Quote Originally Posted by DAOWAce View Post
Well now, I was just typing out a big ol' reply to this and I just had to misclick and have my entire post erased, so I'm just going to leave you with this nutshelled version.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=pc

Windows 7 > Vista > XP. 50%+ DX10 capable. FFXIV made with consoles in mind, not PCs. Consoles severely outdated with current and upcoming hardware, holding multi-platform games back, especially FFXIV; but then again it's made by a developer who has only made console games their entire career.

I'm angry at losing my post, yay.
I'm glad xp users finally started to think and move on. XP was a good windows OS, but it is way too old.
I don't think the PS3 version was at fault for FFXIV being DX9 though, PS3 doesn't support any DX version so it shouldn't matter.
Like I said in another post, in SE videos (like the imho silly "SE HQ infiltration" one where they showed Miqo'te), they were still using XP. If they develop on PCs running XP, then it's not a surprise they don't use anything above DX9.