The FF14 Devs needs to go play other MMOs

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Originally Posted by GreyJorildyn

My problem with the UI is that each widget is intended to go into in a very specific place. The first offender is the party widget where buffs run from right to left and party members add from bottom to top. I cannot feasibly place this widget on the left side of my screen because then I will not see my party member's buffs.

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I never thought of this but you're absolutely right.

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Originally Posted by GreyJorildyn

Second offender is the leve mission box. It was meant to go in that top-left spot because the frame is decorated as such.

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I have my map in the upper-left corner and my leve panel in the upper-right. I've never had an issue with it there, and it doesn't bother me that the main menu covers it since I never need both components at the same time.

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Originally Posted by GreyJorildyn

SE, you need to lose the fancy framing crud and make a UI that is practical instead of pretty. I am serious. If you are going to make a UI with movable widgets, you can't design them to go in one place only.

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I'll go one further. Given that the game doesn't allow you to willingly move widgets outside the current resolution, if I start the client and the last position of one of those widgets is outside the current res, then thoughtfully move it, please. Otherwise if I lower my resolution, I have to reset all the widgets and move everything again. I know people don't change resolution often, but this is a standard error-case that needs to be handled in a system like this.

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Originally Posted by GreyJorildyn

Furthermore, give us a UI editing mode (see Rift for most recent example) and don't let us drag them around freely because if they're not "locked" in normal play mode, we accidentally grab widgets and drag them around when using the mouse. That is so frustrating; you have no idea...

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Yes yes yes. I used to do this all the time, before I got sick of it and I moved the status icon panel off from the center of the screen. I kept trying to target enemies through it...

I'm a big supporter of Square Enix and I've made enough excuses for them with my own guild. As a leader of a guild, I've had to constantly remind them that things can't be changed instantaneously. I keep telling them that it takes months to fix certain things like the UI, but those months have gone and passed. A few players keep using the term overnight, but it's been over half a year. There is currently a huge void in MMO release and I think it's the perfect time for Square Enix to take advantage of it. Once games like Guild Wars 2, SWOR, Diablo III, TERA, and Archeage Online gets released, there's going to be a lot of competition. Square Enix still have the FF supporters, but how long is that going to last with the current state of the game? I have high hopes for SE, but I hope they are putting all their efforts into getting it right.

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

And why do you assume they don't already have a generic idea about it? What makes you think they're not aware of the shortcomings?

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If they were aware of the shortcomings they wouldn't have acted so surprised when everyone told them how crappy their game is the day after retail release.

By the way, isn't Yoshi P. a producer? I guess that's where the problems started, lack of communication between the team.

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Originally Posted by Tenku

By the way, isn't Yoshi P. a producer? I guess that's where the problems started, lack of communication between the team.

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The problems started with Tanaka, long before Yoshi.P took over. Unlike Yoshi, Tanaka had barely any MMO experience at all, and it shows at every corner.

Screw other mmo's tell them to go play ff 6 through 9 and xi.

They should play FFXIV lol i think that would help as well... looking at the game and how clunky everything still is... i doubt they play this. They might just login get bored and pissed, and log off again :D