A consern about space efficieny since stormblood is not getting enough space increase

[Shurrikhan]

The UI changes that will impact pretty much every time you're in combat versus the times you come across appearances that you want to keep on hand but are running out of space to hold...a practice that not every player engages in anyway.

Sorry chief, the UI changes have the bigger impact on the game.

Sounds like they have their priorities in the correct order.

As far as attracting new players goes, I'd agree, but for veterans who are already used to tracking their status buffs together on a single bar? Honestly, I'm going to be far more ticked than pleased if I have to start looking at both by character and my status bar to consider how my CDs are syncing up with my mechanical durations, or especially if I lose an exact timer on, say, Greased Lightning or Blood of the Dragon. I'm already very used to the status bar; I have zero need for the revision and worry that it may add to gaudy and obscuring character (e.g. oGCD buff) animations that I'd really like a little less of so that I could better the floor beneath me. Space, on the other hand, is what keeps me from leveling my crafters, as I'm apparently just far too stubborn in my principles to purchase an extra retainer, and don't want to regather glamours later. If anything, just increasing the graphical size and/or resolution of the status buffs icons would be plenty, so they're not minuscule by default or blurry if (gasp) we want our duration counters (e.g. at 110%) to be at least as large as the smallest possible size of our hotbar counters (mana/tp costs at 60%).

[Zojha]

Sorry chief, the UI changes have the bigger impact on the game.

Mhm... we'll see about that. The UI changes do not change anything except display, so the impact they have on the game is measured by the amount of people who are able to keep their respective buffs up afterwards as opposed to before. It might even be negative. Time will tell!

[Berethos]

As someone who has been through several changes to UI features in other games and had to get used to the "new way" to do it...

You may like how you do it now, but if they implement it well then the changes will improve your experience with the game, even if you don't like the idea of it now (some people are resistant to change, I get that). Also, the idea that vet players wouldn't gladly accept something that makes playing their job easier is kinda silly.

And honestly, even if you don't like it because of preference, it still has a bigger impact on more people.

It's a QoL style change that impacts everyone who plays the game and has been asked for in one way or another for almost 4 years.

[Berethos]

Mhm... we'll see about that. The UI changes do not change anything except display, so the impact they have on the game is measured by the amount of people who are able to keep their respective buffs up afterwards as opposed to before. It might even be negative. Time will tell!

They change the display for everyone.

Not everyone holds on to gear or items or spends time collecting glamour gear - a glamour log only really impacts the players that do engage in this practice. It's a major impact for those players, of course, and they should work on implementing it, but to act like it's going to have the bigger impact and should be higher on the list than certain other features is simply a case of misplaced priorities.

Thus the bigger impact for QoL UI changes.

[Zojha]

They change the display for everyone.

And whether that's gonna impact you or not depends on the individual. I can easily see it being pointless clutter for those who already get by with the current UI that people will try to remove in the UI settings ASAP. It might also obscure the vision to more important things compared to the previous display without being a significant improvement in visibility. It might actually distract you from more important things if it's flashy. It might also help people.

Hence, why I reserve judgement.

That said: I don't think something with questionable benefit in both scale and scope should have a high priority. I'd rather work on things that have a guaranteed benefit.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

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But I am somehow not surprised that inventory and glamour is so low on their list..I mean it was Yoshida himself that said that we just should throw the glamour away and not hoard it because we can just get it again..like its totally easy and fast to get it again >_>. (Even unsynch you really need good RNG to even see a certain item..lets not talk about all the instances with synch..)
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Once, I wanted the doctore hora for monk glamor when leveling that job...
(Before we had emperor's new hora)

Did halatali unsynched more than 35 times before getting it...

[Lycieus]

The UI changes that will impact pretty much every time you're in combat versus the times you come across appearances that you want to keep on hand but are running out of space to hold...a practice that not every player engages in anyway.

Sorry chief, the UI changes have the bigger impact on the game.

Sounds like they have their priorities in the correct order.

In a game like WoW, where the UI can actively obfuscate things from you, this sort of move makes more sense. I feel like XIV does a pretty good job as is communicating what you need to do when, or that anyone who cares to know how to do their rotation can find the resources needed to help with this.

The priority here seems to be new players, which in a sense is logical, since you are going to have player churn in any MMO. It's a double-edged sword though. If you alienate your existing player base, you will actively contribute to this churn.

Anecdotally, most existing players engage with the glamour system. You seem to be enforcing the false dichotomy that content to one group of players necessitates that you lose content in some area you care about. This can be the case, but usually isn't. The development team is divided into sub-groups that each have a project to work on, devoting resources to one project, does not necessarily mean it will starve other areas of content. All of that being said, this job specific UI would compete with a glamour log for resources, but only because I suspect Square would just modify the armoire UI to accommodate a glamour log.

[Driavna]

In a game like WoW, where the UI can actively obfuscate

That only happen if your interface is badly configured, like a player using add-ons similar to bigwigs with default settings. Of course it's going to do more harm than good.

FFXIV lack a lot of important options, especially to track personal buff/procs/CDs in a more consolidate (and clear) way. There is a reason why hardcore guilds request a screenshot of your interface, the impact in your performance is there.

Sure some players don't care about this, hate changes or don't want to put some extra effort into setting up their UI... bad luck to be them.

[Shougun]

Have to agree with Driavna.. if your interface is set up poorly in WoW sure you have a problem, but once you set it up.. imo WoW UI is much much better. (But you have to consider that is in part to adding and using addons correctly). FFXIV is the iPhone here and WoW the android- you get a lot if you learn it vs it being pretty easy right out the gate.

[enthauptet]

The only complaint I've ever heard anyone I have played with in game with the buffs, etc. is that in 24 person bosses you can't keep track of your buffs bc they don't even show up on the bar for you to see. That has nothing to even do with buffs it is damage skills so I hope this new UI is not a huge waste of time.

With that being said inv space is a bigger problem to gameplay than 24 person dots not showing up.