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theprof00 on 22 August 2009

I forget how it worked in past FFs, but I think mainly the discs held FMVs and certain scenarios/ character models that were not accessible at different parts of the game...



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Cthulhu on 22 August 2009

Well compromising a game in order to fit and play its not good for that game



Mistershine on 22 August 2009

Is it not possible for it to be like Blue Dragon, with the entire game world on every disc but different FMV?



makingmusic476 on 22 August 2009
Gnizmo said:
makingmusic476 said:

Like I said in another thread, the game being "smaller than Lost Odyssey" (seriously, does that even matter? =/) probably has to do with Microsoft's licensing fees per disc. It's no surprise that the only 4-disc 360 game was published by Microsoft, thus negating the licensing fee. The first 3-disc game was also published by Microsoft (Blue Dragon) and there has thus far been only one other 3-disc game (Star Ocean 4).

There is no licensing fee per disk. There never has been, and there never will be. The quote was mis-intepretated, and has been clarified many, many, many times now. There is extra cost to using the third disc due to manufacturing only. There is no extra licensing fee for more discs.

Since when?

And why would maufacturing costs be an inhibiting factor for the number of discs used?  DVDs cost less than 10 cents a piece when mass produced.  The guys at id are probably spending more on the BD-Rom for the ps3 version of Rage than they would on 3 DVDs. 



Zizzla_Rachet on 22 August 2009
NSS7 said:
SE is not fair. They give X360 Final Fantasy XI, Last Remnant (still no release date), Infinite Undiscovery and Star Ocean IV but PS3 got nothing. It was good FFXIII going multi but why not others. Those titles should sold better in Japan.

First of all...FFXI was going to XBox..and since MS told SE when th 360 was going to come out..the put it on 360 instead...second...Last Remnant is a console exclusive if i'm not mistaking...and SO4 came out a few months back...I don't know if this will make it to PS3...or not...And finally....MS OWNS Infinite Undiscovery...Yes DooD they do.....Don't hope to Get an MS IP on PS3 just cuz  SE is involved...

It's totally fair...



 



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Unclean on 22 August 2009

I want japanese language track :



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Garamond on 22 August 2009

Any disc-swapping not SO4 style is fine. Still, I'm pretty lazy so I'll end up getting the PS3 version instead.



Gnizmo on 22 August 2009
makingmusic476 said:

Since when?

And why would maufacturing costs be an inhibiting factor for the number of discs used?  DVDs cost less than 10 cents a piece when mass produced.  The guys at id are probably spending more on the BD-Rom for the ps3 version of Rage than they would on 3 DVDs. 

Since shortly after the news broke. It wasn't as widely reported since it wasn't sensationalistic. Also, it was combined with a different news story to make it easier to miss. I had a hard time finding the updated article, and I knew what I was looking for!

Relevant quotes and links:
"Microsoft is not being dickheads," he said. "It was a simple kind of miscommunication. Microsoft does not charge a royalty per disc, but there is a cost of goods that goes along with manufacturing. "

http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1001



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gansito on 22 August 2009

I don't really care if it comes on three DVDS, i'm buying the 360 version :)



Chacron on 22 August 2009

I actually liked changing discs on the old PS1 Final Fantasy games, gave you a sense of achievement : D