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[kyuven]

I play on a $300 budget PC that came straight out of the box, no alterations or upgrades involved at all. The idea that FFXIV needs a gaming PC to run is honestly false; its requirements are so low that you'll have a harder time finding a modern PC that DOESN'T meet them.

See, this means very little as, again, the people who have trouble gaming on PCs are not going to have less trouble if the PC costs less or anything like that.
In addition, those that DO get PCs for gaming are hopefully not getting them for a single game (personally I got mine with FFXIV in mind, but i was using it as a benchmark since it has, graphically, everything I'd like in a game at this time) but rather a wide variety. The same with consoles.
However, a bargain PC that has no trouble running FFXIV may have difficulty running next year's super special awesome game. A PS4/Xbone won't. Yes you can tweak settings but again...the people who find their happiness playing on consoles might be completely deterred by tweaking graphics settings every time they want to run a game, and again you have to keep your drivers and other such things up to date to play newer games.
Don't get me wrong I personally prefer the versatility of the PC over consoles these days, but I'm also not kidding myself anymore to assume that just because someone opts for the console over the PC that they're less of a player for doing so. Everyone has different preferences, and thankfully this game caters to them as best it can.
I dunno about you but without the PS3+4 users this game was a ghost town the last few days.

[LunaHoshino]

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My assumption was that the people who are posting on these forums have some sort of computer with which they're accessing the internet, so I was just pointing out that FFXIV can be played on a computer that has minimal specs-- in other words, your ordinary, low-end desktop or laptop. Basically, if you have a computer (unless it's several years old or a netbook), you can probably run FFXIV on it if you can't use your console for whatever reason.