Quote Originally Posted by Jinko View Post
If you are a noob maybe, it only takes a couple of hours to get used to where actions are placed on an action bar....
I wasn't saying that you have to stare at the screen and scroll back and forth b/c you don't know what actions you have equipped. I was saying that the action bar is more distracting b/c you can't help but scroll through the lists to see if your timers are back up.

Quote Originally Posted by Jinko View Post
I think you will find that text is more primitive than on screen graphics.
And I wasn't disputing the primitivity of a text display. I was simply stating that "ooo, pretty" icons are about the worst substitutions conceivable...Plenty of ppl play with controllers, and ps3 players obviously will too; so, to justify the action bar just b/c it's easy to navigate w/ a keyboard and mouse isn't a valid argument. I knew console players who didn't even own/use keyboards.

If FFXIV wanted to appease the PC gamer, rather than the console players, then they should have just said from the beginning that they had NO PLANS to release XIV to consoles, EVER. It would have saved us all a lot of time and disappoinment.