PS3 version day late dollar short?Follow

They are opening new servers for the PS3 players. Fresh servers, Fresh players.

I've not seen this?

It would be good to have the option, but IMO the hardcore PS3 players joining friends will have multiple 50's within the first month. The only things they'll be lacking is funds and raid experience. Not really a major disadvantage except those who will want to work their way up the crafting teirs.

To the OP, I've mostly solo'd every level I have via leves. I don't play that often, maybe 1 hour every other day and the occasional weekend where I'll get in 8 straight. If I had the time and dedication, especially with the new leve system, I could bang out one job to 50 every week solo. Once you get to about 40-45 you can jump in on groups that are spirit bonding and get crazy XP. Plus they will have cross server dungeons and other corss server instanced content. There shouldn't be a lack of people to level with.

Edited, Apr 19th 2012 8:50pm by Perrin

About the addition of fresh servers for those who wish to start over, I remember reading the same thing.

As for releasing the PS3 version "late," it certainly wouldn't have done it any better to have it released alongside the PC version, in which case we'd just have two versions of the same deserted game.

I'd like to mention that they have made an effort to make this game as "casual player" friendly as possible. The days of HAVING to find a party to level up are gone. You can just as easily solo from 1-50 as you can party up and level from 1-50. Yes partying will get you there much much faster, but there are plenty of players on zam that have chosen to solo and they seem to have fun as well. There is also the option to power level. Different people have different opinions about the idea, but yoshi-p has stated that he includes it for the sake of helping friends catch up quickly.

FFXIV (a 2010 game) being released in 2013 on ps3 the same year that the PS4( not sure the name) drops. Sounds smart all around.

In all fairness who says that the ps4 wont have backwards compatibility and they did state it would be an easy step to port it over to the xbox and they would prefer to wait till the 720 comes out. Which imo is the smart move.

Their wish just might come true.

They damn well ought to be.

Wasn't 1.0 like an extremely pretty version of a 2003ish game? Other than the graphics, it was a very not "2010" game.

I got a good laugh at this, thank you. Then I got a bit bummed because of how true it was.

Across 3-4 servers maybe. On Excalibur there's roughly 5k+ unique characters logged in across all times. Most we had online so far was 2-3 days ago at 8am. 1700+. There may have been 15000 pre-patch/update for the last one, but since the server merge a lot of people have come back.

Excellent. Thanks for the confirmation.

A logical and thought out explanation I like it.

On that note I just wanted to say that I honestly feel that this game feels more like a final fantasy title than FFXIII ever will.

Edited, Apr 22nd 2012 7:10am by Schmidtnurface

Good point. I was looking for current input via media on FFXIV since they started patching the game and I couldn't find anything. Also I feel that it would smart for them to find someway to make the cooldown on abilities fast and make tp gain a little faster to make the game slightly more fast paced. You could argue that the issue would be that the mobs would die to quick but then give them more health. I feel the biggest issue of FFXI is the down time between TP building. This is coming from a dude that just started playing recently and yes it is faster than FFXI but still relatively slow.

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Edited, Apr 22nd 2012 9:52pm by Schmidtnurface

Did I just have a stroke?

I'm still waiting for the PS3 version... but I don't think there's too many of us left either.

Yeah, I think that's when it's supposed to go live. I'm hoping since I'm one of the (i'm guessing) 27 people who are still waiting to play this on the PS3, that I'll also be able to beta test.

I don't mind the backward compatability so much, since I already have the PS3. In all honesty, I don't know if I'm very excited about the PS4. If they try to pull this crap where buying a $60 game doesn't actually convey ownership to me, I'm definitely out.

Edit: On top of which, you could probably build a pretty respectable gaming PC for what it's most likely going to cost new lol.

Edited, Apr 24th 2012 2:40pm by LebargeX

when did it come out in 2010? I thought it came out only a year or so ago.

1. Character Level shouldn't matter...it's a video game, not a race.
2. With the exception of some of the pre. 2.0 content, new and PS3 players will still be able to play the exact same content as those who began playing the game. Who cares if your first clear of Ifrit is a year after the battle was released...it was still fun either way.
3. SE already promised New servers for 2.0 characters if people wished to choose them.
4. The benefit of having high ranked friends,crafters and gatherers is nicer than people think. (remember running around in broken gears unable to afford/craft new ones?) This won't be a huge problem for the 2.0 crowd as they will have higher ranked players to support them.
5. The assumption: "everyone is already capped in everything/done everything" is very wrong.
6. Upon the 2.0 release ALOT of people will come back to the game/start playing. More than likely, there will be more new people than old players on every server. So the 'capped' players will be a small minority.
7. It is in the 'capped' players interest to help new people catch up as we need more buddies and capable ls members to do events. (One end-game ls on my server has been looking for a WHM to do top team raids for over a month and can't find one that fits them/isn't already committed to another shell)

My point, don't worry about what people have already done/are doing. Just worry about having fun yourself. So far, money isn't even that big of an issue in-game...even new players just starting now (or re-rolling) aren't finding it too tough to make a small nest egg. So if you think 'I'd really like to play FFXIV on my PS3", then give it a whirl.' The worst that could happen is you don't like it...which is the same risk you take with any other video game.

Edited, Apr 25th 2012 2:55am by Kinseykinz