Regarding this windows central article

[Graylyn]

Yet, he is not square. He is not yoship. And he has only ever said "in talks" and "we'd like to". Never "it is coming" and certainly not "late 2020"


You assumed something based on a thing Phil said. That's on you.


And it just took 5 seconds to "dig" "ffxiv Xbox late 2020".

Google is an amazing tool.

The head of a platform in direct talks with another publisher who has more knowledge said this.

"In addressing the press at X019, Spencer said, "I wanted you to know, rest assured that we will be bringing that game [Final Fantasy XIV] to Xbox. We have a great relationship with Yoshida-san [FFXIV director] and we’re working through what it means to bring [to Xbox] a cross-platform MMO that they’ve run for years.""

This literally insinuates that it will be coming.

Also I was in a work meeting, so I couldn't easily pull up my phone while I had to give a presentation.

[Graylyn]

Eh, not really.

Unless it comes from SE ( Yoshida or the CEO ) them self, it don't carry much weight at all.

It literally does. Because these people would have more information then a PR rep or some low level employee. This is the head of one of the top three console platforms on the market

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The head of a platform in direct talks with another publisher who has more knowledge said this.

"In addressing the press at X019, Spencer said, "I wanted you to know, rest assured that we will be bringing that game [Final Fantasy XIV] to Xbox. We have a great relationship with Yoshida-san [FFXIV director] and we’re working through what it means to bring [to Xbox] a cross-platform MMO that they’ve run for years.""

This literally insinuates that it will be coming.

Also I was in a work meeting, so I couldn't easily pull up my phone while I had to give a presentation.

Insinuates. No date, no promise. "we will bring it" not "we are bringing it"

Things change. That's was over a year ago, and in July, you see what yoship said. At least 7 months later.

[White_Wolf_X]

It literally does. Because these people would have more information then a PR rep or some low level employee. This is the head of one of the top three console platforms on the market

Again, that is only phil saying it. which could just be a PR stunt for all we know.

Unless SE confirms 100% that a Xbox version is being worked on, it means very little.

[Fayt1203]

the thing is that Ms was never going to change the policy, but when they planed to srap the 12 month sub and make the 6 month cost the same as the 12 month just to force people to sub for the gamepass peopel got mad. They only change the policy because people where pissed and its only for free 2 play games and last time i check Ff xiv is not Fp2

[Ashgarth]

Plz no more console for xiv

For someone who's mad that they delayed Ultimate, you seem happy to cut the revenue of the game by about a half. That would surely help content development.

[Puremallace]

Here let me make this simple

Japanese game developer develops for a Japanese game console maker. Stop making this more difficult then it needs to be. They are obviously favoring their home base of Japanese citizens over everyone else as that is the most popular console in Japan.

You guys can make whatever excuse you feel like but that is the harsh truth.

Why in gods name would Square Enix of all companies open the door to XBOX in Japan? Do you not understand anything about how Japan works and their national identity?

I wish people outside of Japan would stop pretending we are considered when it comes to decisions with FF14.

[Jin-]

The new generation of consoles are more then capable of running the game for a long time to come

They probably meant that no more as in no more dumbed down games

For someone who's mad that they delayed Ultimate, you seem happy to cut the revenue of the game by about a half. That would surely help content development.

Proof? I'm willing to understand but without proof that sounds like a far fetched dream

[wereotter]

Here let me make this simple

Japanese game developer develops for a Japanese game console maker. Stop making this more difficult then it needs to be. They are obviously favoring their home base of Japanese citizens over everyone else as that is the most popular console in Japan.

You guys can make whatever excuse you feel like but that is the harsh truth.

Why in gods name would Square Enix of all companies open the door to XBOX in Japan? Do you not understand anything about how Japan works and their national identity?

I wish people outside of Japan would stop pretending we are considered when it comes to decisions with FF14.

Thing is that after this long, it's fair to want the game on XBox, they did release both XIII and XV on XBox when those titles launched. So this isn't an issue of national favoritism or nationalism. PlayStation was supposed to be in the game since launch, and was added at ARR, at the time, XBox was considered as a platform to expand into as well, except they ran into, at least at the time, unreconcialbe differences. Square wanted XBox players to be able to access the game without also paying Microsoft for their online access, and Microsoft wanted separate servers so XBox players could play independently of PlayStation and PC gamers. While these may have been addressed since, this is why it wasn't done years ago.

[Shofie]

This is something you need to petition Microsoft about, since it's their policies holding back an Xbox FFXIV port, not SE. You'd essentially be paying two subscription fees to play XIV though, and you'd be in a bubble with other Xbox players because of no cross-platform support, so it's less than ideal, and 100% on Microsoft.