Put Tetra Master In FFXI - Drop PlayOnline

[Wenceslao]

The only card game I'd play in FFXI would be Triple Triad. (can't stand Tetra Master)

I'd like the whole challenge random NPCs in towns feature from FF8.
Main storyline characters would grant some of the stronger cards.

There could be a method of taking Soul Plates and turning them into cards too
(Cards would have to be in a separate inventory)
Perhaps Cards could be transformed to and from Soul Plates, so it would become a new way to store soul plates.
Corsairs could potentially use these cards in new Job Abilities.
Puppetmasters could potentially use these cards as AI changers for their automatons. (new equip slot on Automaton)

Lots of potential here.

I agree with you, Triple Traid was really good, and i really just dont care what happens to tetra master, but i think many players liked it, and still like it, if they could implement one or both, many players would have an incentive to keep playing, as others will have an excuse to play inside the game, lol, its a good idea, but hardly viable to be implemented by SE due PS2 limitations, lack of funds to do it, not a priority in DEV agenda, etc etc etc etc etc...

[bungiefan]

PlayOnline cannot be removed, all the games that used it were tied into it, so you could communicate with friends playing Tetra Master, Front Mission Online, Fantasy Earth, or JongHoLow while in FFXI. It's like asking for Xbox Live to be removed from all the Xbox games that used it to go online. It was a centralized online service created even before Live.

[Cetra]

if not removed, i would be happy to see a secondary boot that is stand-alone. This would allow players to load it, enter login information, and load directly into FFXI.

This would leave POL for account changes and e-mail chat services, but give us a second, faster method of loading FF.

[Zyeriis]

I said it earlier in this thread I believe: Just add a toggle option to auto-load final fantasy when logging into playonline (and fix password saving while you're at it).

[Akujima]

Amazing Idea.
I thought of this years back when I first started playing. I thought Tetra Master was actually going to be an in game card-game, similar to FFVIII (which was heaps of fun). When I found out it was a separate thing, I knew it would fail.

Bring it back and implement it into the game, would add more variety to our already Abyssea heavy Metropolis.

[Freebytes]

I am bumping this since I still want something like this added and the new expansion is being released soon. The new expansion could be the springboard for something like this especially since they are adding new crafts anyway.

Zyeriis, the idea of making an option for FFXI to load immediately after inserting your username and password is a great one as well. This would completely solve my annoyances with POL.

Ayindygra, using soul plates and converted them into cards is a good idea. I really like the idea of having cards drop from NMs directly as well, though, because it would give people a reason to return to fight some of them for drops that other people need.

And just to reiterate, it should only be playable in the cities and towns. Otherwise, people could bother you with requests while you are trying to fight NMs.

[Kaisha]

Zyeriis, the idea of making an option for FFXI to load immediately after inserting your username and password is a great one as well. This would completely solve my annoyances with POL.

This is basically all I want, for POL to act as a login/launcher client for XI. Nothing more, nothing less.

It'll also allow them to strip the POL e-mail stuff, which may or may not give the PS2 some breathing space if they actually take that portion of the code out of the XI client, rather than leaving it dormant. Friends list management could just be either handled via SE Accounts, or add an ingame option to remove someone from your list. ;/

[Edyth]

Triple Triad or GTFO. Tetra Master is bogus.

[Zumi]

Nice necrobump. But they will never get rid of Playonline even now that they have the SE account system because of consoles.

[Kluaf]

id of rather of had a card game like magic pokemon type any day over the @#$% %^& play as a monster shiet