High-res font = yay; Now, how about the title screen?

[Leonlionheart]

I don't want my chat window changed. Leave it the hell alone.

The special thing about customization, is you don't have to partake at all.

[Atomic_Skull]

The special thing about customization, is you don't have to partake at all.

No it's not that. It's the knowledge that someone else might change it, that he might be looking at someone, partying with someone in game right now who has changed their chat window from it's rightful screen spanning appearance and confined it to a corner of the screen, which fills him with the incandescent rage of a thousand blazing suns.

[Runespider]

You know why other MMOs share a standard interface? Because it works. FFXI has one of the worst interfaces in the entire MMO genre. Conforming to a good, solid standard is far better than creating a unique piece of crap. Deviating from the standard is only acceptable if what you're creating is better than the standard, and FFXI's UI simply isn't better. It's much worse.

A lot of us started our MMO career with FFXI and as such is the standard we are used to, when I play other MMOs I hate the chat window systems they use. I also get irritated if I can't use the control system I'm used to.

I guess the only reason I can think of for this change is for super high res/widescreen players to make the chatbox a normal size. That's honestly quite a small number of people but at least I can see a point to it now, if that is the case they probably need an option to change the font size too though maybe.

[Rhianu]

Fun fact: other MMOs have configuration options and addons that allow you to change the chatlog and make it however you want. Don't like the default settings? Change them!

And actually, I think this change to the chatlog affects almost all PC players, and probably most Xbox 360 players as well. Hi-def computer monitors and TVs are very common these days.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Fun fact: other MMOs have configuration options and addons that allow you to change the chatlog and make it however you want. Don't like the default settings? Change them!

And actually, I think this change to the chatlog affects almost all PC players, and probably most Xbox 360 players as well. Hi-def computer monitors and TVs are very common these days.

Perhaps, but this style just doesn't suit the current active backgrounds, so I hope if they change this they'll change those horrible things too.

[Rhianu]

Active backgrounds? What do you mean?

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Active backgrounds? What do you mean?

The backgrounds you can change under config > Windows (I think) they're horrible.

[Rhianu]

Maybe Square-enix is already working on this but the character models, zones, animations and such are taking a longer time, so in the meantime, in order to give us a taste of FFXI in HD, they're doing these little things. For the sake of everyone who wants to continue playing, but with newer graphics and such, I hope this is the case.

Don't fool yourself. SE isn't working on redoing any of FFXI's graphics, no matter how much we would like them to. It's a nice thought, but it ain't happening.

The backgrounds you can change under config > Windows (I think) they're horrible.

Oh, you mean the menu textures? What does that have to do with the size of the chatlog?

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Oh, you mean the menu textures? What does that have to do with the size of the chatlog?

So many games use different names for the same thing.

It effects it as the "textures" will look horrible with that style chat area.

[Mirage]

So many games use different names for the same thing.

It effects it as the "textures" will look horrible with that style chat area.

Please explain why.