PC, PS3, or both?Follow

Mainly on PC to start. I want to get a copy for PS3 but mine has been acting a little moody these days. Also it depends on whether you need to use the PS3 game key on my 1.0 account in order to play on that system. I've heard that this will be the case, but not sure if it has been 100% confirmed by SE. I already bought 1.0 and wouldn't mind the option to dual box occasionally on PC and PS3,but if I have to use the PS3 game key on my original account then i might pass on the PS3 version. I don't want to buy two (more) copies just to dual box from time to time.

Don't own a PS3, but I like my MMOs with keyboard + mouse anyway.

Both. Since my girlfriend plays too, and it would be nice to just sit on the couch sometimes.

I would have but my PS3 is dead and the funding for a new one is not in my future at the moment

PC for me, until i see how they will handle addons.

Do own both but I very much doubt I will buy for PS3 - for similar reasons to those people posting above. Only problem I have now is my daughter and son both asking to play my character all the time - they already addicted to Ni No Kuni, my wife thinks I am starting to corrupt them in my gaming ways (what she doesn't know is they are well past the corruption stage!).

PC with gamepad through 55" LCD

I am going to be playing on the PS3 only.

Any recommendation on a pad? I thought I read that the PS3 controller is compatible but I really don't want to invest that much into it. On the other hand I don't want to underspend and get something of inferior quality. Any happy medium for a quality pad?

I know back in XI, people used Ventrilo a lot. If you just have a few friends, Skype would work. There's something else out there now, Raspberry Pi? Wint will know more about that.

The VoIP standards right now for MMOs are Ventrillo, Mumble, and to a lesser extent TeamSpeak.

Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized computer that you can install a mumble server on.

Well Yoshi-P and his crew have been sporting the standard logitech gamepad to great effect. It's a lot cheaper than that in most stores though.

Then there is also a Snakebyte Ps3 wired controller for $10. When my girlfriend and I started up on FFXI again we bought two of these and they worked great on PC. However her right thumbstick ended up breaking somehow after a few months. Mine is still fine though.

Then there's always the wired 360 controller from Game Stop that I'm currently using for everything, even though I do prefer the Playstation controllers. It also comes in black and possibly other colors as well for $26.

I suggest the 360 controller from Game Stop. It functions perfectly with all games just like an official Microsoft one, but for $14 less. I rarely buy things from them, but this is something that I highly recommend for all PC gaming. Since pretty much all games that allow a controller on PC today support the 360 controller it makes setup almost non existent. IMO it's the best value for the price. My friend has had his same one for 3+ years and mine has been kicking fine for the past 6 months.

I believe Snakebyte was also the company that released the official FFXIV controller, however I don't know if it's quality is much better than the $10 PS3 model.

One last thing. Do NOT use a wireless controller via a USB cord (PS3 style) unless you research what it takes to properly run it on your system. I attempted to do so to play FFXI last year and it resulted in many BSODs, even with a program to run it. Getting a wired controller that is plug and play is much more convenient.




Edited, May 18th 2013 2:33pm by DamienSScott

I have it. I got it because I found it for the same price as the regular one, so I figured why not. It's very well built, though I can't say if that means its better than the PS3 model. The only thing I don't like about it is that the buttons are labelled 1-14 (or however many there are) so when you are trying to reconfigure what each button does in some games its incredibly annoying. Assassin's Creed 3 comes to mind. It took me forever to configure it what a PS3 controller would normally be, which made stuff like fighting off wolves (where you have to press triangle when prompted on screen) impossible. Once I finally figured it out it was fine, but it can be a bit of a hassle.