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Final Fantasy XIV, the reworked title from Square-Enix coming to PS3 and PC – and later PS4, won’t be released on Xbox 360 and Xbox One because of some silly Xbox Live policy Microsoft’s set in place.
I’ll let Naoki Yoshida, Final Fantasy XIV director explain it – he does a really good job at making the Xbox Live policy look pretty useless.
“The policy has not changed on Microsoft’s side,” Yoshida told RPGSite. “The main reason from our side is that I don’t want the community to be divided; to be split into two or more. For example, one player might be on the PC version, another might be on the PS4 version, and I’m playing the Xbox version – but we’re not able to join the same game servers. That is just… I just don’t like the idea. I disagree with it.”
“To be frankly honest with you, there are now so many mobile devices, smart phones, everything — why would you ever just stick to one platform from the hardware aspect? Just — make it open to everyone? That’s my opinion.”
And there you have it. Silly, isn’t it? The game’s out on PC and PS3 August 27th.
