The interface is sucking my soul

[Bahn]

The interface overall isn't as bad as people say. The real issue is that it's so obnoxiously slow. If I have to wait nearly four seconds for an item to be removed/shuffled/sold/transferred in my inventory, the system is broken.

This, a billion times this.

I dread going to my retainer because the interface TAKES TOO ****ING LONG to do anything useful with. I have the same sort of dread when I go to NPCs to sell/buy items. It's just too - damn - SLOW.

[Kymusashi]

For the UI, the drawing board is irellevent, the beginning is irellevent, we shall add your biological and technological distinctivness to our own, resistance if futile. Sorry had to get that one in there, but seriously in alpha we could target crystals and with the UI it was terrible, which is why they stopped it, but now the UI has improved they reimplemented it.

They know they failed and are learning from it, which is what matters, where have you been for the last year?

There are still doors you have to open a menu just to target, so no, they aren't really learning, are they?

Maybe you missed my first post where I already said things were getting better? I'm not saying things aren't going anywhere. I don't know why you're trying to prove me wrong, because you really can't since you're just saying things i've already agreed to before you replied to me...

[Bahn]

LOL, you picked out a video @ Launch lol. thats why its slow then, right now its not really that slow ( at least to me) and I dont wait for more than 4 seconds , maybe 2 tops but not 4 lol

Sit your ass down at a retainer that has 100+ items and try swapping something in from your inventory to the retainer's inventory that the retainer does not have and record it for us. It has not improved in any way. It's still just as slow and clunky as AmyRae pointed out. It takes "2 seconds tops" when the retainer already has a multiple of that item, but if it's an item the retainer does not have, it takes just as that long.

[Starlord]

Sit your ass down at a retainer that has 100+ items and try swapping something in from your inventory to the retainer's inventory that the retainer does not have and record it for us. It has not improved in any way. It's still just as slow and clunky as AmyRae pointed out. It takes "2 seconds tops" when the retainer already has a multiple of that item, but if it's an item the retainer does not have, it takes just as that long.

Ignorant people, will be Ignorant people. I only said how it is "to me". Don't tell me how it is for me, I'm not saying its the best, but its certainly not not crap as some people point it out to be.

Its my opinion

[captainpicard]

Even if the transactions take awhile, with the right interface you could queue several transactions at once. The transactions in WoW aren't always immediate, but because you can keep clicking on everything you want to sell, it's not painful at all. It's the one-by-one item interface in FFXIV that aggravates the experience, making each transaction delay that much more excruciating.



(I do realize that the UI in FFXIV has been cleaned up a bit to require fewer clicks since this video was posted over a year ago, but fundamentally, the transaction delay problem is the same.)

When the game launched, you better not drag your mouse over your item list. Holy cow. It was like the server sent a check as you moused over items to confirm that "your mouse is on item x" haha

OMG I use to purposely maneuver the mouse around the buy and sell items because the game would "clock" badly if you got the mouse on top of an item that required a server interaction.

It was truly one of those laugh or cry things. How was it even POSSIBLE that they released it like that.

[irongripz]

some of you are gona hate 2.0 lol

[Phen]

Agreed. However unless we get part of it before 2.0 I assume all of us will be sad pandas in the interim.

[captainpicard]

Agreed. However unless we get part of it before 2.0 I assume all of us will be sad pandas in the interim.

I looked into by Square ball, and saw a lot of ongoing slow menu navigation during the run up to 2.0.