I'm Thinking of Selling My Soul to the Digital Devil...

[Wolf Kanno]

Thank you so much for putting up with my incessant questions. Thank you Yeargdribble for the lowdown on the jobs as well as everyone else's insight.

Well I picked up the game today and downloaded it the computer, regretfully I am having issues downloading the updates to PlayOnline (which is really amusing since I've always had issues doing anything with playonline even back when FFIX's horrid guide was featured their.)

Basically, my internet keeps disconnecting while trying to download, I've been making sure not to browse or anything so the program can do it's job but it still insists on fighting me. This does seem to be an ill omen though... I really hope this isn't a glimpse of what it will do when I'm actually playing.

Hopefully I'll get it sorted out, at least it starts up where I left off when I'm downloading.

[Yeargdribble]

Sadly that's not terribly uncommon. POL was meant to be something to add other games to, but since those games jumped ship, POL is just superfluous crap that make you click another 20 times to log in. It's terribly clunky and getting the download to work sucks because every time you DC it has to check every single file again before even attempting to download, by which time you've probably DC'd again. It's frustrating for sure.

[Wolf Kanno]

Good lord... I thought I should update.

Well I finally got everything downloaded, even the patches. Then my internet program crashed. I got it "fixed". But everytime I try to play XI, PlayOnline gets a disconnection error, then either PlayOnline or my internet connection crashes... This usually happens when I get to the screen that asks to either create or load a character... I have seen the beautiful intro and nothing more...

I'm beginning to wonder if I even got past creating a character and getting on a server if this problem wouldn't keep occuring. PlayOnline is just horribly non-user friendly and SE seriously needs to overhaul and streamline it now that online gaming is becoming more prevalent. My internet program is also pretty damn glitchy and I think it mistakes everything for a virus (including itself)...

I either need to give up for the moment or work towards fixing my internet problems. Oiy...

[Rostum]

SE has a huge record for bad customer service.

What exactly is your Internet "program"? If you are running directly into an Ethernet cable, you don't need any programs.

[Wolf Kanno]

SE has a huge record for bad customer service.

What exactly is your Internet "program"? If you are running directly into an Ethernet cable, you don't need any programs.

I have dial up I'm afraid. My service is People PC, it's cheap but really buggy. I just updated it so hopefully I might get some changes.

[Markus. D]

before entering the game.

Go into the start menu and Config FFXI (FFXI Config).

That way you can play to your computer's graphical settings when/if you get to enter :]

[nozkits]

IMHO, everything is great and I dont think it is quite ready to roll over considering the new expansion pack...

One concern is very deadly about the game though...That is...addiction...(and elitism but hey, that comes with the territory)

Eletism I can handle, addiction kinda worries me. Most of my friends are WoW addicts and that... is just plain damn scary... One of them wears a shirt that reminds him to eat real food, not just the in-game type

I noticed the expansion so I guess the series may have some more life to it. That's good to hear.

don't worry. As long as you don't pretend to synthesize items in the real world then all is well.

[Jessweeee♪]

Oooh, oooh! If you decide to play, remember, CERBERUS SERVER!!!