Tobold's Blog Thursday, March 18, 2010 Consoles vs. PC for
MMORPG  Nils suggested in the open Sunday thread that I talk
about the advantages and disadvantages of consoles vs. PC when
it comes to playing MMORPGs. Now this is a case where platform
choice is usually made extremely quickly, given the fact that
there are only a small number of console MMORPGs, and lots of
them on the PC. But I just signed up for the Final Fantasy XIV
beta (after a guild mate told me that you get a code for the
beta when you register you FF13 game), and when asked whether I
wanted to test and ultimately play FF14 on the console or on the
PC, I chose the console.  Now that choice was made from my
experience with FF11, which also existed on either console or
PC, and which I played on the PC. It turned out that the UI and
controls were designed with the console in mind, and were not
all that user-friendly for a keyboard and mouse. So I ended up
playing FF11 on the PC using a gamepad, which made controls much
smoother. But once you go