And so it begins...

[Mychael]

For starters, I'm sure you're intelligent enough to know I'm talking about this whiny community in general, so no I do not know you. Secondly, not asking for a free mount has nothing to do with anything, and thirdly the micro menu isn't even that bad to warrant crying about 1 extra icon. As you can easily see in the screenshot, that menu isn't bad at all. Even if they added more, still wouldn't warrant the crying you're doing. I'd take this over having a bunch of icons all over my screen for my mounts like similar mmos have done, those clutter your screen.

I didn't mean to come across as "It's the end of the world!" but I think my underlying sentiment is that we're working toward the clutter you're describing with other MMOs. No, we don't have a bunch of mounts yet, so there aren't a bunch of buttons. But there's not even a clear advantage to the Goobbue mount--it's not like "I'm going to use my Goobbue to wade through the water," then you dismount him, and "Now I'll use my Chocobo to battle!" If there were a reason that we'd need both the Goobbue AND Chocobo for moving around, then I wouldn't care to have a dedicated button. But the Goobbue is unnecessary and more-or-less a novelty item. Is every event item we get (before 2.0, so no one has to remind me that the UI will change) going to get its own micro-menu icon?

Okay, so that's overdone, maybe. The Goobbue mount will probably be much better than most other event items, but IMHO I don't need a permanent Goobbue button that I can't remove.

[Hanemakikaze]

All, good No hard feelings dude, I don't want my screen turned into a small visible box eventually either.

[Biggs]

Oh god here we go...
Another person without a 50 bitching and complaining.

Why exactly do we need to be 50 to have an opinion? Also, people reroll all the time. This character that is now linked to my profile is a reroll. I have actually played regularly since beta. So the truth is, as evidenced by your brilliant statement, you have no idea wtf your talking about, and seem to make broad generalizations and assumptions in order to hide your mental ineptitude. Bravo sir.

As for the OP, it seems worse now than it will be if 2.0 is a success. Then it will be a very small percentage (ideally) of the population that has these. I think that was the idea anyway. Whether that pans out or not, we shall see. Garbage that it came with ZERO content or story really in order to obtain it.

[Bowen]

It's a tiny menu... That can be moved to wherever you please...

[Bongeh1986]

it currently fits just fine, the interface is changing immensely in 2.0, and its going to be customizable, whats the problem?

[Skies]

Truth to be told, MY screen is horribly cluttered between the action bar, statuses bar, enemy health display, chat log, minimap, party health and, in some instances, the leve status. I also believe I play on somewhat lower resolution than most people here (I think it takes like 80% of my 1094x86something screen)

So yah, the micromenu is a great idea, but it's starting to get kind of huge D: It does looks like the whole UI will be more streamlined in 2.0 so I hope thye can reduce the clutter

[Mychael]

If there were a reason that we'd need both the Goobbue AND Chocobo for moving around, then I wouldn't care to have a dedicated button. But the Goobbue is unnecessary and more-or-less a novelty item. Is every event item we get (before 2.0, so no one has to remind me that the UI will change) going to get its own micro-menu icon?

it currently fits just fine, the interface is changing immensely in 2.0, and its going to be customizable, whats the problem?

See the bolded part. I know it'll be fixed with 2.0. I don't care about the Goobbue icon. I care about the precedent of putting vanity items (that will probably rarely be used after Chocobo armor) on my micro menu, which UNTIL 2.0, I can't customize.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

Just how much stuff are they planning on squishing onto that micro-menu? And more importantly, if this is a limited item, is everyone going to see that horn and never be able to use it? Awful idea.

If you take a look at the post 2.0 UI plan pic, it does look rather busy does it not? But I do think there is a choice to have less clutter than that. Even now I take minimal items to my interface and just click explore to get to stuff I could have shortcutted by cluttering my screen up but to me, open game screen is a big deal since I'm easily distracted by shinys. :P

[Bahn]

It's a tiny menu... That can be moved to wherever you please...

That cannot be customized if additional elements are added to it.

A "tiny" menu with a row of icons that spans 200+ pixels wide (and is gradually becoming longer) is not a "tiny" menu. I'd like to be given the option to enable/disable elements of that micro menu somehow, much like the toolbar in your browser. But they have far more pressing things to do at this point, and I don't blame them for it.

[Bowen]

That cannot be customized if additional elements are added to it.

A "tiny" menu with a row of icons that spans 200+ pixels wide (and is gradually becoming longer) is not a "tiny" menu. I'd like to be given the option to enable/disable elements of that micro menu somehow, much like the toolbar in your browser. But they have far more pressing things to do at this point, and I don't blame them for it.

Who says that they won't allow us to customize it?