THat new UI.

[Onidemon]

we all love it but i'm sure we're all wondering... why wasn't it done before, say at launch?

[Starlord]

we all love it but i'm sure we're all wondering... why wasn't it done before, say at launch?

Tanaka... Nuff said...

This is Yoshi-p's Work.. there lies the difference my friend

[Onidemon]

Tanaka... Nuff said...

This is Yoshi-p's Work.. there lies the difference my friend

And to think there were countless threads crying for Tanaka..... Long live Yoshi-P, u da man dude!

[Starlord]

And to think there were countless threads crying for Tanaka..... Long live Yoshi-P, u da man dude!

Yeah Yoshi-p did this...

Yoshi-p~ I accept this position
Team~ YAY!!

Yoshi-p~ What do we have to work with... oh look this is messed up this is messed up.. oh what the heck Tanaka why is this in here.. ok team what shall we do...

Team~ LETS BLOW UP EORZEA

Yoshi-P~ Great Plan!!

[Delsus]

Yeah Yoshi-p did this...

Yoshi-p~ I accept this position
Team~ YAY!!

Yoshi-p~ What do we have to work with... oh look this is messed up this is messed up.. oh what the heck Tanaka why is this in here.. ok team what shall we do...

Team~ LETS BLOW UP EORZEA

Yoshi-P~ Great Plan!!

LMFAO that was awesome, and an awesome idea from the team cos it lets us have a cool storyline to go with it, thumbs up Yoshi-P, if you need more thumbs up i'm sure i can borrow some friends thumbs

[Klive]

Yeah Yoshi-p did this...

Yoshi-p~ I accept this position
Team~ YAY!!

Yoshi-p~ What do we have to work with... oh look this is messed up this is messed up.. oh what the heck Tanaka why is this in here.. ok team what shall we do...

Team~ LETS BLOW UP EORZEA

Yoshi-P~ Great Plan!!

so... if you can't fix it, blow it up!

[DNO]

we all love it but i'm sure we're all wondering... why wasn't it done before, say at launch?

nope just you.

[Delsus]

we all love it but i'm sure we're all wondering... why wasn't it done before, say at launch?

It wasnt done before because Tanaka wanted to rush the game out to start making money, this backfired and Yoshi-P is being careful not to make the same mistakes as Tanaka.

[Fensfield]

Well then...

Am I the only one loving it?

No, I like it a lot. That said, I'd miss being able to hide away the secondary commands in a pull-out menu, and I hope the option will remain to have the action bar only appear when I have an engaged target. Also, it isn't the most controller-friendly-looking thing in the world; as a gamepad user I'm still very much waiting for similar detail on the gamepad-specific UI that the developers also promised. Hopefully it'll build on the good points of what we currently have; it's already pretty comfy so far as I'm concerned.

we all love it but i'm sure we're all wondering... why wasn't it done before, say at launch?

Because, I assume, the rush out the door meant that they only had time to build up one UI and systems behind it, and so attempted to hybridise one seems to have been intended for use primarily by a controller.

It wasnt done before because Tanaka wanted to rush the game out to start making money, this backfired and Yoshi-P is being careful not to make the same mistakes as Tanaka.

Yoichi Wada and the other Square-Enix executives are the ones with final say on release dates. Whether Hiromichi Tanaka said he could achieve a viable game despite the problems they were having is still in question, but the execs are the ones who had veto on when Final Fantasy XIV came out, and they chose not to block the launch in favour of further development.

Only question here is whether or not they forced it out against Tanaka's team's recommendation of if he and his team were with them on the decision. Which I find highly unlikely. No development team pushes for less time to work on a project, especially not one they know is in trouble - and Yoshida has in the past stated that the company did indeed know they were in difficulty a fair while before release.

So.. yeah. Yay new UI! Now, do please hurry up and show us similar prototypes for the gamepad one and OH LOOK TANAKA BASHING.

[irongripz]

we all love it but i'm sure we're all wondering... why wasn't it done before, say at launch?

not kidding along with why was the servers and game engine made with prehistoric crap, reused from a game made 10+ years ago?