How many still use PS2 for FFXI?Follow

Curious to see how many here still log onto their ps2 for final fantasy xi gameplay. I still use mine and hope that SE will give some support for it for at least a few more years.

Edited, Jul 16th 2013 3:21pm by Glitterngld

I do! However, I want to play Seekers of Adoulin so I will be switching to my Xbox in the near future.

I have it near the PC when I either Dual Box or the kids are on Xbox360 Minecraft. I just came back after 2 years so I haven't bought the expansion yet.

I notice SOME problems.

Port Jueno on JP peak hours is unplayable.

The Mog Bonanza NPC locked me up yesterday even though everyone was still moving. Had to kick the boys off of minecraft to log in from another terminal to boot PS2.

When you use a keyboard to move it sometimes changes cameras when you autorun. Probably user error.

At some point, the Sony servers through which they are routed are going to be shut down. SE can either volunteer to take over Sony's data center infrastructure for the remaining JPs, or they can tell everyone to suck it up and get an Xbox 360 (still sold and supported) or a PC.

It's like how Microsoft is sunsetting Windows XP. They've been trying to get people to migrate to Windows 7 for years (and now Windows 8) but at some point it just isn't feasible any more to continue to support a 10 year old piece of software. They gave out a hard deadline of April 2014 for the final security patch back in 2010. That is plenty enough time for software vendors to get their stuff up to snuff for Windows 7, and for businesses to do a proper hardware refresh cycle (which should be based on 3 or 4 years for most places. I think 4 is becoming more standard now.)

1) It's actually very easy, and it's nice to have two separate screens
2) My computer is too much of a dinosaur to run more than one instance of FFXI; my PS2 actually performs better in certain instances in the game than my PC does (although there are also cases where the opposite is true)

I remember how much I wanted to play FFXI on PS2 when it came out, only to find out the PS2 version would not come to Europe.

That was 10 years ago.

I do! I had quit playing for a few years and came back recently and was shocked that my PS2 still worked!

I haven't in about 5 years, I could I guess since I got the old brick in the basement. My PS3 can play PS2 games, and XI is on it, but I haven't used it or updated it in about 3 years either. I went to my laptop because I travelled for work a lot, and could bring XI with me, then naturally went to the PC after using keyboard for so long.

Then I stopped playing all together. I guess I could still claim to be a PS2 hold out though...(makes me wonder how much old school PS2 would sell for now though, its been almost a decade since they went to slims.)

Edited, Jul 19th 2013 9:46pm by rdmcandie

Not that much actually.

Edited, Jul 19th 2013 9:48pm by rdmcandie

I still use it from time to time. (Great for the current login campaign.) My only gripe is the additional pop-up when loading that tells me SoA isn't installed on it. I get it, SE! I can't play SoA on PS2. Stop rubbing it in my face. :P

To be fair, the PS2 (well, mine anyway) does still have its fair share of issues:

- Severe framerate/lockup issues in places with many character/mob models (as in, the game starts running about as slowly as it possibly can short of completely freezing up, like 1 frame every 5-10 seconds or so). The most common offending zone is Port Jeuno, although the same thing can happen in situations such as Dynamis and Voidwatch fights.
- The NPC lockup issue (where you talk to a NPC, but its dialogue either takes an incredibly long period of time to display on the screen or doesn't display at all, and you're stuck in place and may be forced to reboot the system). This has been an on-and-off recurring issue; right now it seems to be not occurring.
- Cutscenes that "load" different areas, which is a practice that mainly took off with WotG missions/quests, immediately cause the screen to go black when the transition occurs, and crashes the game. This was especially problematic if the cutscene in question occurred automatically upon entering a certain area (which is also something several WotG quest cutscenes did...) because you were unable to do anything about it; as soon as you logged back into the game the cutscene would just load again, the crash would occur again, and you'd be stuck. I don't know if this still occurs following their "blackout countermeasures", seeing as how my alts have gotten their missions done by now XD

There's likely others, but these are the big three.

I don't remember how many times I disassembled my PS2 to clean/adjust the laser, but it still works. Sometimes I start it up and update it, even though I don't play on it. Sentimental I guess.