WTF, Autotranslate Is Putting Everything In Japanese >.<

Reading comprehesion skills are severely lacking. Please read again. All you have done here is shown you can quote out of context and completely miss a very easy to follow point. It's like with everything you quoted, you just skipped the next line I wrote, then made an incorrect judgement on something that you clearly have no idea about.

The comparison to Unix and PC's is not even relevant to the post in any way.

I noticed the lighting changed, which I've gotten used to after about a week. Then again, I think I noticed lighting change when I first installed Windower, too.

Didn't notice more glitches or problem with letters, and I've using the windowed mode the day it was added. (Zero issue with 'B' and 'D', that's for sure.) The only real complaint I have against the windowed mode is that it takes a few seconds to start recognizing controller input when I bring it to the foreground. That, and it keeps moving the window position every time FFXI starts up.

As I said, I did use the Windower before--right up to the day before the windowed mode was added, as a matter of fact. The biggest difference I noticed was that the Windower seemed to have played nicer when in the background, and that I could still my controller to run around even when it's the in the background.

For what it's supposed to do, the windowed mode does just fine.

Yeah, that was a weird design decision. (Think alt+tab was disabled a long time ago in FFXI, though, so users couldn't d/c themselves that way.)

But, it's not the only game with problems switching to other apps. Sims 2 takes so long to go to the background on my computer that I can go grab a cup coffee at a leisurely pace and come back before the computer is usable.

Er, I still prefer windowed mode--it's the whole reason why I was using Windower.


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Windower is obviously a piece of software produced with labor of love--for the game, and for the fellow players. But, if having FFXI in a window is your main requirement, the built-in windowed mode works well enough.

/sigh

You were saying MMO's are not designed for console platforms. Well, why can't one be designed for console?

In fact, it's readily apparent that FFXI's UI is designed form a console, with its sparseness and nested menu. And, it works. (Not saying it's awesome--just that it works well enough for the PS2 environment.)

There's nothing inherent in the MMO(RPG) concept that a game in that category couldn't be designed for console. Or for a high-end cellphone (with Wi-Fi and large local storage capability), for that matter.

The bit on gaming history on UNIX was just to show that just because a certain game category is mostly seen on PC now, it doesn't mean it used to be that way, nor that it should stay that way. Things change.

@OP

Happens whenever you d/c using windower (or at least this is how it occurs for me).

Just restart windower after you d/c and you should be fine. This was probably already answered, but whatev.

u tell him whats funny is that his SAM is level 48

My sam is level 9 :o

And still geared better in 8/16 slots at that level!

lolololol


psquotetrain

And yet you still havent read the post have you. Will you just read it and then if you still have something smart to say, go ahead, but at the moment your posts are totally pointless.