1. I am running the game from Linux via Wine (Which I might add runs FFXI far better than Winblows). I have been since 2011. The game has run fine up until this last update.
2. Now the NPC's either have no name, or the name "NPC" . When you interact with them any options you would have had are now missing as I showed in the screenshot.
3. Visual effect addon to affect the actual game files what I have there is visual overlays and they again do not affect the game functionality.
4. This issue persists on the base game as well as it does on Windower. That was the very first thing I tested.