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    Nope with this comming, and the mini-expansions.

    And the promise from square to all the players. And that they still support it like a baby.


    Its not going to shut down, they are even developing all sorts of new content for it.

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    This is a dumb idea, unless they significantly scale up the graphics to the point where it actually looks good on a PS3 it's just a waste of time. Otherwise their only target consumer base are people who traded or sold their PS2 for a PS3 that can't play PS2 games. They'd be better of porting the game to PSP or something.
    720p 1080p native would be nice. And its not a dumb idea actually. I for one would love to play it on my console. even rather than on my PC because this game really is meant to be played on a console.

    A good resolution, perhaps a little AA or not. Its good eneugh for me.

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    I really don't think it's the right MMO to be ported on consoles for the western market.
    Also I can't imagine the 360 and PS3 users will join together and dance in roses slaying monsters happily while having a lovely little not-at-all biased chat about the upcoming E3.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hyarume View Post
    720p 1080p native would be nice. And its not a dumb idea actually. I for one would love to play it on my console. even rather than on my PC because this game really is meant to be played on a console.

    A good resolution, perhaps a little AA or not. Its good eneugh for me.
    My point still stands, all you have proven is that you fall into the target consumer base which is extremely small. The idea might not seem dumb to you because you fall into the demographic of somehow not owning a console capable of playing FFXI, would rather not play on the PC, and somehow would pay for the exact same game again just to play it on the PS3. That particular demographic is so small that everyone else who plays the game would consider it a bad idea in lieu of using the time spent to make the game better some other way.

    The fact is, unless they completely re-haul the graphics engine that FFXI uses, it's not going to look much better on the PS3 and will just be a waste of potential. While playing FFXI on the PC and using windower to go above and beyond what the game was meant to display, and using my GPU control center to set the anti-aliasing to 12x, the game still didn't look that great. No amount of anti-aliasing will be able to stop my eyes from bleeding while running around South Gustaberg. The "shimmer" of all the lines drawn into the rocky walls is just simply too bad to fix with anti-aliasing, no matter how great it is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PencilTrick View Post
    My point still stands, all you have proven is that you fall into the target consumer base which is extremely small. The idea might not seem dumb to you because you fall into the demographic of somehow not owning a console capable of playing FFXI, would rather not play on the PC, and somehow would pay for the exact same game again just to play it on the PS3. That particular demographic is so small that everyone else who plays the game would consider it a bad idea in lieu of using the time spent to make the game better some other way.

    The fact is, unless they completely re-haul the graphics engine that FFXI uses, it's not going to look much better on the PS3 and will just be a waste of potential. While playing FFXI on the PC and using windower to go above and beyond what the game was meant to display, and using my GPU control center to set the anti-aliasing to 12x, the game still didn't look that great. No amount of anti-aliasing will be able to stop my eyes from bleeding while running around South Gustaberg. The "shimmer" of all the lines drawn into the rocky walls is just simply too bad to fix with anti-aliasing, no matter how great it is.
    There are guides for how to tweak your settings correctly and on a good pc you will need that.

    If you have 1024 X 786 you can set the backgroud res to .. 2048 x 2048 (example)
    That already sharpens the game up ALOT. personally
    The game is really weird when it comes to settings at PC, but there are guides.

    But I preffer Gameplay over graphics

    The games potentail isn't small it peaked this aprill. most active users ever in FFXI. that should mean that its still not too late for this game.

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