All accounts upgrading to Square enix accounts

[Atomic_Skull]

Y

To me it sounds like the first step in completely removing playOnline, which I think everyone should be jubulant about.

There's a flipside to that. With POL you could exit the game while staying logged in, change your graphics settings and then restart FFXI without having to log out. One of my annoyances with FFXIV was that you had to completely log out and shut down the game to make any changes to graphics settings.

Also, will I have to memorize all of my account info for all four of my accounts? I like that POL has an account list and remembers my password and login ID for each so that I only need to provide the same SE account password and one time password from my token to log in to all of them.

[Chiibi]

wait.. so basiclly our linked accounts become our main log in thingy?

[Raxiaz]

If I recall correctly, I heard from somewhere that doing away with PlayOnline would be too much hassle for SE. There's a certain integration between FINAL FANTASY XI and PlayOnline that the friend list system uses. The handling of "Handle IDs" (your identity on PlayOnline, and FFXI) is done by PlayOnline, and doing away with PoL will render Handle IDs useless.

Would be great if it just made the PlayOnline Viewer an optional program we can access alongside FFXI, while FFXI can be gotten to straight from an .exe on my desktop.

[Atomic_Skull]

If I recall correctly, I heard from somewhere that doing away with PlayOnline would be too much hassle for SE.

Just like adding DirectX 9 support would be too hard and they were talking to someone as Sony about a PS3 native version but that person quit and they just never bothered to talk to anyone else at Sony.

[Atomic_Skull]

How will this affect people who got their first and last name reversed in POL by someone at SE somewhere in 2004-2005?

[Alhanelem]

How will this affect people who got their first and last name reversed in POL by someone at SE somewhere in 2004-2005?

I can't imagine how it would affect anyone.

[Atomic_Skull]

I can't imagine how it would affect anyone.

"We're sorry but the name on the POL account "Smith John" does not match the SE account for John Smith and cannot be added, please select a POL account with a matching name"

[Alhanelem]

"We're sorry but the name on the POL account "Smith John" does not match the SE account for John Smith and cannot be added, please select a POL account with a matching name"

I doubt that the names on the POL and SE accounts have to be the same.

And can't you try calling support to fix your name? How did you enter it backwards in the first place? Shouldnt you be double checking before submitting important personal information?

[Quedari]

I doubt that the names on the POL and SE accounts have to be the same.

And can't you try calling support to fix your name? How did you enter it backwards in the first place? Shouldnt you be double checking before submitting important personal information?

I entered mine correctly when I first made my account, and it's now backwards. Kind of unfair for you to assume that everyone whose names are backwards is to blame. Have you checked yours lately? Though I suppose if you made your account within the past 2 years or so it might be in there correctly.

[bungiefan]

I doubt that the names on the POL and SE accounts have to be the same.

And can't you try calling support to fix your name? How did you enter it backwards in the first place? Shouldnt you be double checking before submitting important personal information?

They don't have to be the same. As my name isn't Japanese but my account is, and you had to type in a kanji name, the name on my account isn't mine. The name on my SE account is mine though.

This change is going to be great for people who got FFXI The CORRECT way instead of importing the game from another country before the game even came out in the US or EU.

And what about those people that lived in Japan at launch and then moved out of that country later, for work/school/other reasons...? 9 years is a long time to live in the same place. I've lived at about 6 different addresses in the past 9 years. You can't change the region the address on your account is for if you move out of the region.

The switch to SE IDs may allow us to finally change the region of our accounts though. They did it once with SE IDs, they should be able to do it again.