FINALLY!

[Yeargdribble]

Part of me is thinking, "Better late than never."

The other part of me is thinking, "A day late and a dollar short."

I'm glad they are listening to the community, but it's a bit late. Almost since the beginning of the PC release in Japan people have been begging for a windowed mode. Just now they finally hear our cries after adamantly stating many times that they would never make a windower (because it would make it so easy to cheat).

I think waiting so long to do this is gonna bite them. A lot of people have gotten used to the old windower and the less invasive plugins. I like TParty when duoing with my wife so that we don't have to constantly yell TP at each other across the room, or worse, in log spamming macros. Additionally, people have gotten used to using extended macros. For jobs like BRD, RDM, BLM and some other jobs to a small extent, this ability is almost mandatory to endgame proficiency. It sometimes has taken me up to 4 macros just for gear swaps for a single song. It's ridiculous to have to do that in a game where the gear is set apart only in tiny shades so that you must macro everything situationally to be the best you can be in tight endgame situations.


So, if people that are addicted to the old windower are having trouble making themselves swap that could be bad. I have the feeling SE is gonna crackdown on banning people for windower use in the very near future now. For those too stubborn to give up the windower that has become part of their normal routine, it could mean some mass bannings.

Some of you will say, "Good!!! Ban the cheating scum!!!" I think the problem is a little deeper than that though. Just as before the official windower, I think SE would be shooting themselves in the foot if they actually went after everyone that used windower.

They didn't nip the problems in the bud and now it's slowly killing their game. Only seeing FFXI slowly approaching its death throes have they decided to actually participate in the development of their game. However, so many people already got disgusted and left the game over various things. Bad economy run by RMT, BST nerf with {Leave} and things like SE screwing up Ulli. Trying to fix the problems the way they are now is only further destroying their game.

Now that they've finally started mass banning RMT, the economy is being destroyed as money constantly gets raped out of it. Crafting has become essentially unprofitable even at 100. The prices for Dynamis and Limbus are absolute insane now considering the weakness of gil.

There game is based around hard work, grinding, time sinks and community. If they on the heads of their hardcore endgamers, they are gonna end up slowly destroying the game.