Official Petition to Bring Back PlayOnline for ARR

Manga, music, and chat, oh my!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42la3foiCc

And that Turo, what a stud.

Make it happen SE.

I hope you are joking...

Ew, Hell to the no.

This has to be a joke right?

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Originally Posted by Maxthunder

This has to be a joke right?

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For humanity, let's say yes, yes it is. Funny video though haha.

Dolphin anyone?

Heyull to tha no

I was always a Solid Wax kind of guy

Though I admit there were a few things I liked from it, like the friends list, messages, animated menus and the ability to store my damn password so I don't need to input two passwords every damn time I want to play. Everything else can burn in hell, especially the R0 deal and the payment system. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK R0ing in XI and having to go back to PoL every time.

This isn't that bad idea.

POL was kind of an access portal to a number of services on the PS2. Yeah people think about in terms of just accessing FFXI, but it also had email, chat rooms and most importantly (for SE) were news tidbits and advertisements for other SE products.

With that in mind, updating POL would be a great idea. The main problem, however, is that POL has always been linked to MMOs, in that the only way you could have POL is if you bought FFXI or (if I'm not entirely mistaken) Front Mission Online. So for POL to work now, it should be a free app. Then from inside POL it should be possible to buy access to FFXI and FFXIV.

The next step would be to then include a portal for access to the Square Enix manga bookshelf, the music library, and perhaps even old game titles available for a particular system (assuming PC and PS3). Apps like Crunchy Roll and Netflix are on PS3, so why not make digitally distributed manga available on a console as well?

Overall it could be pretty darn cool.

obviously it wouldn't be exactly the same. An upgrade PlayOnline yes please absolutely.

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Originally Posted by Shinalia

This isn't that bad idea.

POL was kind of an access portal to a number of services on the PS2. Yeah people think about in terms of just accessing FFXI, but it also had email, chat rooms and most importantly (for SE) were news tidbits and advertisements for other SE products.

With that in mind, updating POL would be a great idea. The main problem, however, is that POL has always been linked to MMOs, in that the only way you could have POL is if you bought FFXI or (if I'm not entirely mistaken) Front Mission Online. So for POL to work now, it should be a free app. Then from inside POL it should be possible to buy access to FFXI and FFXIV.

The next step would be to then include a portal for access to the Square Enix manga bookshelf, the music library, and perhaps even old game titles available for a particular system (assuming PC and PS3). Apps like Crunchy Roll and Netflix are on PS3, so why not make digitally distributed manga available on a console as well?

Overall it could be pretty darn cool.

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Originally Posted by Shinalia

This isn't that bad idea.

POL was kind of an access portal to a number of services on the PS2. Yeah people think about in terms of just accessing FFXI, but it also had email, chat rooms and most importantly (for SE) were news tidbits and advertisements for other SE products.

With that in mind, updating POL would be a great idea. The main problem, however, is that POL has always been linked to MMOs, in that the only way you could have POL is if you bought FFXI or (if I'm not entirely mistaken) Front Mission Online. So for POL to work now, it should be a free app. Then from inside POL it should be possible to buy access to FFXI and FFXIV.

The next step would be to then include a portal for access to the Square Enix manga bookshelf, the music library, and perhaps even old game titles available for a particular system (assuming PC and PS3). Apps like Crunchy Roll and Netflix are on PS3, so why not make digitally distributed manga available on a console as well?

Overall it could be pretty darn cool.

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Screw that just make it usable through the steam interface and we have a 10x better user portal at our disposal.

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Originally Posted by Azurus

Screw that just make it usable through the steam interface and we have a 10x better user portal at our disposal.

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And yet it's a common complaint about how Steam handles MMO launching and updating when launching through it for many of the MMOs you can download on it.

Come on, guys... What about the Lodestone? That's like PlayOnline!

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Originally Posted by Elexia

And yet it's a common complaint about how Steam handles MMO launching and updating when launching through it for many of the MMOs you can download on it.

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Fixing that would be easier than fixing pol. Steam just recently started hitting the mmo space in earnest. They've been great up till now I'm sure they'll hammer out those problems soon enough

Edit: Hell I just set it up to launch gw2 and it launches it perfectly and gives me perfect use of the overlay.

What the heck was all of that rubbish?

I don't know about you but here in Australia POL was nothing but an annoying account management system with an incredible talent for implementing management structures into their customer service that guaranteed you no resolutions, no solutions and a fabulous international charge on your telephone bill because their bullshit chat support was far from chatty and even further from supportive.

Oh and I disapprove of them coming back :D

I liked play online, reminded me of .Hack lol

I enjoyed PlayOnline in the very beginning ... but towards the end of my FFXI career (WoTG) .. I was overIt.com

Apology for bad english
I was at home eatin penutt buthurt when pfone rangs
"Playonline is kill"
"no"

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Originally Posted by WinnipegJet

Manga, music, and chat, oh my!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_42la3foiCc

And that Turo, what a stud.

Make it happen SE.

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Ah the old PlayOnline, so much promise...so many lies. So...many...damned lies.

Replace "PlayOnline" with "Lodestone" and we got a deal :D

I actually kinda like the idea. Although I initially hated POL, I found it very useful after I got a chance to maneuver around in it. I also agree with Shinalia, and I think her ideas would be really awesome. It's kinda something you'd think SE would/could be focusing on....What a better way for a company like SE to make it so you can buy/play most if not all of their published titles??

Thing is, as great of an idea as it is....It would require quite a bit of resources and not only that, it would be a MAJOR change for SE in the way that they do business and idk if a company like SE would do or partake in any thing of that scale...Especially after the disaster that was FFXIV 1.0 happened to them, that they are still trying to fix. Considering this, I don't think that POL will ever have anything to do with any modern game going forward.

PZ FunkyMonkey, BabyHerbie and Solid Wax, talkin bout some funky grooves.

POL is still being updated, there's no reason they couldn't add an XIV executable to it. even more so now that XI is tied into SEAM

IMO SE should adapt playonline into their PC digital services. It's a very marketable and recognized name. There is a lot of untapped potential there to streamline and centralize their business.

Obviously Playonline is the new Steam.

I disliked PoL with a passion, having it maybe run through steam as others have mentioned - that is something I could get behind! But at the same time I worry, if it gets too complicated we may yet end up with another clusterf*** that playonline was D:

I like it as 1.0 was - log in and click play; not log in, click through 4 menus, click play and if you DC start from 3 menus back if you're lucky. D:

The hell.... why? Playonline made it take longer to get into the damn game. Screw playonline.

I'll just leave this here...

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Play online wouldn't be necessary to run the game, simply adding an option to allow XiV to be executed from POL would be fine. POL still has tetra master too.

I cannot believe that is a real video. That kid rocking back and forth to the hip hop music, wow lol. I thought that was like a joke video for sure. The rest of it seemed like an interesting proof of concept. Too bad PlayOnline couldn't live up to that stupid video.

get jiggy wit it!

LOL! I love the wave of new topics :)

I'll all for bringing back PoL as a portal to access the game.

why?

Because it's a method to make sure everyone who is playing is delivered information regarding the game. I dunno how many times, scratch that there were 23 times that i'm certain of that people would update thier game then ask in LS "so whats changed?"
They never looked at the patch notes because they couldn't be bothered to look at the lodestone or the forums. In the LS I was in of about 30-40 active players only about 5 of them visited the forums and even less the lodestone.

PoL was an excellent tool to get info to the entire player base.

A few tweaks so that you only had to input your account info once, and a button to immediately launch the game is all PoL needed.

Add windows to the SE store for those gamers who like to buy collectables or to buy SE music
another window to advertise up and coming games it's a win/win for SE and the players.

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Originally Posted by ChiefCurrahee

I'll all for bringing back PoL as a portal to access the game.

why?

Because it's a method to make sure everyone who is playing is delivered information regarding the game. I dunno how many times, scratch that there were 23 times that i'm certain of that people would update thier game then ask in LS "so whats changed?"
They never looked at the patch notes because they couldn't be bothered to look at the lodestone or the forums. In the LS I was in of about 30-40 active players only about 5 of them visited the forums and even less the lodestone.

PoL was an excellent tool to get info to the entire player base.

A few tweaks so that you only had to input your account info once, and a button to immediately launch the game is all PoL needed.

Add windows to the SE store for those gamers who like to buy collectables or to buy SE music
another window to advertise up and coming games it's a win/win for SE and the players.

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Sorry, BF3 beats everything what you said. Your LS members are just too lazy to check the lodestone or forums. How hard is it to use a web browser when you have the internet, seriously? Why would I want to buy SE music on POL? Let's look at social communities... Xbox has Xbox live... PS3 has PSN... Wii has Nintendo Network... PC has what...? Steam? Origin? Battle.net? Fuck that, I am not going to use my credit card elsewhere as I am considering about SE's server security.

Web > Flash-like client that's POL...

I was a

Dance of the Fairies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhgwB430Mw

Hairy Worm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JUyE...46611&index=22

Silver Pocketwatch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwiB2...246611&index=4

Change of Rhythm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JiFd...246611&index=8


kind of guy.


EDIT: I do think we need a sort of "Friend List that includes all of people's characters" and "Messaging outside of the game through the launcher." maybe but other than that nah.

I do recall using the Playonline chat from the main FFXI website while on vacation a couple of times to keep in touch with people XD lol.

http://www.playonline.com/polplusus/intro/

I kinda liked POL.... but this video doesnt seem all that representative of it lol peoples characters running around old ff areas.... like the ice caverns(ffix) and bits of CS from the games...

Yah that demo game looks like a mix of FF8 and FF9.

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Originally Posted by Zehira

Sorry, BF3 beats everything what you said. Your LS members are just too lazy to check the lodestone or forums. How hard is it to use a web browser when you have the internet, seriously? Why would I want to buy SE music on POL? Let's look at social communities... Xbox has Xbox live... PS3 has PSN... Wii has Nintendo Network... PC has what...? Steam? Origin? Battle.net? Fuck that, I am not going to use my credit card elsewhere as I am considering about SE's server security.

Web > Flash-like client that's POL...

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I think you totally missed the concept of a 1 stop portal for FFXIV.

Currently you log into the launcher and it tells you the game is updating. Now it's up to the player to open thier web browser and navigate to the lodestone or the forums to see what the update is all about.

it's an easy task.

however, it requires extra steps to find info. People are just lazy.

If the launcher became a more Play on Line like type portal. People would be able to navigate updates and other content while patching in thier game, without feeling like they have to search else where for that info.

A new lore update from the Herald, how many XIV fans do you think read that on the days it updated? How many do you think ever read it? I'm guessing very few.

Now if these updates were presented to the gamer upon logging in they would be more informed of lore being built for the game.

Same goes for all lodestone updates. It should be presented to the player upon logging in. With a system like PoL (not exactly like PoL) the access and delivery of information would be 100%.

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