Please consider dropping PS3 sooner rather than later.

[Astral145]

If you can't afford to play an MMO you shouldn't be playing at all.
They need to drop both consoles, consoles hold us PC gamers back with their limited hardware, I want my HD textures! I want 1.0 style graphics again, pretty soon we will be having a thread like this for PS4, so why not scrap them all together?
PC MASTER RACE!

Because the consoles are bringing a large player base to the game.... And no the PS4 will be able to handle this mmo for several years to come and when the PS4 becomes outdated the PS5 will be ready to take its place.

[FreeLancer4]

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

Whoosh. That's the sound of something going over your head.

In case it wasn't clear enough, he was making no comparison or connection of FFXV and XIV. What he was going for is that if people were to buy a Ps4/XV Bundle they would now own a PS4. Around the same time they could offer a Free PS4 Upgrade to those people who now own said PS4 if they were playing XIV on PS3 Prior.

[Kosmos992k]

Whoosh. That's the sound of something going over your head.

In case it wasn't clear enough, he was making no comparison or connection of FFXV and XIV. What he was going for is that if people were to buy a Ps4/XV Bundle they would now own a PS4. Around the same time they could offer a Free PS4 Upgrade to those people who now own said PS4 if they were playing XIV on PS3 Prior.

Woosh... the sound of the point flying past yours. The target audiences are not the same. marketing a FFXV PS4 bundle might ship some consoles, but it's not going to make dropping PS3 support hapoen. FFXV and FFXIV are very different games with different audiences. Sure there is some overlap, but not enough to make even a dent in PS3 usage for FFXIV.

[Colorful]

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

Reread the post that I quoted. We're talking about 4.0, not 3.0 (which is what your linked article was talking about). I'm well aware that they have no concrete plans to support PS3 after Heavensward.

[WHS]

I see them dropping ps3 support in NA for sure once the Hardware is no longer being sold new @ retail. I see the units available in my area dwindling but they are still being sold brand new. Like they did with ffxi and the new expansion, once the ps2 was no longer sold in NA they dropped support for it. I see the same thing happening with FFXIV by that time.

[Averax]

If you can't afford to play an MMO you shouldn't be playing at all.
They need to drop both consoles, consoles hold us PC gamers back with their limited hardware, I want my HD textures! I want 1.0 style graphics again, pretty soon we will be having a thread like this for PS4, so why not scrap them all together?
PC MASTER RACE!

Yeah, not everyone can afford a top of the line PC either. And nobody will spend over 1k just to play one game.

The PS4 runs the game the same if not better than the average user's PC. ( i think PS4 settings are somewhere between desktop high and maximum settings)

So if you're saying that the PS4 is also holding the game back, then you're basically throwing away the average user's PC as well.'

Also, 1.0 style graphics, while nice, were just too much, and even the highest end PCs struggled to run it. A potted plant having as many shaders and polygons as a player character was way too much. Once the PS3 gets dropped, we might see higher texture quality, our full character animations again, more character customization options, among other things. But we'll never get full 1.0 graphics ever again, because they were an absolute mess.

[Almalexia]

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.

DX11 support was released simultaneously with Heavensward. SE clearly has an interest in advancing the tech behind their game--as well they should, being one of the few, successful subscription-based MMOs on the market--and the PS3 is a significant hurdle in that pursuit.

[Kahnom]

where's my popcorn ?

[Kathyz]

Yeah F**k them we already have their money from the expansion, now lets make it imposible to cancel the subscription from theirs account, Profit! (?)

[Gilraen]

The game can be improved graphically and its gameplay mechanics if they drop PS3. PS3 really holds it back. PS3 users had a huge free upgrade campaign which got extended too. They will be able to focus on improving the overall game away from the PS3 limitations and also further improve the PC client, PS4 version and the mac version.

If you really think they will improve the graphics just by dropping a console then you should really stop holding your breath else you'll faint. People had been demanding this with XI for literal years and Square never did and probably never will. WoW is doing a graphical upgrade but that's more to catch up with games like XIV and it's only on PC. Sure, PS3 players had a chance (it ended in May) to upgrade but you talk like everyone has a PS4 now, a pretty gross assumption there.