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  1. 06-16-2011 01:15 AM #1
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    Link to forums.

    Does anyone else wish that there was just a link in the "Developer's Room" for Playonline? It's kind of a pain to have to open my browser and type the URL constantly in order to get to the forums. Anyone that's ever had their credit card declined knows that there's a link to Visa or Mastercard but when it comes to the updates we're still in the 20th century?
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  2. 06-16-2011 01:18 AM #2
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    lol

    MSIE shortcuts: ALT-A

    Add to favorites
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    Another MSIE shortcut: ALT-F

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    Last edited by RAIST; 06-16-2011 at 01:20 AM.
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  3. 06-16-2011 01:22 AM #3
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    That's still way more work than is needed to see an update.
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  4. 06-16-2011 01:24 AM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by RAIST View Post
    lol

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    And lol at you for using IE XD
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  5. 06-16-2011 02:10 AM #5
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    nothing wrong with Internet Explor.....sorry, couldn't finish that sentence without laughing.
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  6. 06-16-2011 04:11 AM #6
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    use shortcut to open your bookmarks, hit first letter of your shortcut or folder you put it in... etc. It's not much effort.

    ALT-A, f, f, right arrow, up arrow, <enter> and I'm on English Forums. Takes me less time/effort than it does to load a page and scroll to a link on this old P4 laptop that was made almost 3 years ago (in other words, it's pretty slow at times).

    If it's on your desktop, you can actually make a short-cut key combo to that shortcut...minimize your browser and hit <CTR>-<SHIFT>-f and bam... forum is loading.

    Alternatively, you could put the shortcut directly on your start menu even. <CTRL>-<ESC> (or windows key if it's on your keyboard) opens start menu, hit first letter of the shortcuts there and it jumps through them also.
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    Last edited by RAIST; 06-16-2011 at 04:16 AM.
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  7. 06-16-2011 04:29 AM #7
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    Or (and this is just a thought), how about NOT requiring the use of the shiny new toy? Dual-post on PoL and the forums, or outline the update for a general idea in PoL while full details are posted here. All-in-all, it is rather inconvenient to minimize PoL, use my bookmark, scan for the update notes, double-check it is the real notes and not player responses, and finally read it. All just before I get sucked into reading the forums for 3 hours and end up not logging in FFXI at all.
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  8. 06-16-2011 05:05 AM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by InfamousDS View Post
    Or (and this is just a thought), how about NOT requiring the use of the shiny new toy? Dual-post on PoL and the forums, or outline the update for a general idea in PoL while full details are posted here. All-in-all, it is rather inconvenient to minimize PoL, use my bookmark, scan for the update notes, double-check it is the real notes and not player responses, and finally read it. All just before I get sucked into reading the forums for 3 hours and end up not logging in FFXI at all.
    agreed.. there were some other threads of this thought a while back. Kinda miss the write-ups they used to do on POL.. now it's just.. "Updates posted... see the following link for details"....
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  9. 06-16-2011 05:13 AM #9
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    {Yes, please.} I wish I could just click on the link in the viewer, and it would take me to the update notes page in whatever default browser I have set.
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  10. 06-16-2011 03:22 PM #10
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    It's not a matter of getting to the forums that's easy. It's just that most of the time I see the updates after I log into the game. I shouldn't have to minimize that and open folders to find shortcuts to the forum so I can then try to navigate this hell of a website and find the correct Dev Tag and then start reading it when they could just implement a link and *poof* I'm there.
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