New Jobs And Summon With Xbox360 Release!!!

[kuu]

I spend over $1k on individual parts alone (grafix card cost me 200 dollars by itself) to make myself a kick ass gaming machine. (just the box, not counting monitor or sound system)

You obviously haven't analyzed the specs on the next generation consoles.

Computers aren't game consoles, they play games, but not made for games.

xbox360 and PS3, and the still mysterious revolution are specialized for game consoles.

Xbox360 on game performance should beat any consumer based PCs today, much less your 1k computer.

The PS3 GPU itself is about as powerful as 2 of Nividia's top of the line PC cards itself, stated by Nividia's own Prez.

And even if you have yourself a top of the line AMD, The Xbox360 has a 3 core IBM 3gig processor, while the Cell for PS3 has a supposely even more powerful 8 core 3.2gig.

You can't really beat that for a good 2 years. Only reason they're so cheap because they're mass producting it.

[Dux]

Uber Console X and its 50 gigamegabustabit capability won't make items drop any easier, or make a bad player any better just because when they make their party wipe they can see it in more detail.

SE will definatly never ever create an Xbox only class or set of classes so thats meaningless too.

Perhaps the the $Box2 beta will have a new class that will not be avialable on the PC/PS2 version until it comes out officially but hey, who cares. You really gonna buy another copy of the game (which you may not even be able to use your official POL ID on anyway) just to get an unneeded class a few months before anyone else?

[Jonnyram]

Originally posted by Jei
Wonder if S-E will break their concept this time about bringing multi platform together. From the sentence "not found in the PC/PS2 version" it is possible too that they are talking about the next expanstion for all platform which isn't released on anything yet so it's still true about not found on PC/PS2.

This is not going to happen. For the foreseeable future, everything will be multi-platform. If it comes out on the PS3, they might start tweaking the graphics a bit for the 360/PS3/PC versions and leave the PS2 behind in that sense, but the content will be multi-platform for the foreseeable future.

I think the 360 version will have improved draw-distance because they'll actually bother to optimize the code. The PC version is ridiculously unoptimized, but since they have to recode things for the 360 anyway, they're probably making little improvements where they can.

[asphoRe]

Originally posted by Jonnyram
I think the 360 version will have improved draw-distance because they'll actually bother to optimize the code. The PC version is ridiculously unoptimized, but since they have to recode things for the 360 anyway, they're probably making little improvements where they can.

Agreed, I only hope that the FFXI Config itself allows configuring of more graphical options, like AA and AF(Anisotropic Filtering). Many ATI card users have to revert to very old catalyst drivers just to get the AF to work. I can sympathize with that because the game looks way too grainy without AF.

[Killerclown]

Re: New Jobs And Summon With Xbox360 Release!!!

wont believe it until i see it

[Kalledon]

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I saw several interviews during E-3 coverage that stated their would be an expansion coming out AFTER the Xbox 360 release. This expansion would include new jobs and they hinted that something was in the works for Summoners but they did not say if it was just more blood pacts or actual new summons (maybe they'll give spirits an overhaul.)

[kuu]

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I believe also that the interview is most likely false, they may as well tweak the current jobs instead of making new ones.

With things like this it's never false, as internally there will always have these things in development.

The real problem is if they every make it to the public. Things get push back, and things get scrapped, reused, etc.

It is still pretty far away, so development team and the management teams will put their heads together serveral times on the topic. We'll Get a clearer picture as we get nearer to xbox360 launch.

Usually things get revealed, like Sea, within about a month before launch. New classess might be a bit faster as those take much more beta time.

The fact that their mumbling about it means at least it's pass the concept stage. This means that there is probably solid ideas inside S-E and how to go about it.

[Kalledon]

Re: New Jobs And Summon With Xbox360 Release!!!

With things like this it's never false, as internally there will always have these things in development.

The real problem is if they every make it to the public. Things get push back, and things get scrapped, reused, etc.

It is still pretty far away, so development team and the management teams will put their heads together serveral times on the topic. We'll Get a clearer picture as we get nearer to xbox360 launch.

Usually things get revealed, like Sea, within about a month before launch. New classess might be a bit faster as those take much more beta time.

The fact that their mumbling about it means at least it's pass the concept stage. This means that there is probably solid ideas inside S-E and how to go about it.

Clearly we need to sneak someone in and get the inside scoop. =P

[:+:Pal[A]diN:+:]

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IF it is true, new jobs? cool. new summon? cool. But it probably wont be 360- only.

[pearlsea]

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The added content wont be 360 only, im pretty sure, id be stupid for them to make it 360 only unless microsoft will pay them to make the new features 360 only. and the point about making the graphics better on the 360, why cant they redo the code or what ever to improve it on the PC, i score 4600 on the bench3 and thats with a cheap $100 video card (but i have a AMD 64 3500+, and a GB of ram), so i can play the game with the settings maxed out, no there is no reason to be able to revamp the graphics if there going to do it for the 360 anyways.

[Enialas]

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if they do create a new class for XBox's beta test it'll be on Atomos server only. after the test, if it keeps in game, they'll upload it into the main system. xbox might have been the first to try it out, but if you get that expansion you'll be able to. to have a job on the main servers that only xbox users can play in a multiplatform game will be the biggest mistake SE will make, even if they decide only having xbox users playing is the direction they want to head.

so if they get to test "job x" before I get to, so what! I still haven't played PLD, WAR, MNK, BST, SAM, NIN, DRG, and DRK! When I started playing, CoP was already released and the only jobs available that I cared to play were RDM & SMN. Knowing this, why did I pick Elvaan instead of Taru? Elvaans look cooler, and Tarus are so cute they must be EVIL! Besides, comming from a D&D background I had some misconceptions of Elvaans.

I'm sure those who have been playing since japanese beta and have every job at 75 would be jealous, or at least defeated Maat for every job, but knowing somethings comming and you don't have to blow your gil to have it changed many times in a month, you should be happy noobs comming in are going to have thier hard earned gil wasted and lost when they transfer to a real server. jokes on them!

[silentsteel]

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YAY EVILNESS! *cough* who says we're evil? just cute ^o^.

[Caspian]

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Here's what I'm wondering: Will the expansion be released for ps2 and pc when it becomes available for 360 beta? Or will it only be available for ps2 and pc when the beta for 360 is over?

[TheGrandMom]

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Well I look at it like this, if the 360 is released late Oct or early Nov, shortly after that the beta will start. They said you'll be able to register for the FFXI after your purchase of the 360. So probably an online registration via Live. Now the beta should last about 2 months at least. So let's say the beta starts mid Nov and lasts till mid Jan., then they would have to compile stuff and fix things. Probably give it an in house test and then finalize and roll it off the assembly line. So around Marchish? for retail release? That sound about right?

But I don't think that it will be put out for the PS2. I could be wrong but I hope I'm not. The PS2 had its day and now its holding back its brethren. Time to move on to hopefully the PS3.

[Pai Pai Master]

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They won't cut off updates to the Playstation 2 version. Just because its sales weren't as spectacular as the PC version in North America does not mean the same for Japan.

Even so, it's not like Square Enix can give the excuse of limited capabilities on the PS2. If anything, the Xbox360 is even more limited when it comes to expanding Final Fantasy XI because of its measly 20 GB hard drive. How does Square expect to extend the life of FFXI by bringing it to the X360 when the hard drive will be halfway full once you're done installing it?