Please consider dropping PS3 sooner rather than later.

[Ashkendor]

Irrelevant , my original post said that I have issues trusting what they say, because they say one thing and do another. That was me showing why. No one can really convince me otherwise and is moot lol.

So because they decided that an idea they had wasn't so great (let's face it, we already have a tank, melee, and caster egi; what more do we need?) and decided to alter it in order to accomplish what people are actually after (different looking egi's, or even carbuncles if you wish; most people just want variety in the way the look), they're untrustworthy? I don't follow.

[Almalexia]

The PS3 version is little more than a PR gesture; it exists for no other reason than to fulfill the promises made in the 1.0 era. Without this context, it would have been ludicrous to release an essentially new MMO on a platform whose successor hit store shelves literally weeks later.

Sadly, we all have to suffer this goodwill for a few years more. I would guess when the PS3 reaches age 10 in 2016, SE will not drop support for PS3, but like FFXI on PS2, no longer release content or features with PS2 in mind.

By this estimate, PS3 limitations will exist at least through 4.0. ('A`)

[Azper]

Obviously they'll continue to support it through the 3.0 life cycle, but I can see it being dropped by the time 4.0 arrives. I started off on PS3 during the 2.0 beta and it was fine, because it was all I had at the time. But I mean, come on, the console is almost 9 years old now and its limitations are starting to have an impact on the rest of the players as well as the overall potential quality of the game.

[Laerune]

I remember reading a interview last year where someone from SE said that majority of the Japanese players are playing on the PS3 and not PS4. If this was a NA/EU game, the PS3 would probaly be dropped, but since its not, I reckon aslong as there are alot of Japanese players on the PS3, we will not see it dropped. My friend used to play FFXIV on her PS3 and she always had long loading, mobs going *Poof* in a middle of a FATE and many more issues. She has a PS4 now and its a new world for her.

For those that can not afford a PS4, you dont need to buy it within a month or two. Just save a dollar or a euro a day (like a previous poster said) and you will be able to buy the PS4 in a year, if you are lucky, the PS4 will become cheaper in a year and you will get it earler. My friend did that aswell, she has alot of bills and instead of buy lunch at a store, she made her own and saved the money every month untill she could afford a PS4.

Yoshida already said in a interview that 4.0 is already being developed and it will come on the PS3. So Maybe we will see the PS3 dropped after 4 years when 5.0 gets released, but right now I guess we are stuck with the limitations.

[Colorful]

I remember reading a interview last year where someone from SE said that majority of the Japanese players are playing on the PS3 and not PS4. If this was a NA/EU game, the PS3 would probaly dropped, but since its not, I reckon aslong as there are alot of Japanese players on the PS3, we will not see it dropped.

Yoshida already said in a interview that 4.0 is already being developed and it will come on the PS3. So Maybe we will see the PS3 dropped after 4 years when 5.0 gets released, but right now I guess we are stuck with the limitations.

Could you go look for any of these interviews, the latter one if you can only manage one? I remember Yoshida stating that PS3 support will be dropped at 4.0 at the earliest, and there was no guarantee that PS3 would continue to work then. There was nothing about 4.0 coming to PS3, that was for 3.0.

[Sentaryuu]

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And this is exactly why I can never say my opinion on this topic. If you don't like what I said, please don't reply. I don't know why I even bother. I'm currently using my parents money so I can't just up and buy a PS4 and they certainly wouldn't want to buy the game (both ARR and HW) for me again either. I can play it just fine on my PS3 without much trouble other than the occasional disconnect which is more due to our internet connection than anything.

Like I said, I hope it'll be a couple more years before it is dropped and hopefully I'll have a PS4 at the time. But at the moment it's all I have to play on.

[Kemas]

I played on PS3 at my friends place and the graphics are horrendous compared to my boot camped Mac- it'd be a favor to the PS3 users if they stopped supporting it lol

[Kosmos992k]

Oh goody, another pointless topic demanding that a significant feaction of the customers be dropped.

Aside from that, HW was obviously built with the current crop of low end PCs and the PS3 in mind as the lower end of the hardware spectrum. That's not going to change during the 3.X cycle, no amount of PC Master-race whining will change that. Come back in 2 years when 4.0 arrives, I doubt Ps3 will make that version's launch party.

[Iromi]

So because they decided that an idea they had wasn't so great (let's face it, we already have a tank, melee, and caster egi; what more do we need?) and decided to alter it in order to accomplish what people are actually after (different looking egi's, or even carbuncles if you wish; most people just want variety in the way the look), they're untrustworthy? I don't follow.

No, because they said one thing and did something different. The reasoning behind it means little to me. I'm not saying they're bad people and horrible this and that, I am saying I take what they say with a grain of salt now, because for the very reason you said, things can change and they have every right to do so, it is their game after all.

From there on out, whatever they say is pointless to me..because they can and perhaps will change it anyway.
I stopped following stuff the devs say back when they changed the whole Egi thing...there is no point for me to bother anymore. Stuff comes out, I play it..either like or not, that's that lol.

Also..I hate how this forum has a limit..lol stop makin me edit my posts dangit!

Could you go look for any of these interviews, the latter one if you can only manage one? I remember Yoshida stating that PS3 support will be dropped at 4.0 at the earliest, and there was no guarantee that PS3 would continue to work then. There was nothing about 4.0 coming to PS3, that was for 3.0.

I already posted that in this thread. o.O Are my posts not showing up or something lol T_T

[Kosmos992k]

I'd say drop it when FFXV comes out. Why?

1. People like me have been holding out on a PS4 until there is a game they really REALLY want it for. For me, that is currently two games: The Tomorrow Children (an old friend is on the dev team for that and I promised) and FXV
2. If the marketing team at SE has any lick of sense, they'll offer XV bundled with a PS4, much like they did with the PS2 and X
3. Along with XV, they can bring back a PS3 to PS4 upgrade campaign to encourage people to switch once they've purchased their new console for XV

Um, you do know that FFXV is a console game, not an MMORPG and has nothing to do with FFXIV right?