again there is no reasoning as to why having the chat log take up the entire BOTTOM of the screen... it just doesnt make any plausible sense to me! ventrilo people, ventrilo!
it dont have to be that big or stay at the bottom of the screen, ffxi you can access anything from macro or the menu without having a big window to swap skills.

XI's UI looked and felt like a Final Fantasy interface (looks better on higher resolutions) -- XIV's as said is trying to mimic the ugly generic MMORPG design.
when the addon's come im going, square got used to making crappy games after ffxi. FFX, FFXII, FFXIII were short no world map, and simple point to point. the past 6 years almost every dev been on the casual band wagon and lost there touch and do nothing but heavly copy each other

when will square start calling attribute poinst, "talent points" @_@, there already swaping out all the FFXI terms out with wow terms