More Xbox 360 options, config & more.

[Kimikryo]

Unless the drive itself is faulty or the disc is extremely poorly manufactured, accessing optical media in and of itself won't damage it, no matter how long you do it. The drive motor will give out long before the disc itself.

This is a red herring, though, as if the disc was truly bad, wiping the Xbox's hard drive and reinstalling wouldn't be possible (let alone fix the problem, albeit temporarily).

I have to add, I started playing FFXI on a releasy 360, we all know of the problems with those disc drives back than, so maybe it was that.

Still, I'd be glad, if I wouldn't need to have my ffxi discs spinning in the drive all the while my secondary acount is with his bazaar wherever.

[Atomic_Skull]

Not one TV out there capable of outputting 720p needs a "TV safe area." I haven't met a single flat panel screen that cuts off the edges of images like tube TVs used to.

Some LCD and plasma TV's particularly 720p ones have overscan. Almost all 1080p LCD and PDP TVs have a "display entire image with no overscan" option. Almost all projection TVs regardless of resolution have overscan in the projection hardware.

Note also that almost all "720p" LCD TVs are actually using 1366x768 panels.

[JiltedValkyrie]

XI on Xbox 360 will automatically resize to 800x600 and 1024x748. I've used both before and the menu becomes incredibly smaller as if it were running the PC version which I normally use anyway in 1080p.

[Camiie]

Even before the Verified by Visa thing, you could not use a debit card on the PC.

I've never paid for FFXI with anything but a debit card since 2004.

[Alhanelem]

I've never paid for FFXI with anything but a debit card since 2004.

Same here. A debit card has always been useable (as long as it's a real debit card with the visa/mastercard logo... Bank/ATM cards with no logo are a different matter)

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I've never paid for FFXI with anything but a debit card since 2004.

Then you're lucky that in 05-09 all you're money wasn't stolen.

[Camiie]

Then you're lucky that in 05-09 all you're money wasn't stolen.

If only I was that lucky with everything else!

[Greatguardian]

Plenty of people couldn't use a debit card, you might have had a special one.

I've been paying with a Visa debit for 8 years. Maybe the issue was with your bank, because SE certainly didn't have a problem accepting debit payments before VbV.

[wish12oz]

PC

PROTIP: When you log in on PC with windower, press F11 to turn off ambient lighting.

[luckyman]

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.