Quote Originally Posted by 'Duese',index.php?page=Thread&postID=207418#post20 7418
I don't understand this, how did they do an awful job of porting it to windows?
I agree with the above comment not making much sense. In regards to how they did a poor job at porting the game over to PC, well... FFXI is a resource hog. I think that's the real reason behind their initial full screen only, no tabbing system they had set up. The game sucked up so much CPU time that they were probably too embarrassed to have it be realized. They, of course, then claimed it was by design since, "PS2 players can't alt tab to look up information online." Well, you're right. They dont' alt-tab to look up info online, they just pivot their chair over to their PC to do it.

Of course, years later, after hardware specs got a bit better and better computers were most likely used to run FFXI, they finally bit the bullet and opened up a Windowed option. Of course, even then the implemention of the officlal Windower was less efficient than the Windowers made by 3rd parties. haha

All that being said, I still miss FFXI! And while I doubt I'll ever play it again, I definitely will pick up FFXIV. I just hope it's earlier 2010 and not later 2010. Probably won't be 'til Q3 or Q4, though.