PS3 a real problem or not

[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If you have an outdated PC, you can't play, or you can, but...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)

[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.

[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.

[Evangela]

try PS4 or PC versions and you'll see how much they're better than PS3.

[Eye_Gore]

I think in terms of the computer world, the PS3 is obsolete technology. The PS3's operating system was rough, it had trouble with large file size game saves. If anyone has played Skyrim or Fallout games on the PS3 you know what I'm talking about. Once the save file sizes starting getting large the console would implode, lag, freezes, hard restarts. I know everyone said it wasn't true, that it wasn't the console, but you could tell in patches of those games that the graphics were "dumbed" down to try and free up memory. Those games were large open world maps, the only loading was when you went into a building, dungeon, etc. The PS3 is almost at its life limit of 10 years. Start saving, a dollar here a dollar there, get there eventually and get a PS4, and you'll wonder why you were playing on a PS3.

There's always. Santa, Father Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, or whatever it is that suits your fancy.

[Antanias]

I wouldn't worry too much if they ever decide to drop PS3 support it will just shift to PS4 limitations.

And then the PlayStation 5 with XBOX Two users still wondering why Microsoft won't allow ff14 on their consoles >_>

[ZanzhizExaverion]

They couldn't add a HAIRSTYLE in FFXI because of PS2.

It will eventually reach this point with PS3, it's inevitable with the beauty of content they're creating.

[Sadana]

I really appreciate that someone posted the screenshot comparison of the graphics difference between ps3 and ps4. When I changed, I felt I was playing a completely different game!

OP, I doubt SE will offer a statement on how the ps3 limits development since they do not want to alienate a good portion of their subscribers. I too am VERY tired of hearing "ps3 limitations" as an excuse. It's a poor excuse since many play on low end pcs and, I'll be honest, my ps4 blows them out of the water on things I can easily tell like lag, loading times, and graphics. :/ Yet no one says "low end pc limitations". =_=

[ZanzhizExaverion]

Yet no one says "low end pc limitations". =_=

The issue between PS3 Limitations and PC Limitations is that PCs have a variable, and much larger memory capacity.

[xnonamex]

Memory! Every single thing that needs to be kept track of takes memory. Every single thing on your screen takes memory. Recently there was a post about the things community would like to be added to the UI. Reply was: there is a limit of how many things we can display in each section. Probs because of memory. The only reason ps3 has lasted so long is because the console is highly optimized peace of hardware that runs code that is meant only for it. But there are limitations how much you can gain just by optimizing if you don't have actual resources. (And not even talking about that there is no point in making graphics improvements because PS3 just can't take it).

Also someone was mentioning that they are still able to add some stuff even though it's ps3. Yes. Because they probably developed some stuff with overhead. But most important is that most of the stuff can be kept in storage while it is not used and loaded only when needed (loading times for PS3). While if you had abundance of RAM you could just put it in RAM and load it from there when you actually need it.

PS4 shall never have these issues. Because it is basically on par with high-end PCs nowdays and taking into high level of optimization that consoles have the FF14 will die before PS4 is pushed to it's limits. Another matter however is that as i've understood from devs is that there is some amount of data that PS versions actually need to store on PSN servers. And Sony has allocated specific amount of space to each user, where as PC players data goes directly to SE servers. So the only thing that i could see limiting PS4 is the PSN space (i don't even know if the space allocation are the same for PS3 and PS4).

Of course ppl might say - but you can give PC players more options and cut down on ps3. However, if you have ever written code you know what a time-sink it is to maintain several branches of software. You DO want to keep them as uniformed as possible else the maintenance and development just blows the roof. So implementing drastically different feature sets for PC, PS4 and PS3 would just not be feasible.

If one does not have the PC requirements for this game then he just can't play it in any reasonable way. (When you see a new beautiful PC game coming out and see the requirements and find that you wont meet them, do you expect the devs to downgrade the game to run on your machine? Would you be complaining on their forums about "I can't run this on my pc. Please make the game worse?")