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

[Rhianu]

So many games use different names for the same thing.

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

I don't see how they would look any different than they do now. >_>

They're ugly the normal way, uglier this new way.

But they look exactly the same either way!

[LeaderofAtlantis]

Ok, I'm tired of hearing the whole "Drop the PS2" thing. Let me say this - I play on PS2 because of these reasons:

1) I first owned it on PS2, so I got the expansions for it and therefore, didn't feel like buying them all over again initially (yeah, they're ultra cheap for PC now, I know)...

2) I like the PS2 controller and using my TV screen. Yeah, I wish I could get some of the clutter of the screen at times and better resolution will do that, but I feel comfortable with it, so it's my choice to play this way.

3) It still works, I've been playing on it for 7 years, with a controller and USB Keyboard (for chatting) - why take the time to get used to everything all over again on PC?

4) I did the macro save and switch when I tried playing on my brother's laptop when we were all visiting my mom last Christmas. It didn't transfer my macros over properly and well, my time is limited sometimes and redoing all my macros manually just isn't appealing to me.


NOW, All that said, Square-Enix should work hard to bring an HD and possibly even 3D experience to players on PC an XBox360 if possible. There's no reason they shouldn't be able to since it appears we download all animations, zones, gear, character looks, monsters, etc. to our hard drives anyway for faster reaction times on showing them, so why not, instead of the current files, it grabs and displays new HD versions of these files instead? Maybe I'm missing something, but that shouldn't be too difficult.

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.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

4) I did the macro save and switch when I tried playing on my brother's laptop when we were all visiting my mom last Christmas. It didn't transfer my macros over properly and well, my time is limited sometimes and redoing all my macros manually just isn't appealing to me.

Log in on the PS2 and set yourself onto a blank macro page or, better yet, a blank book. Then back it up to the server.

I don't know why this works, it just does. Just another PS2 bug that will never get fixed.

[Dragoy]

2) I like the PS2 controller and using my TV screen. Yeah, I wish I could get some of the clutter of the screen at times and better resolution will do that, but I feel comfortable with it, so it's my choice to play this way.

3) It still works, I've been playing on it for 7 years, with a controller and USB Keyboard (for chatting) - why take the time to get used to everything all over again on PC?

You know it's possible to play with a controller on the PC as well? You can even use a Playstation controller if you have an adapter for it. ^^

All it means is anyone will be able to resize and move their chat log however and wherever they want it, if they want to.

It's not quite that freely adjustable. If you haven't tried it out on the test-server, it is just as I expected, stuck in the lower-left corner, and you can adjust the size between set steps similar to how you can set the maximum/minimum lines visible, only that you can do it more to the up than before, as well as to the left/right.

I tried playing with it a bit, still not sure if I can get used to it not filling the whole lower area lol.
It is good to see that they are playing around with the UI, and even considering further changes.

Keep it up!

[Greatguardian]

In This Thead: People don't seem to understand that adding a chat widget doesn't mean that everyone's chat log will be moved over to the side.

All it means is anyone will be able to resize and move their chat log however and wherever they want it, if they want to.

If you like it where it is, keep it there. If you don't, move it. Win-Win.

[Sappho]

woo!!!
chat box sizing!!!

[Camate]

Camate here to deliver another message from Producer Hiromichi Tanaka!

I’d like to start out with some responses to feedback.

I think it would work well if we could adjust the width of the log window from both the right and left side. That way, for example, we could place them log window right in the bottom center of the screen.

Is it correct to assume, based on the original image, that it will be adjustable only from the right side? I’d really like it to be adjustable from the left as well.

We plan on closely monitoring the situation for a while with the current setup as a variety of problems could arise with the compass and action commands/other things that are constantly displayed above the log window, making the settings quite complex.

Along with the log window change, will there be additional log window backgrounds added? If adding new ones is difficult, I think it would be cool to customize the color just like you do when you select a color for your linkshell.

We won’t be increasing the variety, but we are thinking it might be good to switch some out. Perhaps we’ll have a survey asking which numbers you would like cut. For now, we will try to see if we can make number 5 a bit darker.

Personally, I welcome the log window change. Being able to change the number of text lines is helpful.

Will it be possible to add another log window in the space that resizing would create, so we can set up different logs? For example, it’d be really great if we could have one window as the battle log and another one for chat. I’d also really appreciate it if we could customize the size of the text in the log window.

We are not currently planning multiple windows for “the current system.”

As we are working within the limitations of the current UI, we are a bit limited with the things we can do.
While we are working on things that we can, like the Windows version resolution improvements, we have actually begun looking into completely revamping the entire UI. Of course this is going to take some time, so once I have more information, I will be sure to share it with you.

For our next step, we are planning to address higher resolution text fonts and separate resolution settings for the overlay graphics resolution and menus.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

We won’t be increasing the variety, but we are thinking it might be good to switch some out. Perhaps we’ll have a survey asking which numbers you would like cut. For now, we will try to see if we can make number 5 a bit darker.

This!!!! The backgrounds are long overdue to be replaced.

[Zhronne]

While we are working on things that we can, like the Windows version resolution improvements, we have actually begun looking into completely revamping the entire UI.

That's... that's...
I didn't really read that, did I?
Somebody pinch me please, need to see if I'm awake or dreaming.

[Kaisha]

For our next step, we are planning to address higher resolution text fonts and separate resolution settings for the overlay graphics resolution and menus.

All I needed to hear.

No more tiny chat box at 1920x1200!