I hate you square enix.

[RAIST]

chaulk it up to multiple server lag I guess...the game is hitting like 6 different servers just getting you into POL. Then its a few more before your toon loads in the game. Newer games were built from the ground up on newer technologies that simply have less lag in their core design, simply because there are fewer pieces in the puzzle. Only way to eliminate that lag is to restructure the core design of the game...don't hold your breath on that happening anytime soon.

[Seyrena]

chaulk it up to multiple server lag I guess...the game is hitting like 6 different servers just getting you into POL. Then its a few more before your toon loads in the game. Newer games were built from the ground up on newer technologies that simply have less lag in their core design, simply because there are fewer pieces in the puzzle. Only way to eliminate that lag is to restructure the core design of the game...don't hold your breath on that happening anytime soon.

It seems to me more and more like that's exactly what's needed.

One thing I find immensely troubling is Square-Enix's reticence on the whole to trust their user base when it comes to the user interface, or barring that, at least their apparent attitude that hindrance equals efficiency. And once again, I think the problem stems largely from the fact that this MMO is designed to be identical on three platforms.

Look at WoW. Every time users have come up with an improvement using Blizzard's API, Blizzard has a tendency to simply incorporate it into the official UI, almost always to the ease and benefit of the players. But the reason they are able to do this is because they don't have an entire user base that suffers from the limitations of being split across multiple game platforms. I believe that that, as well as a prohibitive, authoritarian stance on user-generated interface modifications, is why FFXI's UI remains nearly identical to its state at release, and hence why it feels so dated.

I mean, at least get on the ball about Japanese IME in the English client - you've had nine years to hash this out with Microsoft!

[Catsby]

The game's front end is awful and half of FFXI is menu dancing. It seems like FFXI was designed around fighting or getting information from NPCs. Everything else has to derive from one of those functions and always seems to go back to a menu. I've said it countless times but once more with gusto, FFXI needs massive interface overhauls.

[Leonlionheart]

chaulk it up to multiple server lag I guess...the game is hitting like 6 different servers just getting you into POL. Then its a few more before your toon loads in the game. Newer games were built from the ground up on newer technologies that simply have less lag in their core design, simply because there are fewer pieces in the puzzle. Only way to eliminate that lag is to restructure the core design of the game...don't hold your breath on that happening anytime soon.

You spelled character or char. wrong, it's not spelled toon.

[RAIST]

You spelled character or char. wrong, it's not spelled toon.

nice +1

It is a common slang term for your character/avatar...helluva lot easier to type too.

[rog]

nice +1

It is a common slang term for your character/avatar...helluva lot easier to type too.

toon is easier to type than char? Funny, i thought it was the other way around.

[RAIST]

one-handed typing with right hand while using the controller in my left....yeah, it's easier. A heck of a lot easier than another term used a lot: "alt"

[rog]

You use a controller to browse forums?

[RAIST]

Laptop for forums... PC for game. But it is a habit that has developed from the game. Most everyone I know calls it a toon, mule, or alt more than they call it their character.

[Zyeriis]

Laptop for forums... PC for game. But it is a habit that has developed from the game. Most everyone I know calls it a toon, mule, or alt more than they call it their character.

And those people should be punched (or worse) >_>. Degrading adventurers and character into something abysmal as a "toons" is insulting. This isn't nickelodeon.