BoringSupreez wrote:
I've been eying that one myself. I guess there's still a decent number of people playing FFXI in Japan?
More than in other regions apparently. NA region isn't getting the PS2 release, and XI in general was never released for PS2 in the EU.
It is the first expansion/add-on that the NA PS2 users haven't been able to get though, which does force them to swap to 360 or PC if they want it.
Technically, retail support for the NA PS2 version hasn't been there for a while. The last edition of the game released here for the PS2 was in 2007...but all the add-ons since then have been direct digital deals. More or less, content that you'd download as part of the updates anyway, and just pay to unlock (since it's mostly been reusing existing areas/models anyway).
The PC and 360 are both getting a new collected edition alongside the expansions. It'll be the first new retail version for the 360 since 2009. What does make me wonder a little is that the PC releases are going to be digital only, just like the most recent collected version was. It's not like they
need a physical release. I'd kind of think it's not necessarily SE's decision to not support the PS2 here, but Sony's.
