EQ2 on PS3 or 360?Follow

Are there any plans to release this game on the PS3 or 360?

Thanks.

You wont be limited to just a hand controller, USB keyboards should work. They do for EQOA and Phantasystar universe.

Now as far as porting to 360, I doubt it. Microsoft is the enemy of Sony. I also doubt it will be on the PS3, though more likely. I dont know how well a game that taxes high end pc's will play on a console.

Only downfall I see is...how would you send tells and whatnot with a controller? The consoles I beleive would run Eq2 smooth like glass but...you would be limited to having to push an arrow around and selecting different options. Opposed to just hitting I, J, P, CTR-R and such shortcuts. I would see getting a keyboard/mouse almost neccesary cause I wouldn't want to play Eq2 with no ability to output text. Main reason I'd love to play something like eq2 on console is just because the graphics would be lovly. I know ive seen such titles like Gears of War and those graphics are faaar smoother at their level than i know my pc could run it.

This excludes you crazy people who have duel core with nvidia 8x series cards though :p Those systems will probably smoke a console lol.

Only problem is it would suck if 10 of our guild members raiding can't connect to ventrilo because they're on a friggen PS3 :p

I disagree. I understand what you are saying, but you are also segregating a lot of gamers who do not have top of the line PCs. FFXI players can play cross platforms. Why not EQ2? To some of us it is not only the graphics that matter, but the gameplay. You don't need a $5000 machine to enjoy great gameplay. I still play FFXI on the PS2 every now and then and love it. Sure it looks best on the 360, but still it is the gameplay I enjoy.

I understand the Ventrilo thing, though. That would be bad. I feel that point, man.

Have you seen the visuals on a PS3 or 360 on an HDTV? And the games that are out now don't even use all the power the PS3 has to offer. Consoles might have fair to middling components, but the entire system is dedicated to gaming, especially to graphics, and the console equivalent of the OS, what little there is, is all in RAM. Look at how much your in-game performance improves on a Windows PC when you shut down all the unnecessary apps running in your system tray and what-not, now imagine shutting down everything that isn't directly related to the game you're playing.

That said, I'm not a big fan of console GAMES in general. They're way too twitch oriented and childish. If EQ2 ever came out on the PS3 we'd be flooded with teenagers and Norrath would start feeling a lot like Aseroth...


Edited, Jan 31st 2007 4:41pm by Lydiaele

The quality of the graphics has absolutely nothing to do with making a game run on a console or not. There are many, many more logistical factors in the big picture than “oh yeah it’ll look good”.

For one, there is a factor of storage space and the ever growing install size of MMOs as more and more expansions launch. For two, there’s the inerrant tendancy for all MMOs to cause tremendous hard drive fragmentation over the course of frequent patching. This is easy to address on the PC, but last I checked, consoles don’t have defragmentation software to address the performance hit that comes from exacerbated seek times due to file dispersion.

Worse, though, is the logistics have having to provide the various expansions on two different forms of media, in two different install styles. As I said before, Final Fantasy was designed to work on the PS2 from the ground up. It was ported to the PC. Taking a game that is designed for a PC style installation, maintenance and content delivery, and porting it to a console is a completely different animal.

Plus, in a recent interview, SOE said there are no plans and likely never will be any plans to bring EQ2 to PS3. They are flatly not interested due to the issues I’ve brought up.

Bottom line, supporting two entirely different platforms would extend development time of content tremendously without providing any extra content. For the relatively small percentage of people who want to play EQ2, and would rather drop $600 on a console than buy a PC for a little more, it is just not good business sense to go to the trouble.

I don't have a link but I remember the release well. It was released on the PS2 about year before the PC... in Japan. It was then released on the PC in the US (which at the time our MMO market was PC only, so this would seem to make sense, from a marketing perspective, if you're targeting the US MMO crowd with your game), then followed by the PS2 release in the US, followed by the 360 release.

You are correct if just viewing it in terms of the US but it was a huge game with many patches and even an expansion (Rise of the Zilart came with my box at release) before it even hit the US.

The other reason a lot of people didn't like the fact it was a port to the PC is because it always meant that graphics had to be dumbed down to fit in the memory footprint of a PS2, not a (much) more powerful PC. Why do you think there were only 6 or 7 different mob types in a zone? It was always attributed to limitations of the PS2.

In my opinion, I'd prefer them to stick with a platform and be able to develop the best game for that platform as opposed to having to hit a lowest common denominator. No matter what the game, which is why I feel it's best to leave EQ2 where it's at, on the PC.

meh, I still say the ones with PS3's playing Eq2 would be difficult as they can't connect to ventrilo, teamspeak or any common PC voice communication. That can be such a vital factor in raids too. :\

If they did I would hope the servers ever together like Final Fantasy XI.


Main reason I didn't ever use my copy of Phantasy star Universe was because of the server split.

And PSU sucks. I played the Beta version and was sick of the game the second day.



I would LOVE to see EQII on PS3.

It would be the only reason so far to buy a PS3 in my book.

I play FFXI on PC and Xbox360, normally Xbox360 because I like to sit in bed more relaxed for the many long hours of that game. 7 hours to look for a party on any DD job, oh joy.


I would also like to see Vanguard, and Neverwinter Nights on PS3.