SoA or any future boxed collections

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

What about multiple disks?

That's pretty much what they've always done in a sense, at least for the PC version. Ultimate Collection Abyssea Edition has separate installers for:

1. PlayOnline Viewer
2. Final Fantasy XI
3. Rise of the Zilart
4. Chains of Promathia
5. Treasrues of Aht Urhgan
6. Wings of the Goddess

and a seventh, meta-installer to walk through the whole thing. It's pretty much a straight 1:1 copy of the original release discs bundled into one package, because cheap/lazy.

[Catmato]

a seventh, meta-installer.

Are you referring to the autorun program that has all of the expansions and DirectX listed as buttons to click? Or is there something that's more automated than that?

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Are you referring to the autorun program that has all of the expansions and DirectX listed as buttons to click? Or is there something that's more automated than that?

FINALFANTASYXIUCAE.exe is a ~2.3 MB application that first unzips the three data files it comes with into seven individual directories (DirectX, POL, FFXI, 4 expansions), presents the user with a screen with the seven individual packages as list of checkboxes, and then automatically walks through the individual installers the user checked, from the top of the list to the bottom.

It's still not exactly fire-and-forget, but it's considerably more robust than the autorun splash screen that came on my original 5 CD set.