Adding new races / Zilart / Mythra (male)

Hello.

I would like to see new races in the game.
-Elvaan Hybrids
-Mithra (Male)
-Zilarts
-etc.

Also would it be possible to have new faces and hair style?
not necessairly new faces, but being able to keep certain faces with hairstyle
and adding an haircut master.

I know it's probably been asked for Before. but i'd like the characters faces to be a little bit
more unique in FFXI.

I would just love it if they introduced new continents/homelands of the people and races already mentioned in the game's story, even if we don't get any new jobs or races to play.

We probably need to wait until they finally get rid of the PS2 support (By Altana people in Japan seem to really love holding onto obsolete systems) before any of this can happen.

why do people still play with obselete system?

I'm not sure if you are aware how large the average Japanese home is, but I can assure you that most of them don't have a lot of room for a PC.

And you can't really call the Xbox 360 a huge success in Japan either.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Shirai

I'm not sure if you are aware how large the average Japanese home is, but I can assure you that most of them don't have a lot of room for a PC.

And you can't really call the Xbox 360 a huge success in Japan either.

---

There are laptops, that take up roughly the same space as a PS2 Fat (less even, when it comes to width) that are many times more powerful than a PS2. Heck, I briefly played this game on a 2005 Dell with only a 32mb video card in it and lackluster processor and I recall it ran the game at least as well as a PS2 does. That said, I don't think the size issue is much of an argument.

Then they can get a ps3 and ditch the ps2 at the least.

See... 2 replacements for the PS2, PS3 or a Laptops. I still dont understands whats the big deal.

Well, in fairness, I don't think upgrading to a PS3 would really be much of an upgrade of any kind, seeing as how it would only be emulating the PS2 anyway. I actually tried FFXI on my backwards compatible PS3 a few years ago, and it honestly didn't look or run any better than on a PS2 (although, I suppose you do have a bigger HDD to work with, which is something.) At this point, I think the only legitimate upgrade option would be a laptop/PC or possibly the 360(?).

Actually i had 2 EX-box 360. 1 died in the era of the Besieged/Campaign Battles. the other when abyssea came out. For some reason.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Fenrirs_Takumi

Actually i had 2 EX-box 360. 1 died in the era of the Besieged/Campaign Battles. the other when abyssea came out. For some reason.

---

Those older models were notorious for getting that "red ring of death" as they call it. Some kind of heating malfunction or something I think. The original PS3s had the same problem (the "yellow light of death") which occurred because the system would overheat so much eventually that the solder joints would crack and it could no longer function. It happened to a friend of mine and I was able to repair it by taking it apart and "reflowing" the processors (using a heat gun to re-melt the solder essentially) but it was only a band-aid fix. I believe the newer versions of both systems pretty much eliminated those design flaws -- it's just a shame they got rid of the backwards compatibility on the newer PS3s.

Yea BUt still. Talking about being able to get new race and new hairstyle here. a lil bit like FFXIV (for hairstyle). I'm Sick of seeing the same character over and over. No one is special in FFXI. we look like most NPCs.
it's sad.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Fenrirs_Takumi

No one is special in FFXI. we look like most NPCs.
it's sad.

---

Kinda off topic, but funnily enough this was one of the things that I loved about XI when I started playing. Not so much the lack of options, but rather that for all intents and purposes we were indeed the adventurer NPCs you'd see in a Final Fantasy game chilling in the background or busy being the Red Shirts on fights. And that really added to the immersion for me back then. (^ᴗ^ )