MMORPG! When?

[Metalheadisme]

Originally Posted by pbparham

I got Final Fantasy XI for PS2 the day the launched it in the US... bought the hard drive/FFXI. I bought the contraption pictured above about three days later. It was such an easy interface that, when I later went to PC with the same game, I had great difficulty with the use of a mouse/keyboard.



I must respectfully disagree with you about this. There is no problem with MMPORG on a console. FFXI was, and is still, great on 360, and PS3 is much better than the 360 I bought my X-Box360 because of FFXI (I only paid $179 for the 360 due to some gift-cards I had to use, but the only reason I got one was for FFXI...I've always been a playstation fan).

There were thousands and thousands of console players in FFXI. There was an incredible spike in participants of FFXI when FFXI launched on 360. The only real problem with FFXI was the limitations graphically placed upon it by the restricted capabilities of the PS2. Yet, Square Enix has created a game playable on two different generation gaming consoles and computers as well.

I think that Sony and Square Enix will partner for the next Final Fantasy MMPORG, though that might be many moons from now. It makes no sense to close off console users from your target market.

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Hahahaha, when I read that post I thought of the exact item pictured above. I got FFXI for pc only because it had a more reliable internet connection on campus (long story- it was back when hooking up a console on a campus was difficult) but I got this controller for the ps2 the day everquest came out for ps2. That game was very true to the mmorpg genre, and people without a keyboard were rare. In fact, I was a max level necromancer in a raiding guild (Blood if you've ever heard of them- I was Fulgore) and the raiding content was comparable to PC. Long story short, MMORPG's are very doable on consoles... especially on PS3 where any bluetooth keyboard can be used.

Will I be playing them though? No, I quit after WoW (Where I was also Fulgore on Khadgar) when my responsibilities in real life became more important, haha.