More Xbox 360 options, config & more.
The Xbox 360 is lacking a few config options that are currently on PC. Adding these would make playing on it that much better of an experience.
Misc on PC
Misc on 360
Character Models Displayed
With this in the game, it will solve so much of the issues on the 360 with slowdown during Campaign, Besieged, Abyssea or just open fields & towns.
Other Graphical Options
Shadows
Weather
Clipping Plane
Animation Frame Rate
Footstep Effects
What I mentioned earlier for slowdown, these will help as well.
PlayOnline Viewer App
Alright, the easy stuff is out of the way, but i'm not through yet.
Another thing that would be very useful for the Xbox 360 is some form of PlayOnline viewer for digital download. With FFXI discs becoming scarce and no longer being made this is a good option to turn to.
It's pretty annoying already to have to put in the disc, when the disc itself doesn't really do anything because, you install everything to a blank section on the Xbox 360 that you normally wouldn't be able to find. Plus, the disc is only used for the PlayOnline viewer. Wouldn't it make sense to add a digital version for the playonline viewer so we aren't required to use a disc that's only really used for installs?
This can be done a few ways.
1. Games on Demand
2. Xbox 360 App (Like Rockband Store & Halo Waypoint)
3. A method I don't like but i'll suggest it anyway. Do an update for the client via an Xbox update that lets you install the playonline via as an App from your disc to your Xbox 360.
Xbox Live Games-on-Demand
Having purchased Final Fantasy for Xbox and then later the Wings of the Goddess Expansion, to my dismay both disks were ruined within a short amount of time. I then purchased it for PC since it doesn't have the same disk problems that the 360 had. Yet, I would still love it if FFXI was a download on Xbox Live's Games-on-Demand section. Since I have to share the computer with my wife and kids, having an extra playing option wouldn't be so terrible. I thought it would be fairly simple to find a 360 disk. I went to the POL website and it said both the windows and 360 version was under 10 dollars. I then click on the 360 version to find a retailer to purchase it from and 2 of those don't work. The one that does work (the Amazon link) the used disks are around 30 dollars and new imports are over 100. I was blown out of my seat. I couldn't believe it. Now that my 360 has the 250 GB hard drive, I am more than willing to download the game if it were available in that option. I don't want to throw away another 30 or more dollars on a disk that will end up as a cup holder in a month. Maybe make it a surprise to all of us 360ers for the holidays :) *hint hint
Please SE, make the Ultimate Edition or Abyssea Edition available for download on Xbox Live and no longer require a disk. Please. Please. Please.