super lagged (YES, I KNOW, FPS AND LAGG ARE NOT THE SAME...) But I dare to say that FPS is the 'offline lagg'. If the frame rates is low, you see later an attack because it wasn't displayed the previous frames, ergo, you play with disadvantage...

Not even the worst latency between servers. (Canary islands to Canada? Cable goes first to Spain, then france, then london, then it takes the big cable to America.) made me ever eat AoE attacks. [Have to praise Square Enix for this, in most of games I always felt disadvantage because my latency issues, not happening in FFXIV: ARR]

Graphics were awful and game experience too... Does PS3 limitate the game? YES, just watch it yourself, play it in your PC and then ps3... (Except if your PC, that can be possible, is worse than Ps3)...

To be honest, go big or go home, because if you are using a PS3 you are playing like a second tier player and you are limitating the others. I only used the PS3 again when 2.3 came out because I wanted to, literally, LAUGH trying to kill a S rank with it...

\/ What's the difference between PC players and PS3 players? \/

If you have an outdated PC, you can't play, or you can, but... YOU DON'T LIMITATE the others... PS3 players do limitate the others, it is like having the same computer 10 years and pretend to run the latest games, no, you have to improve your computer or buy a new one, PC exclussive games don't hold on in development because YOUR PC has a limitation. It is not fair to pretend the rest would stay in low quality because you can't upgrade

People tend to think they are the center of the universe and they do rarely care about the others or the common interest... I'm a spaniard, I already did my post almost a year ago wondering why this game is not in Spanish, it probably is not in Spanish because SE can't afford to have more translators and stuff and it would delay the others.... Am I whining all the day because it, did I quit the game? Do I pretend to bother the rest for something they don't care about? No, I just understand that I'm just a part of a minority that should not stop the joy of the majority. I just deal with the fact it is in Germany and French but not in Spanish. Why for the same reasons can't people deal with the fact PS3 is outdated?

For everyone's sake, and your own, change to Ps4 or PC. You'll really enjoy this game even more after noticing A FPS Reborn.


PS: Sorry, I rarely speak this way, and I didn't pretend to offend anyone, but... If I'd be playing in PS3 and know that the others are suffering because me, I'd change it, well, in fact, I already did it. Problem with PS3 is that your limitation affects the others, and that shouldn't happen, the others must not pay because you can't upgrade your hardware, they are not guilty for it.

(I'm not native English speaker, sorry if the text is annoying to read or incomprehensible, or it has many many failures, or.. or.... It provokes misunderstandings)