Final Fantasy XI could have been even more multiplatform than it is now, but it turns out that some dude at Sony quit. That dude was Square Enix's contact for the deal.
I know it sounds like a crap excuse, but that's how Square Enix laid it out to 1UP.
"Initially we were in talks with a representative from Sony [to achieve this], but it appears that that person quit," said FFXI producer Hiromichi Tanaka, inducing laughter from the rest of the team.
And Tanaka answered another long-standing question I've had: why not just port the PS2 version?
"[Current] PS3s don't have PS3-side PS2 emulation, and it doesn't look like Sony has any plans to address that issue. For that kind of thing to even be conceivable, it would have to be on a disc. Digital downloads wouldn't work for this. The disc has to be in the system for the emulator to work."
I suppose it's too late now. Couldn't someone at Square Enix have called someone else at Sony? Like the new guy who replaced the one that quit?
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2:04 PM on 12.08.2008
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To: New_Guy@sony.com
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Square Enix called. Something about Final Fantasy. Give 'em a ring after Bob shows you where the coffee filters are. Also Friday is Hawaiian Shirt Day. You can wear jeans too.
*japanese laugh*
Ahahahaha.....ha!
Might have been cool I suppose, but I guess we'll never know.
Oh how wrong you are. It still has a very large community, sure its not WOW size, but still very popular none the less.
How close that might actually be to the truth, we'll never know.
i was stoked that it was a Final Fantasy MMO, and sooo wanted to buy it... i've stood with it in my hands at Fry's more times then I care to admit. but then i would pull out my phone and start reading the reviews about it being ridiculously hard to get into, and the grind.. had to keep passing on it.
also i heard it was a "virtual wasteland" nowadays, like most MMOs that people grow out of. but maybe i'm wrong, i don't have first hand experience with it :)
I just wanted to comment on the concept of "MMO" reviews being completely ridiculous. FFXI came out a long time ago and has had over 20 updates, you really think the game is going to be the same? Anyone who tries to review a MMO at launch isn't qualified to be reviewing them in the first place. It is a fruitless endeavor.
Other than that, as a subscriber I can say the talk of a ghosttown MMO is pretty exaggerated. Perhaps in comparison to popculture phenomenons it is small, but it is still one of the largest MMOs around(it's bigger than flops like Age of Conan and can hold its own in a comparison against new titles like Warhammer Online). People do play FFXI, but not many people in gaming media or the blogosphere, so you won't hear much about it.
the ps2 version looked like ass then and even worse now.
my level 75 black mage died after a issue with billing they killed my guy after 3 months.
other mmo i have been able to recover guys and come back to the game years later.
so what the fuck you just lost a tons of players like me forever with your stupid policy I am never going back if you kill my dude.