FFXI No Longer Playable on PS2

Via Final Fantasy Online: Warcry, a link to the official FFXI site stating that starting on May 1st PS2 service will be withdrawn. Playstation 2 players will no longer be able to access the Square-Enix title, as according to the site: "The limitation of the Playstation 2 has restricted and held back certain developments to the game and its continued support would make future updates and content limited." Update: 04/02 18:02 GMT by Z : April 1st hoax story.

FFXI?

[panchondo]

People play FFXI?

Ugh...

[Satertek]

Frakking April Fools day.

Does this mean...

[Krater76]

we finally won't have to hear the standard 'WoW vs. FFO' flamewars? That would really make my year.

WoW Fanboy: 'FFO sucks, it's just so blah, blah, blah...'
FFO Fanboy: 'Real gamers play real MMOs like FFO blah, blah, blah...'
WoW Fanboy: 'You're an idiot, 'real gamers'?! If you look at stats blah, blah, blah...'
FFO Fanboy: 'You don't know sh!t, Blizzard sucks blah, blah, blah...'
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ad nauseum

Happy April Fool's everyone....

Hmmmm, bad choice?

[soniCron88]

Anyone else think it may be a poor choice to have the JavaScript popup as the punchline to this "April Fools" joke? Handheld browsers may not display it. Possibly IE users with high security settings won't see it. And some Firefox users that are paranoid won't. Not to mention the rest of the population that automatically close anything that pops up automatically... I would understand if there's a huge uprising because of that.

Useless /.

[CFTM]

Am I the only one who thinks that Slashdot is really stupid on April Fool's Day? I think every story I've seen on this site today is a hoax ... c'mon editors put some real shit up there ...

Re:Useless /.

[Grey Ninja]

That's what it's for. April Fool's is a time for every website in the known universe to go nuts. Slashdot is like a big directory for them. I rather enjoy it myself.

I know they claim it's just a joke, but

[artifex2004]

How do all those PS2minis install and access the game, when they don't have hard drive bays?

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Oh, we'll just use the firewire...

[CarrionBird]

What? We deleted that too?

DOH!!!

Re:I know they claim it's just a joke, but

[-kertrats-]

they don't.

Thats why is a bad joke

[MMaestro]

You can't play FFXI on the new PS2 minis, which makes this a bad April Fools joke when you think about it. If you listened to the community when Sony announced the PS2 mini you would've heard talk of people hoarding the old PS2 models due to their unreliability/the fact that the only other way to play would be on the PC. Among the PC players, theres random rumors/jokes/talk about the game eventually becoming PC only after the next expansion (if there is another expansion considering how late it is in the PS

Damn

[mrseigen]

Too bad it's an April Fools joke. The PS2 users are a blight on the game.