What if (PS4 and PC become seperated)

[Kirsten_Rev]

What you think would happen to the game?
This mostly couple of stuff i been talking about with friends. Wanted to hear you guys opinion.

My is the game will become "meh".

Communities would fracture, the PS4 version would likely die off outside of Japan, and the PC version would likely die off in Japan.

If the game survived these immediate short-term consequences, I don't really think there would be much of an impact. My personal 'Top 10 Things I'd Like to Change' list for FFXIV doesn't feature anything that would be somehow limited, or even influenced by, multi-platform support. I mean, sure, I'd love HD textures, no loading zones, and some bigger maps, but none of those factors are pushing me away from the game, nor would changing them lessen the feeling of 'bleh' I have surrounding the next expansion cycle.

I will, however, put forward one caveat: if splitting the game across platforms meant Yoshi-P stepped down from his role for one or both platforms, I think we'd see potentially tremendous improvement for the version under a fresh set of eyes. I cannot recall any supposedly-premium MMO with less ambition than FFXIV has featured for the past four years or so. It feels to me like Yoshi-P and team brought the game back from the brink of death, only to turn it into a virtual bubble boy. Not that I think a split would be good even under this scenario, but in this case, I could see an upside if it survived the inevitable community fracturing.

Yoshida and the XIV team refuse to separate the community by platform. That's the main roadblock to getting the game onto more consoles since they need Sony and Microsoft to agree on allowing PS4 and Xbox players to play together. The console guys aren't relaxing their policies and S-E will not compromise to make Xbox Live-only worlds disconnected from other players.

Fixed it for you Sony has been the primary roadblock for years in terms of cross-platform play (see: Minecraft, Fortnight, etc.). It's arguable that's understandable given their status in the console world, but cross-platform play definitely isn't a Microsoft problem right now.