Finally my copy of Wings of the Goddess has arrived. It was just a matter of putting the DVD in the drive and let install the measly 350+ Mb of update (rather low for a DVD). As usual, Square Enix’s installation program is greedy with regards to information. Once it was installed, I enabled the expansion in PlayOnline and was good to go (save a 20,000+ file check).
The title clearly shows what I think about the aforementioned company. The reason surfaced a few days ago, when I tried to see if they would ship Wings of the Goddess to Italy. I had ordered from them a few times before, and although their customer service left a lot to be desired, I couldn’t complain much.
Two days ago I found that they will no longer ship anything to Italy. I mean, they will to other European countries, but not here. The big question here is why? What has Italy possibly done? I contacted their customer support and I just got a rather uninformative answer such as “we do not ship or take orders from your country”. Very nice, Gamestop.
If that’s the way they treat people who want to buy from them, I guess I’ll go elsewhere.
With the new version update, these strange portals have been appearing throughout Vana’diel. They’re supposedly the gateways to the past, but since I don’t have Wings of the Goddess yet I can’t really see what will they do. Nevertheless, I was curious and went to take a look at them.
They’re huge. I estimate at least twice the height of my character. For those curious, here are two photos (one is of my brother’s character, the other is mine):
And so, with yesterday’s update, FFXI has gained a windowed mode. This has been a much-requested feature from the playerbase, especially from people who didn’t want to use the “unofficial” windower.
However, being the first major touch to the rendering engine, I think something got broken along the way. Mainly, I’m talking about a 20% performance drop of the engine (which didn’t shine before, but that’s another matter).
