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[Pandastirfry]

Legacy players, can you describe 1.0's UI? I've heard reports on how god awful it was, but why was it so bad? from screenshots the basic concept seemed fairly similar to XI

It was fairly similar to XI (largely menu based) and that was the problem... Many things which could have been achieved with a simple right click function (like opening doors, interacting with the environment, etc) required openin the menu really breaking flow. (For example now you can sit in chairs by just typing /sit, in 1.0 if you typed /sit you'd sit on top of the chair, to sit IN the chair you had to open the main menu and select the sit icon in the context menu) Add on top of the clunkyness of the UI it was also horribly laggy. Things were buried in sub menu and the whole thing was a fairly unintuitive mess in places. It felt like a menu designed for use with a console and never intended for a PC