New Windows Version User Interface

[Lastranger]

Other, more technical modifications are also under development that will eventually culminate in an overhaul of the entire user interface.

As previously announced, we are planning to make it possible for area maps to be brought up at all times, which would be implemented in advance of the more comprehensive UI overhaul described above. More information on this will be forthcoming, so please check the forums periodically.

Does this mean we will soon be moving towards Direct X 11 in order to meet modern pc demands and get a graphic Characther/lanscape update later ?

I was postivly surprised by roadmap today ^^

Just like to say that despite our bickering over our favorit job/event/storline we do apricate the hard work the dev team is doing as we have been told they do so with less resources then before, our biggest gripe these days is probably more with Ffxi having less resources thus leading to no new expansion ( as in new area's that are not made from old content map's ), though i guess we all are hoping u might be working on something like this in secret.
i still remember Toau coming out and how exciting it was as well as the first times i gained access to Cop related area's through Cop mission for the first time.

Keep up the good work, and check out the many sugestions made on Job secions ^^

Btw Congratulations on 10 years of ffxi in advance,

[RAIST]

Does this mean we will soon be moving towards Direct X 11 in order to meet modern pc demands and get a graphic Characther/lanscape update later ?

Hopefully not DX11, but more DX compliant should be the goal. That has always been the problem with FFXI--it is a half-baked DX implementation in the first place.

Sending it to DX11 level would mean upgrading to a new OS for a lot of users--many may not be inclined to plunk down the $$ to upgrade to newer Windows if XP is still working for them. Even FFXIV is DX9c compliant, and still runs on XP.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Does this mean we will soon be moving towards Direct X 11 in order to meet modern pc demands and get a graphic Characther/lanscape update later ?

UI overhaul =/= engine overhaul. They may take this in a direction of allowing legitimate third-party add-ons (and/or making them redundant), but nothing so far suggests "shiny new renderings."

[Lastranger]

UI overhaul =/= engine overhaul. They may take this in a direction of allowing legitimate third-party add-ons (and/or making them redundant), but nothing so far suggests "shiny new renderings."

Yeah , but i think the game indeed deserves a overhaul in code, isnt the graphics still on dx8 wrapped over to 9 making it a bit of monkey coding.

As for full graphics revamp, i dont expect that but some new shades and effects if updated over time as long as it is posible within windows client code.

The game has held up good for 10 years but it's starting to show some age and definetivly deserves the coming ui updates, and i definetivly like that they no longer hold back windows side on client because of Ps2/3 & xbox360.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Official info says the game is still DirectX 8.1:

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/env...tml?pageID=win