A Realm Reborn Items Menu

[Allistar]

Hello guys!
I was wondering if i was the only one thinking how stupid the 2.0 item menu looks and how it looks exactly like most of other mmo's? Like Aion and WoW and Runes of Magic..... Why not continue with an item list like XI had? it was great so we could see all the items in just a menu, and also just order the items on the list... instead of maybe ordering the items and checking all the tabs to see where the ICON is or just keep selecting all items to check their names.... In my opinion, this new items menu is silly and it wont be any better of what we currently have but actually prob worst. I hate the new item menu looks and i think XIV is copying way too much from other mmo's instead of innovating stuff and putting diferent ways of menus and all that than all other mmo's. All i heard ppl from WoW saying about games that has something like WoW is "Oh look... another WoW copy, they are so good that they cant make their own stuff and actually have to copy". I was mostly looking for 2.0 to bring new good looking stuff instead of copy of other mmo's that i already played. "We want to make it easy for players that come from other mmo's to have the an easy time getting into the game", so with that they started copying their menu looks and some features because it will happen to make the other ppl's 'getting into the game experience' easyer? Seriously, in all this long, i though XIV was gonna look really good and with alot of new stuff, but aperently they just changed stuff to copy's of other mmo's.

I know its too late to change alot of the actualy menus, but the Items menu its what makes me rly sad about 2.0 that we know so far.

Your post has my vote...

[Allistar]

yea, like XI is not "other mmo"..

XI is not other mmo's that try to be like WoW or try harder to not be like WoW and still end up doing a terrible job.

[Tiago]

Because for people using keyboard and mouse, menus with list and s**t you have to scroll through are terrible. There's a reason why most modern MMOs have icon based menus: it's because you can fit a lot more s**t in a single window and you make it faster to navigate.

You know by pressing left key it whould just scroll down an entire 'page' of items right? a 'page' is composed by 10 items, and it whould scroll from 10 in 10. Was easy enough not to search the damn icons and we could actually see the names of the items. I'm sure after a shizload of farming diferent items or grinding u'll have alot of diferent icons to look at while searching for a certain item no?

[Antanias]

omnom nom Thankssh you...

Can I haz milk?

Had to go to the store, so I got some extra milk for ya

[Hycinthus]

Personally, I don't think that copying UI means you're copying WoW. If you copy the content, battle system, job, then yes, that's copy pasting. But woW's UI is pretty much a standard. It's just using a standard.

If you want to make a new keyboard, you know where Backspace is located, where Enter is located, where ESC is located, and you definitely expect to see CTRL ALT, TAB, CAPS LOCK. In my opinion, using WoW's UI as template is fine. It is, after all, the template almost all MMOs out there use.

[HiirNoivl]

Had to go to the store, so I got some extra milk for ya

The ponies are saved!

[Ingolf]

I don't know how I feel about you.

If you hate it because you legitimately think it looks bad, fair enough.

If you hate it because it's 'copying' wow and 'other mmos' then you should just leave.

[Firon]

Funny how everyone says FF fans cry so much about how this game deviates from core FF...but let blizzard put out another WoW game that has nothing similar to its behemoth and we'll see who'll be carrying pitchforks and torches...
Its not asking much to have XIV feel like XI...or carry on some similar tradition from previous FF games...heaven forbid.

Well you should be crying how FFXI is everquest then.

[TimonLoon]

Because for people using keyboard and mouse, menus with list and s**t you have to scroll through are terrible. There's a reason why most modern MMOs have icon based menus: it's because you can fit a lot more s**t in a single window and you make it faster to navigate.

Ding ding ding we have a winner. Theres a possibility that the controller UI will go back to an item list but for mouse and keyboard what they displayed at Gamescom 2012 is far superior to what we have now.

[Wolfie]

You know by pressing left key it whould just scroll down an entire 'page' of items right? a 'page' is composed by 10 items, and it whould scroll from 10 in 10. Was easy enough not to search the damn icons and we could actually see the names of the items. I'm sure after a shizload of farming diferent items or grinding u'll have alot of diferent icons to look at while searching for a certain item no?

Yes, I know what page down is. Did you know with a mouse, I can just skip the whole "page down 4 times, then go up 3" thing, and click directly on the item?