PlayStation 3 version: Why Bother?

[Yolteotl]

Sounds familiar.

Indeed lol

[Drygir]

Some households only have one PC and one PS3 yet multiple people wanting to play FFXIV. If it's just on PC in this scenario then one person is going to be left jealous and pissed off. Computers are expensive!!! It's no fun trying to share a computer either much less makes it impossible for those two people to play together in this situation. So yeah, I guess I'm just saying from personal experience, having a PS3 version not only makes sense but is something very muchly looked forward to!

[Kyri]

I also read how 360 was nixed to xbox live. I get mad with xbox live, I never really wanted it but I think it's silly I have to give microsoft another $60 a year to play my netflix when I don't have to with any other console netflix is a part of. That being said it would also fustrate me to pay them to play for 14 and im pretty sure I never needed Xbox live for my XI 360 disk.

[ispano]

I also read how 360 was nixed to xbox live. I get mad with xbox live, I never really wanted it but I think it's silly I have to give microsoft another $60 a year to play my netflix when I don't have to with any other console netflix is a part of. That being said it would also fustrate me to pay them to play for 14 and im pretty sure I never needed Xbox live for my XI 360 disk.

Because you don't need Live for XI, so far as i've understood it. Reason behind that is MS used it to help get the console name out and get more users on it. But now? They have a large user base, and want to keep their system closed... and paid for.

[Zumi]

Because you don't need Live for XI, so far as i've understood it. Reason behind that is MS used it to help get the console name out and get more users on it. But now? They have a large user base, and want to keep their system closed... and paid for.

Yea you just need silver account (free) to play FFXI, this was when MS was trying to get SE to make games for their system to they could better appeal to the Japaense market.

Fast forward to now where MS charges for everything, want to use Netflix, Youtube, or Internet Explorer, download most new game demos on 360 then you got to pay for live. SE couldn't even work out an agreement with MS for FFXIV so it can't even be released, they said it was live issues or something.

[Andrien]

While we're on the topic about Microsoft closed online policy. Even CCP, the company that made Eve Online tried making a deal with Microsoft to develop Dust 514 on the xbox360 but they couldn't.

[Laraul]

With the cards already stacked against the PS3 version, and with the history of FFXI showing that support for console versions will get axed well before the PC version, why is Square-Enix bothering with releasing the PS3 version of the game at all at this point? And why should players make the commitment of buying the PS3 version when history shows they'll just have to move to the PC eventually anyway?

DQX, an MMO for the Wii and Wii-U. No PC version. No need. The Wii and Wii-U will easy last the lifespan of the game. Which will be 10 to 15 years from now. Now PC gaming, that entirely depends on if World of Warcraft is still exclusive to PCs (and of course Macs). If WoW reaches the end of it's lifespan, or more likely moves to a different platform, PC gaming will take a nose dive and PC gaming will be no more.

Anyone whose says PC gaming will never die, let's talk in fifteen years and see.

[Valmonte]

DQX, an MMO for the Wii and Wii-U. No PC version. No need. The Wii and Wii-U will easy last the lifespan of the game. Which will be 10 to 15 years from now. Now PC gaming, that entirely depends on if World of Warcraft is still exclusive to PCs (and of course Macs). If WoW reaches the end of it's lifespan, or more likely moves to a different platform, PC gaming will take a nose dive and PC gaming will be no more.

Anyone whose says PC gaming will never die, let's talk in fifteen years and see.

See you in 15 years.

[Yolteotl]

Anyone whose says PC gaming will never die, let's talk in fifteen years and see.

I'm going to assume u mean subscription model MMORPGs and not what u literally said (although through this game i have hopes that the industry can reteach itself the benefits of subscriptions and focusing on quality), so that it could 'possibly' happen because of how poorly a vast majority of MMORPGs are being developed without any innovations and the idiocy of the PC players that brain-washed themselves into thinking that paying more than a subscription to play a game is F2P and somehow palatable.

Computer gaming has been around since the Apple II and will never die before consoles. Because as long as anyone is gaming they will at least game on PC because it's multi-purpose capacities.

Although don't get me wrong i think the loss of subscription MMORPGs would be one of the worst things to ever happen to gaming, proof that convenience is more important than quality.

[Andrien]

Now I know a lot of you might hate me for this;

PC gaming is already taking that deep nose dive. The fact that PC is trying to move into the living room now with a device known as the Steam box from Valve, proves just how much of an advantage consoles have in gaming.

There isn't much games out there to say I need a PC for, and one game is hardly enough reason to go out and spend $2000 just to have a powerful PC to play it on, because once upon a time there was Crisis, but now there is Crisis 2, and now even 3 is coming out soon for consoles.

I'm going to speculate and say PS4 and the nextbox is going to crush PC.