Final Fantasy XIV NOT PS3 exclusive?

[heruamon]

forevercloud3000 said:
@heruaman

I could be wrong about needing XBOX LIVE as well as the sub fee for the MMO, but thats what I've been told by actual 360 subscribers. They could possibly be just ill informed(much to their dismay).

@Gnizmo
Uh...I know that XI came out on 360, but it didn't do to well at all. My thoughts on this was that it was probably due to the double fee(partially corrected by heruaman, who gives some facts on it not actually requiring Gold Memb.). And I say it did challenge WOW only because very FEW subscription based MMORPGs with actual depth and high level graphics survive. Only MMO's I have ever heard of actually keeping up was Everquest and FFXI. This is not to say that they have even grazed WOW's success, just that in comparison to all the failures they have done quite well. It is a very similar situation to the PSP and DS. DS has PSP by a mile, but PSP is the ONLY handheld to EVER survive against the mighty Nintendo Handheld brand. FFXI is PSP as WOW is to DS.

Unless Square Enix is blantantly posting wrong information on this matter, I'd say your buddies are lying about NEEDING XBL Gold.  I'm not saying they don't have XBL Gold, they just don't need it to play a MMO.  The reason WHY M$ charges a fee for XBL is because they incur the cost to maintian the system...all the developer needs to do is bring their stuff to plug in...it's painless.  With MMO, all M$ provides is to tag your account for possible Achievements.  I'd be very surprise if you needed a XBL Gold account for this, or any other MMO.