Sorry to the nay sayers, but I believe I need to agree with the OP on this issue. Y-P has already mentioned months ago there will be information in ARR's UI that will need us to create our own custom UI interfaces, such additional combat related info.

Unless this is going to happen by magic, I fail to see how it can happen w/o add-ons/tools.

In addition, if the API SDK is well done (versions down the road), there can be wealth of in-game information that website developers can extract and make ARR fan sites much more useful. IE: item price trends, sales history, in-box notices, guild events. mob drops/rates ... are just some of the possibilities.

I do agree that this will require additional time and by beta is siding w being insane, but then, the devs aren't programming w/ pens and pencils either. It is time to move FFVIX away from that old single player functionality era and bring in other interface possibilities to make the game a world class MMO.

jc