FF14 possibly coming to XBox-1!?

[Jetstream_Fox]

I don't think Yoshi has any say in this. If SE's higher ups want XIV on Xbox because of money, it'll be on there whether Yoshi wants it to or not.

That's hard to say, the Xbox and PS4 are very simular hardware wise, so a port would be easier then anyone thinks. But the games economy and server status would be really tough. They'd have to shut the game down for awhile and revamp a lot of the flawed systems we deal with everyday to include the Xbox players. We think housing issues are a problem now, add a new console to the mix. The influx of new players would cause everything to skyrocket in price due to the lack of a monitored market. They'd have to step up their GM team and likely make the game cost more pre month. This current team can't even do anything now with the current team but bandaid fixes. He'd have to demand a bigger team, which now that I think about it, isn't a bad thing at all even if they'd have to do some intense maintenances.

[DragonSlayer45]

So Phil Spencer just tweeted something out, I'd guess that MS and SE are in talks already.

https://twitter.com/xboxp3/status/709480925038391296

Phil Spencer has done a fantastic job undoing the PR disaster that happened when the Xbox One was first announced and launched, so I wouldn't be surprised.

[Paladinleeds]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but as we discussed in another thread, I don't see this happening. Yes it would be great if we could (I'm looking to bring Discord as a 3rd party app to Xbox One for example, with the whole UWA thing, so voice comms between PC and X1 would be sorted, I'm sure someone could develop something for PS4), but I don't see it happening. Microsoft are still stubborn on Xbox and they still demand Xbox only servers remain available. How does FFXIV achieve that?

[Jetstream_Fox]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but as we discussed in another thread, I don't see this happening. Yes it would be great if we could (I'm looking to bring Discord as a 3rd party app to Xbox One for example, with the whole UWA thing, so voice comms between PC and X1 would be sorted, I'm sure someone could develop something for PS4), but I don't see it happening. Microsoft are still stubborn on Xbox and they still demand Xbox only servers remain available. How does FFXIV achieve that?

You didn't read the article did you.

[alimdia]

He's not completely wrong, there's something people are overlooking http://news.xbox.com/2016/03/14/lett...x-updates-gdc/

Of course, it’s up to game developers to support this feature, and Xbox Live players will always have the option of choosing to play only with other Xbox Live players.

The bold tells me they will still force devs to have XB1-exclusive servers, since they are promising XBL players an option to play only with other XBL players, something SE will not accept.

[Paladinleeds]

You didn't read the article did you.

I read the article over on Windows Central. And the comments there. And I've looked at other articles about it too. They're still demanding Xbox exclusive servers as well as shared servers.

[Jetstream_Fox]

He's not completely wrong, there's something people are overlooking http://news.xbox.com/2016/03/14/lett...x-updates-gdc/



The bold tells me they will still force devs to have XB1-exclusive servers, since they are promising XBL players an option to play only with other XBL players, something SE will not accept.

Then not a single company will develop a game for Xbox. No company will waste money to build a server to support all platforms just to build a exclusive server for Xbox only players. They will get stuck in a second PR hellfire for that and lose more money and sales. The only devs that might do that are the people at Microsoft Game Studios and maybe even 343.

[Conradus]

Phantasy Star Universe on XBOX 360 didn't require Gold (was sub based) and as such set the precedent so I don't see why would the hypothetical FFXIV release require it. I think it was also the case for FFXI?

FFXI on the Xbox 360 didn't require Gold either. But Microsoft is insisting on Gold for FFXIV and won't budge. Don't complain to me about it; talk to Microsoft.

[Maaizr]

https://twitter.com/xboxp3/status/709480925038391296

do et, Phil/SE - would love to see this.

[Mykll]

Yay the new gripe. We can't have good stuff because Microsoft Limitations. PS3 owners get a break.