Traditional Final Fantasy UI for battles.

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Originally Posted by thedevilsjester

So...what is FFXI then? It uses the classic FF menu as requested by the OP, and it does a great job with it.

lol'd.

Oh wait, you were serious?

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Originally Posted by thedevilsjester

So...what is FFXI then? It uses the classic FF menu as requested by the OP, and it does a great job with it. I used it exclusively. Even with my WHM. And never had any issues with speed, timing, or anything of the sort. Especially with a controller, there is little to no speed difference between navigating left/right to find the right icon, and navigating through a classic menu system.

That being said, I rather enjoy the current FFXIV UI, and think that it will appeal to more MMORPG fans, even if its not as...FF as it could be.

Your point makes no sense, as FFXI also has an extensive macro system, which I extended further with windower macros (and don't bring your windower rubbish in here, it is a vital flaw in a games design when it cannot run in full screen mode without crashing on alt tab).

Each of my macros were around 25 lines long, and had every slot gear changes, and were all instantly at my fingertips. Neither menu based UI's offer the same functionality, so why clutter it up further? Don't pick out tiny parts of peoples posts and make that your focus, keep things in context please.

I played FFXI and Menu systems can work for long battles that don't require much input. There just so happened to be a lot of these kinds of encounters in FF11.... FFXIV, outside of NMs I suppose there aren't any really long battles.

Not saying that it couldn't work or that it can't be good, but I don't think it will be implemented.