Has FFXI been discontinued on PS2

[Xephar]

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Dang what a pain

[tdh]

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http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/shop/

Which one of the links, goes to =>

http://www.kbtoys.com/genProduct.htm...QIa377985A711B

Holy Cow you RAWK!

I've officially added your name to my list of heros! Your parade will be held next week on Thursday.

[lionx]

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Lol its np a Seeing as what Pai Pai said, if you cannot find any PS2 expansions its good to look at SE themself to see if they endorse it elsewhere glad to help....do i get a cookie? :3

[tdh]

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Lol its np a Seeing as what Pai Pai said, if you cannot find any PS2 expansions its good to look at SE themself to see if they endorse it elsewhere glad to help....do i get a cookie? :3

If you were on Lakshmi, I'd make you whole batch of cookies.

Still working on the parade though, might be able to get a Cookie Float in the parade though!

[Kurgan]

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I saw two copies of FFXI with the HDD for PS2 at my local Circuit City for $99 each.

[lionx]

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tdh >> xD

and 99 bucks each? wth is that? O_o thats totally a rip off.

[Kurgan]

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That's how much they had cost when they were brand new, and these are brand new units. It's a retail store, what do you expect?

[Kailea]

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tdh >> xD

and 99 bucks each? wth is that? O_o thats totally a rip off.

umm m not a rip off lol a 40 gig HDD and a game for 100$ that is acualy cheap :p

[Macht]

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umm m not a rip off lol a 40 gig HDD and a game for 100$ that is acualy cheap :p

In a way it sort of is a rip off now. HDDs are usually priced by their size and right now they are priced roughly at $0.95 per 1 GB. Also FFXI itself has been out long enough that even CoP has a price cut to it, so at most the PS2 version of FFXI new should cost like $39.99.

So 40GB*$0.95 ~ ($38 + $39.99) ~ $77.99

Either way though I'd still buy it. Never know how their marketing department would think or justify anything, and for anything with marketing or merchandise proving to do anything is always based a lot on it's purchases and more purchases is always better for it then less.

[Centurion]

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This may be just wishful thinking on my part, but just maybe the HDD we bought for our PS2 will be compatible with the PS3 when it comes out.

i know that if the PS3 is as backwards compatible as has been stated, i would be happy to reformat my HDD for use on it.

[kuu]

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This may be just wishful thinking on my part, but just maybe the HDD we bought for our PS2 will be compatible with the PS3 when it comes out.

i know that if the PS3 is as backwards compatible as has been stated, i would be happy to reformat my HDD for use on it.

Nope probably not, as spec indicate that the PS3 will be using 2.5" HDD. I believe the PS2 HDD is the 3.2 models.

In a way it sort of is a rip off now. HDDs are usually priced by their size and right now they are priced roughly at $0.95 per 1 GB. Also FFXI itself has been out long enough that even CoP has a price cut to it, so at most the PS2 version of FFXI new should cost like $39.99.

So 40GB*$0.95 ~ ($38 + $39.99) ~ $77.99

While FFxi has not lowered the price of HDD, the SRP for it when it came out was worth it. And no reason to lower it since it's inventory isn't a factor as production probably stopped.

And you're forgetting preinstallation.

While poor college students and teenagers will laugh off a $50bucks for simple ram installation, Reality is, nothing comes free, and preinstallation including having ffxi inside already that would take at least 2 hrs, with tech support, work out of the box, etc, isn't cheap. I would guess +$20-$40 on it.

You really can't look at without figuring in hidden costs, just like people who build their own computers, and then brag about the cost.

[Xulynshar]

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Good thing i can play on my computer too!

[Macht]

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Nope probably not, as spec indicate that the PS3 will be using 2.5" HDD. I believe the PS2 HDD is the 3.2 models.



While FFxi has not lowered the price of HDD, the SRP for it when it came out was worth it. And no reason to lower it since it's inventory isn't a factor as production probably stopped.

And you're forgetting preinstallation.

While poor college students and teenagers will laugh off a $50bucks for simple ram installation, Reality is, nothing comes free, and preinstallation including having ffxi inside already that would take at least 2 hrs, with tech support, work out of the box, etc, isn't cheap. I would guess +$20-$40 on it.

You really can't look at without figuring in hidden costs, just like people who build their own computers, and then brag about the cost.

True about pre-installation, but that is still subjective. The service section in our company willing takes huge hits especially when it comes to factoring in pre-installation. So pre-installation isn't always a guarenteed price tacked on to the final product, the cost of the software and hardware are guarenteed prices that are factored in the final product.

Part of what you state seems to sound like you are thinking that the HDDs fee comes with someone installing the HDD for you?? I got a little confused along the way somewere in what you are stating, but the price is just for the software and HDD not installation for it. I'm not sure if that was part of what you were getting at or if you were still focusing around FFXI being already installed on the HDD.

Also as far as time goes with loading FFXI onto a HD, 2hrs is if they went and installed it by using the disks and loading it 1 at a time like that. That is actually a long method when you can just flash a premade image onto the HDD which only takes a couple minutes with a good clean image.

[kuu]

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True about pre-installation, but that is still subjective. The service section in our company willing takes huge hits especially when it comes to factoring in pre-installation. So pre-installation isn't always a guarenteed price tacked on to the final product, the cost of the software and hardware are guarenteed prices that are factored in the final product.

Part of what you state seems to sound like you are thinking that the HDDs fee comes with someone installing the HDD for you?? I got a little confused along the way somewere in what you are stating, but the price is just for the software and HDD not installation for it. I'm not sure if that was part of what you were getting at or if you were still focusing around FFXI being already installed on the HDD.

Also as far as time goes with loading FFXI onto a HD, 2hrs is if they went and installed it by using the disks and loading it 1 at a time like that. That is actually a long method when you can just flash a premade image onto the HDD which only takes a couple minutes with a good clean image.

Bascially they can do it and you can't

Never said they're not making a profit, but it's not 1+1 here. And a machine that can flash on a industry conveyor-belt level is a sunk cost as well, though without knowing how many they made, vs how much they rented it and QoS it..it's only educated guesses on my part. But everything adds up.

[lionx]

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Psh still 99 dollars for such an old game that wont be supported seems like a waste of inventory space for the person selling it. Its better for them to get rid of it NOW with a cheaper price than keep it in the store for the same price.