Gnizmo on 03 June 2009
| forevercloud3000 said: Although it may not be necessary to have a Gold account while playing an MMO on live...still, Many people WILL be subscribers to XBOX Live Gold. Whether you need it for FFXI or not, if you play ANY OTHER multiplayer game you ARE paying that fee, so really it doesn't even matter if it is required for FFXI(or FFXIV in the future). Hard Drives also are not mandatory with the most popular 360 model. An MMO will assuredly require an install of some sort (FFXI has a 9.5gb install for 360). Who knows what FFXIV will demand. That means any 360 owner lacking a harddrive will need to go purchase one. thats 70 bucks plus, not including the fact u have to pay for the game(60bones), pay for Gold Live if you had any other MP games(50 a year, I highly doubt all who want FFXIV are going to cancel their GOld memb. JUST for it), and then the monthly fee. All of this equals a gamer paying more charges if they want to play FFXIV, when they could be playing it for much less. This could be the strongest reason for FFXIV being PS3/PC exclusive... |
This woukld almost be a compelling case on its own. Unfortunately SE already released a MMO for the game despite that so none of it really matters.
