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Originally Posted by vector
Well, like I said, I can see why you may not want to have a 360 I simply don't understand why you wouldn't like FFXIII going multiplatform. From the problems you tell me the console has there, I can see why you want to stay clear of it and indeed you don't have to buy the console now either because FFXIII is still coming to your ps3 either way. I see no loss here. I had my ps2 failed on me soon after I bought mine after launch, and it was indeed frustrating, although I just bought another one. All this news means to you is some more people will get to play the same game as you, and SE will make some more money.
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Because it just seems to me that people will waste their money with the Brick version of the game which will be stretched across only the Staff know how many bloody discs and all of the issues that happen with that particular console here and in other countries still is just going to be an absolute waste because around half or more are going to buy the console to only have what my classmate/friend had and was told by Microsoft that she was basically screwed.
Besides Sony products are generally easier and cheaper to repair in comparison to the side of the Bricks which we are continually told that we're screwed if we have just bought them.
What I'M pissed off about was the Staff repeatedly saying that they were not considering the Brick and the staff stated firmly that they felt that it would not suit their needs hence the exclusivity of the contract to Sony, which they had written up before the PlayStation 3 mock-ups had even finished production for the final product to be exported and personally from what I have heard from Jay
- EA Games - is that he's not impressed with that either and said and I quote "That it also gives the company a bad image again for going back for what they have publicly said via press releases, overall it's the fans that buy and are going to buy their products. It doesn't count for numbers of whatever console is installed by the fans thoughts do count because they are the ones who have stuck to the series and have been buying the products that fund the company itself but by suddenly changing from what their divisions' plans were against some of the Division Directors opinions just causes trouble inside and outside the company. Sure they may think "Cool, we can make more profit now!", that might turn out to not be the case now after an angry fanbase - the fanbase is huge by the way - possibly decides to have a mass boycott of the series. Imagine if across the hundreds or even thousands, hundred thousand fan sites all began a boycott against the series. What happens? Profit goes down. Profit goes down, Stock will also probably go down. It'd be a repeat of what happened before they joined with Enix. I mean hell, sure I have an X-Box and a 360 but I don't agree with changing ideas once it's been announced officially multiple times, especially if it goes against the majority of the staff and against the fanbase as two worst-case scenarios could happen: 1) The staff argue, resulting in them walking off the job, quitting or being fired or 2) the global/mass boycott I mentioned before. Seriously, I feel sorry for my mates over in the company right now."
Basically I have been trying to explain that to you but Jay has explained it perfectly well in an e-mail, to the side of what I said earlier - people have been comparing sales and installed console effects on other series such as MGS but it is in a different category and therefore cannot be used for a comparison. I mean, you stated that basically "More people can enjoy Final Fantasy" - they already could - Microsoft only had a small contract with them for Final Fantasy XI and that's all the staff all agreed on, the the side that people have been making unofficial ports for the Brick over the last few years, not to mention the other "devices" people have been adding onto gaming consoles' for so many years or have been using emulators and I know this for a fact (after having a group of Brick fans staying as guests at our house on multiple occasions much to our dislike brought out their consoles which is how I learnt of this) so you cannot tell me that people with either Brick console "could not enjoy the series" when in fact they already could not to mention in comparison to any of the Fabula Nova Crystallis projects being on the Brick - the staff disagreed then and are disgruntled by the announcement.
Too Long, Didn't read: I personally see investing in a Brick here and in other countries in which there are still many issues arising - as a waste due to the many problems and whenever those arise the buyers/owners being told that "Their warranty was void" and couldn't send it back for repairs, not even some game stores will accept the return after being told that even with a receipt and some people have been lodging complaints over these issues to consumer affairs (which I have just sent to my classmate to lodge her complaint).
To the side that I am very disappointed with the company as a whole for repeatedly making announcements that they would not consider the Brick console as it was not to their ideas, some staff members also personally did not want it either and others just found that they could reuse some programming from being used to programming basically on the PlayStation and PlayStation 3 instead of having to convert everything to work on the Brick meaning that it would have been overall easier for them as some of the staff use Mac/Apple computers instead of the basic Windows system for Crystal Tools meaning that either way they already had to convert things to work and now they have to convert more things - overall giving them an even larger workload to already overworked staff members.