High-res font = yay; Now, how about the title screen?

[Eric]

I'm glad that they are deciding to do this. I think the UI is one of the most important parts of a game. It's the part of the game you stare at the most, and it's also how you make all of your interactions with it.

[Francisco]

For chat backgrounds, I'd like to see some semi-transparent black or a Darkshade of blue.

[Juilan]

Will it be possible to add another log window in the space that resizing would create, so we can set up different logs? For example, it’d be really great if we could have one window as the battle log and another one for chat. I’d also really appreciate it if we could customize the size of the text in the log window.

We are not currently planning multiple windows for “the current system.”

As we are working within the limitations of the current UI, we are a bit limited with the things we can do.
While we are working on things that we can, like the Windows version resolution improvements, we have actually begun looking into completely revamping the entire UI. Of course this is going to take some time, so once I have more information, I will be sure to share it with you.

For our next step, we are planning to address higher resolution text fonts and separate resolution settings for the overlay graphics resolution and menus.

I think this person is referring to what can be done with FFXIV, I enjoyed the battle and the talking windows... The issue with doing that on FFXI is : in FFXIV the text is on a different server port, the text log keeps working while dcing and you could in theory log in to the chat server remotely....
On FFXI the chat server is shared with the game connection... so that cannot be done on the same stream... oddly if ffxi had the same set up as FFXIV when it came to chatting we could have shouts that work in all cities without a lot of lag...

[Kaisha]

For chat backgrounds, I'd like to see some semi-transparent black or a Darkshade of blue.

I don't know why they can't just give us another window slider for controlling transparency levels.

[Ryce]

New UI <<Yes please.>> I love it ^^

[FrankReynolds]

Being able to split chat and battle into 2 logs would be omfgamazing. Also, not squinting at my high res screen would be a nice change.

[Dragoy]

2) I like the PS2 controller and using my TV screen. Yeah, I wish I could get some of the clutter of the screen at times and better resolution will do that, but I feel comfortable with it, so it's my choice to play this way.

3) It still works, I've been playing on it for 7 years, with a controller and USB Keyboard (for chatting) - why take the time to get used to everything all over again on PC?

You know it's possible to play with a controller on the PC as well? You can even use a Playstation controller if you have an adapter for it. ^^

All it means is anyone will be able to resize and move their chat log however and wherever they want it, if they want to.

It's not quite that freely adjustable. If you haven't tried it out on the test-server, it is just as I expected, stuck in the lower-left corner, and you can adjust the size between set steps similar to how you can set the maximum/minimum lines visible, only that you can do it more to the up than before, as well as to the left/right.

I tried playing with it a bit, still not sure if I can get used to it not filling the whole lower area lol.
It is good to see that they are playing around with the UI, and even considering further changes.

Keep it up!

[Helel]

Revamping the UI almost makes me think they still care about this game. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

[Darkvalkyr]

I really really hope the change to the UI isn't going to be drastic.

I don't know why people complain about XI's UI, I've found it to be one of the most convenient, fastest UI in most areas bar certain parts.

[Alhanelem]

The FFXIV team gave us a sneak peek of what the UI will look like a year from now. If it's going to undergo major changes, how about whetting our appetites with a sneak peek too?

I really really hope the change to the UI isn't going to be drastic.

I don't know why people complain about XI's UI, I've found it to be one of the most convenient, fastest UI in most areas bar certain parts.

You probably haven't played many other MMOs. The only concieveable strong point of FFXI's UI system is how basic it is. It lacks in information given, lacks in intelligent design (e.x. UI widgets covering up other UI widgets when they shouldn't), is almost unusable with the mouse (which drives a lot of would-be PC players off), is barely customizable at all, doesn't allow you to directly hotkey spells and abilities or many other functions for that matter, and has stupid rules for when you can and can't use certain functions ("You must close the currently open window to use that command").

The biggest problem is inability to customize. The ability to resize the log window is the best little baby step in that direction in a very long time.

I agree drastic changes would be very jarring to long time players, but it will be no more difficult to adjust to than when you learned it for the first time.