Quote Originally Posted by Jerbob View Post
I don't think anyone is suggesting that POL be abandoned. Yes, people mentioned it not being possible to remove POL, but I'm not sure why, because no-one actually asked for POL to be removed - only for the process to be streamlined. Which it can be, without removing POL.
It was insinuated they wanted POL to go away, because there's not a lot they can do to streamline the process otherwise. About the only thing they can really do is make the FFXI shortcut skip to the FFXI top page automatically instead of having to click it on the POL main menu. That would save like ~5-10 seconds and a mouse click. We'd love to see other slowdowns like the remember your family and ESRB rating go away (especially since the latter was added after the fact) but you know those things are never going away.

So they could improve it a little, but short of removing POL (which we've established isn't possible), we're not going to see any dramatic improvements in the time it takes to log in.