detailed description of UI in 2.0 screenshot

So I came across this information today. It's kind of old, but I don't remember seeing it before. I figured I'd share it:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/a...tachmentid=116
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/a...tachmentid=117
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/a...tachmentid=118
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/a...tachmentid=119
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/a...tachmentid=120
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/a...tachmentid=121
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/a...tachmentid=122
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/a...tachmentid=123
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/a...tachmentid=124
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/a...tachmentid=125

Yes, it's old and yes we've all seen it already, and the UI has changed significantly since then.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Yes, it's old and yes we've all seen it already, and the UI has changed significantly since then.

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Oh, what a relief. Now I rest easy knowing that every single person has seen it already since you told me so. :P

In what ways has the UI changed? I'm curious.

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Originally Posted by Mijin

Oh, what a relief. Now I rest easy knowing that every single person has seen it already since you told me so. :P

In what ways has the UI changed? I'm curious.

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Just look at the screenshots on the official site. You know, the ones that have been released to every media outlet when E3 hit...

I guess when you live under a rock, you can miss things like this. :p

The biggest change is to the party display. Your EXP bar is shown at the top (and it's in fact the line that seperates "Solo/Light party/Full party" from the list of party members; The buff icons look drastically different, and your own TP is shown there; The UI now shows actions being currently executed by party members- if they're casting a spell, you can see their cast time bar; Crafting is apparently seeing significant changes; while on a crafting class, instead of an MP and TP bar, you have a CP (crafting points) bar. Unknown how it's actually used.

Why not just start a new thread for every outdated piece of information you haven't seen? After all, there's no guarantee that every single person has seen it.

Come on. Use your brains.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Just look at the screenshots on the official site. You know, the ones that have been released to every media outlet when E3 hit...

I guess when you live under a rock, you can miss things like this. :p

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I see very little that looks different.

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Originally Posted by Vice

Why not just start a new thread for every outdated piece of information you haven't seen? After all, there's no guarantee that every single person has seen it.

Come on. Use your brains.

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Considering people make comments on here every day like "what are the dots on the bottom right for." I hardly think this threads that inappropriate. Before you make another edgy post about how mad you are that I would have he audacity to share something with the public, take into consideration that I don't care about your opinion first.

I just listed many of the ways that it's different. If you don't see much that looks different, then I don't mean to offend but you're not very observant.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

I just listed many of the ways that it's different. If you don't see much that looks different, then I don't mean to offend but you're not very observant.

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You edited that post and added that information, at the time I made my last remark it wasn't there. Everything you mentioned is cosmetic, and none of it changes the descriptions given in the OP so I don't know what your point is. I guess you're just a rebel with out a cause.

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Originally Posted by Mijin

You edited that post and added that information, at the time I made my last remark it wasn't there. Everything you mentioned is cosmetic, and none of it changes the descriptions given in the OP so I don't know what your point is. I guess you're just a rebel with out a cause.

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Explain to me how a totally new stat for crafters is cosmetic?

Explain to me how information being displayed that wasn't displayed before is cosmetic?

Also, you didn't ask for different functionality. You just asked how it was different. It doesn't matter if it's "just" cosmetic. Many of the changes affect useability.
That "rebel without a cause" thing doesn't even make sense. I'm not "rebelling" against anything, and I do have a cause- to inform you of two things: 1) that you posted old news, and 2) that there are actually things that have changed since then. Just because the changes aren't things you care about doesn't make them not changes.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Explain to me how a totally new stat for crafters is cosmetic?

Explain to me how information being displayed that wasn't displayed before is cosmetic?

Also, you didn't ask for different funcitonality. You just asked how it was different. It doesn't matter if it's "just" cosmetic. Many of the changes affect useability.

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I'm not taking the time to explain anything to you. If you don't like the thread don't read it. If you don't like me, do us both a favor and block me.

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Originally Posted by Mijin

I'm not taking the time to explain anything to you. If you don't like the thread don't read it. If you don't like me, do us both a favor and block me.

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You're not taking the time to explain anything to me because you don't have a case. The UI has changed since those very old screenshots. We can argue about how subtle or major those changes were all day, but the fact is it has changed. That's all there is to it. It's old news.

I'm really not trying to be a jerk here- when I offer valid, accurate responses to your inquiries and you find an excuse to invalidate them just because you don't like them, you have to expect I'd be irritated.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

You're not taking the time to explain anything to me because you don't have a case.

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I'm the type of person that even when I'm wrong I can still make a case to argue about. That isn't the care here though. I just am kind of preoccupied at the moment. So I'll cut to the chase.

Most of us don't have the time to read every single bit of news put out by SE. This is new information to most people. I'm not one who accepts being b!tched at by people just because they know every single bit of information about 2.0, I'll post what ever I want. Like I said this information I posted contains details that are still accurate, regardless of the fact that some other stuff has been added to the UI, and some graphics on it have been changed.

Just because people like you think they know everything doesn't mean they need to get on every single thread about 2.0 info and go "OLD NEW OLD NEWS! DIAF!"

Oh B.A.T.C.H. UI, how much I look forward to meeting you :D

Hey guys did you know that there is a moogle primal?

"Insert slowpoke meme here"

Don't try and change the subject, just let those two fight some more. It's pretty funny

/popcorn Arguing over something meaningless...yes, there were SLIGHT changes to the UI from a few months ago to now, but it's nothing to rage about for someone not noticing it.

*shrug* I hadn't seen it before so I appreciate this thread. **lives under a rock though**

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Originally Posted by BeePee

Don't try and change the subject, just let those two fight some more. It's pretty funny

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I vote for OP, the other guy is so funny :)

Actually, now's a good time to take a look at that...

http://cdn.dualshockers.com/wp-conte...FXIV_2_002.jpg

http://www.finalfantasy-fxn.net/imag...reenshot-1.jpg

For being so separated time wise, I really don't find the images all that different. It seems more like for the sake of screenshots, certain planned UI elements have been turned off, but we don't know if they still exist for us to turn on.

All and all though it seems pretty close to conception -Though I would still like them to add the symbol use they had in the original idea.

I haven't seen this before and it's still interesting to me even though it may be outdated. Thanks for sharing ^^

For all we know the UI is exactly the same as it was before there is supposed to be all kinds of customization and stuff so how do we know that they didn't mess with it a bit and that's why things are different.

Thank you for posting this, I have yet to see this and enjoyed the post (not sarcasm).

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Yes, it's old and yes we've all seen it already, and the UI has changed significantly since then.

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Well Mr. Snarky, I hadn't seen it yet. I've seen the UI but not the explanations for it. And even though it's changed significantly since then, I must admit even if they had gone with this particular UI I would have been quite happy with the outcome. I've always found it to look very cool.

I haven't seen this UI pic before. Some people are just complete dicks on here... If you've seen it then good for you, don't troll the poster.

Instead:

1) Open the thread
2) Recognize if you've seen it.
3) (here comes the hard part) if you are uninterested or have seen it before then...*drum roll* leave the thread...

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

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I'm really not trying to be a jerk here

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You failed.

I read the forums every day and have seen the new UI. Somehow I had never seen these before and I am glad he posted them.

...and if I had seen them before I wouldn't be such a tool. It's amazing what people will do/say knowing they have full anonymity.

Thanks for sharing. I've seen the screenshots before but never saw one with details.

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Originally Posted by Arlen

You failed.

I read the forums every day and have seen the new UI. Somehow I had never seen these before and I am glad he posted them.

...and if I had seen them before I wouldn't be such a tool. It's amazing what people will do/say knowing they have full anonymity.

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I can be extremely blunt- without going into specific details as to why, that's the best way to put it. It's not really meaning to be an ass, though I recognize it sometimes happens without trying. It's just something I have to deal with.

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I'm not really sure how pretty much anyone on these forums could have missed the 2.0 images that were
1) posted on this forum multiple times over the last several weeks
2) were posted on every major community and MMO site
3) were posted on the official website
4) are still at most of those locations.

The annotated screenshot wasn't quite as heavily publicized and I can understand that one specifically. However, I was specifically discussing the new ones and how they are different from the original that was released like a year ago.

However, given the posts in this thread, I'd be concerned if I was a marketer at SE, because apparently they're doing something wrong if people are missing this....

As far as the differences, they are many- I don't know how anyone can look at the two side by side and say they look almost the same. The party panel in particular is VERY different and has new features. The action bars can be separated and can be set to run vertically as well as horizontally. Those by themselves are big changes, but crafting itself is clearly undergoing some major changes as see in in the screenshot showing a carpenter, with the "CP" bar and no MP/TP bar.

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Originally Posted by Vice

Why not just start a new thread for every outdated piece of information you haven't seen? After all, there's no guarantee that every single person has seen it.

Come on. Use your brains.

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So people who actually try to create useful topics get called out now?

Classic~

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Originally Posted by Payadopa

So people who actually try to create useful topics get called out now?

Classic~

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A repeat of a topic that's been discussed in the past's usefulness is questionable.

Check out that handy dandy search box at the top. If only people checked to see if their questions had already been answered before asking them... =\

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

A repeat of a topic that's been discussed in the past's usefulness is questionable.

Check out that handy dandy search box at the top. If only people checked to see if their questions had already been answered before asking them... =\

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I wouldn't have even thought to search this, and while we have topics talking about such as changing the summer event, I'd say this is one of the more useful ones.

Mijin's 13th thread within 8 days. Hard to take them seriously at this point.

I will comment however. Pretty UI is pretty.

Hey guys, did you hear that Kim Kardashian got a divorce!?

...............you did?

I didn't.

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Originally Posted by AsterBarnivere

Hey guys, did you hear that Kim Kardashian got a divorce!?

...............you did?

I didn't.

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When was that? ..... (Hmmm available then?)


Thanks OP. I haven't reviewed that info in a while. Get's me excited for 2.0 all over again. I forgot about them adding in Chocobo Teammates. Can't wait to pimp my Choco.

Lol, just noticed in the more recent screenshot, the DRG is level 46 in full AF.

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Originally Posted by Nightpanda2810

Lol, just noticed in the more recent screenshot, the DRG is level 46 in full AF.

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Yep, they stated it was to show it's a FF game by showing the iconic armor -- very common practice at least by SE, since in CoP screenshots everyone was in full AF even though Promyvion and Site A01/B01 were level 30 - 50 caps.

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Originally Posted by AsterBarnivere

Hey guys, did you hear that Kim Kardashian got a divorce!?

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Kardashian? Aren't those from the Star Trek series? >_>

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

Yep, they stated it was to show it's a FF game by showing the iconic armor -- very common practice at least by SE, since in CoP screenshots everyone was in full AF even though Promyvion and Site A01/B01 were level 30 - 50 caps.

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Interesting, did not know that.

I don't live under a rock and somehow I managed to miss these. For once Mijin, thank you for posting this lol.

I agree with Alhanelem you don't need to visit the forums to seen these if you ever thought hey whats the huge ass 2.0 sign on the lodestone front page im sure you seen it.

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Originally Posted by Firon

I agree with Alhanelem you don't need to visit the forums to seen these if you ever thought hey whats the huge ass 2.0 sign on the lodestone front page im sure you seen it.

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You do however have to visit the lodestone as the detailed versions aren't posted on any mainstream gaming/mmo website -- Therefore unless you actively keep up with XIV or visit lodestone, you've likely never seen the detailed (explanation) ones before.