Why does the new inventory UI show less items on Expanded than before?

[Sindele]

Come on. Seriously? 5x7 sounded like a great thing when I assumed it'd be displaying all 4 panels on one screen. I shouldn't be losing real estate from the *most used panel in the game* purely for reasons of symmetry.

E: Hahaha this makes retainers 3 pages now too. Who thought this was necessary or desirable? This is a step straight backwards in terms of UX.

E2: Copying my followup post from page 7:

So, for those who haven't seen it, the FFXIV reddit has a translated post from the Lead UI Designer Hiroshi Minagawa on the new layout. (I'm not going to reiterate it here, go read it if you're curious.)

While I understand and accept the technical limitations, I still have to confess that I'm in the camp of those who can't accept it as it is. It's certainly the right technical decision to make, but the burden the current (and still-incomplete) solution imposes upon what is essentially the most vital component of the MMO user experience during the time it will take to implement a superior display solution is a bitter pill to be told to swallow, and I'm not convinced that we couldn't have continued on with a long-term insufficient but short-term superior setup until the new one was more robustly featured.

[Indrix]

^this

The new Inventory Layout breaks my whole Storage-System! It totally annoys me... Who the hell had this idea, SE why ??

[RenofManyAlts]

First of all, thank you for the expanded inventory and for the increased stack size!

I would like to echo the perplexity of the posters above about the new inventory layout -- but for me, this is more than just an annoyance. I have a disability that has poor working memory as one of the symptoms. (Basically, I have a hard time holding arbitrary strings of information in my head temporarily.) Before, the Expanded inventory view allowed me to see all of my inventory at once, with minimal checking and re-checking to compensate. The previous inventory expansion wasn't too bad as the second pane was smaller than the first and usually held much less frequently used items. Now I am finding myself having to flip back and forth between tabs MUCH more frequently. As it stands, I may need to use workarounds like taking screenshots of my inventory.

Would it be possible to implement a third option for "mega-expanded" inventory that will put all four "bags" on the same pane again?

[FoxyMaya]

Please bring back the old expanded inventory view this new one feels like a step backwards. Like wise i had a system set up and this completely breaks that, there is almost no difference between the two inventory options now.

[Nalukai]

Thank you for more inventory, but please let us have the expanded option back (four panels, not just two).

[Tarynn]

Would it be possible to implement a third option for "mega-expanded" inventory that will put all four "bags" on the same pane again?

I really want that, the new expanded view is too small now.

[Tlamila]

I'm so happy to see it doesn't annoy just me. I liked the expanded view as I could see all items at once and it looked tidy, now not only I can't see all at once but it looks more cluttered since all the free slots are in the other tab.
And seriously, why all that added quest items inv space? I think I never filled even a row, even the old one was a load of space, why so much more? It's all really offsetting.

[Sindele]

And seriously, why all that added quest items inv space? I think I never filled even a row, even the old one was a load of space, why so much more? It's all really offsetting.

I carry an atrocious amount of mid-quest item spam, atma book, deciphered map, etc. at pretty much all times and I'd only ever gone past the first 5x5 once. Two 5x7s is a lot, but okay, just in case. *Three*, though, is bizarre.

But you know what? It'd make sense under one condition: if they intended to have a two-page setup with 4 5x7s on one and 3 key item 5x7s plus crystals on the other, just as space fillers.. Which makes it even more bizarre and incomprehensible that that layout is missing.

[Kerwin]

And here we have a prime example of SE not getting feedback prior to patch. You know a lot of games do "Test Servers" right?

[MistakeNot]

Please bring back the old expanded inventory view this new one feels like a step backwards. Like wise i had a system set up and this completely breaks that, there is almost no difference between the two inventory options now.

It is not a step backwards. It is a huge leap backwards.