Faster access to FFXI?

[Dragoy]

Yes, indeed, it has been asked a few times. ^^

Here's the latest(?) response from 2022:

We’d like to consider decoupling it if possible, but it would be no easy feat since FFXI is an application built to run on the PlayOnline framework.

I'm sure they could, if they had the time and/or money/people to do it.

If something like that were to ever happen, I, for one, do hope the PlayOnline Viewer would still stick around so that one can use it if one wants to, because the PlayOnline messages and the friend system in general are very useful to me.