If you're not going to get rid of the PoL Viewer, SE, then at least let us bypass it.

I support this idea.

Me too, not that it bothers me that much about the time spent logging in, it doesn't really, but every other game I play I can log in in seconds.

How about at least updating the game ads across the bottom of the main screen?

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Originally Posted by Catsby

There's an unspoken rule in game usability about there being no more than 3 menu screens or "levels" between the executable and the game state. FFXI violates this to a face-palming degree.

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Originally Posted by Tsukino_Kaji

Never heard of that rule

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That's because it's unspoken. :)

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Originally Posted by Tsukino_Kaji

Realy it was designed to hoste the miriad of online games SE was planning. I know tetramaster is gone, but I'm pretty sure the JP markest still has a bunch of other features on it that we never got.

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As far as I'm aware, the only things that the JP players got that we didn't was like four other games that have all since been discontinued, just like Tetra Master.

First off, I want to say how badly I hate the mobile version of this site on iPhone 4. I've crashed numerous times and keep losing everything I've typed. So this may be posted as numerous smaller posts to save whatever I have so far.

POL viewer was a great idea, years ago, back during the concept phase. Since it was "supposed" to allow us to have a LOT more features. But since those features either never made it or have long since been cancelled, POL is now completely useless. The only useful feature it still has going for it is the reactivation

Sorry, stupid iPhone.

Reactivation services, or the content ID purchase features, which can very easily be converted directly into the FFXI main screen.

The POL viewer is still advertising mobile wallpaper for phones that are no longer even in service. The email feature is no longer even useful. POL viewer needs to go the way of the PS2 system and be completely phased out.

There is a lot that needs to be fixed with the game and this is great step in the correct direction. By removing the POL viewer, you not only free up a lot of HDD space (which the PS2 already desperately needs), but a lot of system resources too. Because even while playing FFXI, the POL viewer has to be running in the background. It's nothing more than a waste of space. I'm sure there would be a lot of complications at the start of removal, but I feel that it would overall be a huge increase by the end. Fresh installs of the game would no longer require installing POL and updating it before updating the game. You could install and update FFXI without ever needing to sign in to an account. This would be heaven for anyone that has this game installed on more tha one system.

Who cares what POL could of been-should of been, bottom line its a useless series of time consuming screens delaying our entry into the game. Trash it ASAP.

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Originally Posted by Gropitou

Who cares what POL could of been-should of been, bottom line its a useless series of time consuming screens delaying our entry into the game. Trash it ASAP.

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Or at least condense it to a reasonable point.

Security screen > main menu > game.

Why is there even argument about this? No one uses anything in the POL viewer except for account maintinance and chat when the servers are down. It's unnecessary.