Is the UI overhaul still a priority?

[Sephr]

The UI is really not fine. It definitely needs a pretty major overhaul in the future, it looks horrible and archaic (Menus and such I mean, I quite like the basic screen UI) and needs some serious cleaning up. They should ditch a lot of the server-side stuff too.
Considering the gorgeous looking menu systems of even FFXIII, it's pretty disappointing to be subjected to such an awful looking piece in the next game of the FF series.

For fucks sake, do you ever stop complaining?

He pretty much doesn't, and then makes 'baww' threads about getting no thumbs up, lols.

Edit: I should clarify, whilst I do think the current UI is piss, the other things like content and battle systems should definitely come first and foremost.

[Starlord]

The UI is really not fine. It definitely needs a pretty major overhaul in the future, it looks horrible and archaic (Menus and such I mean, I quite like the basic screen UI) and needs some serious cleaning up. They should ditch a lot of the server-side stuff too.
Considering the gorgeous looking menu systems of even FFXIII, it's pretty disappointing to be subjected to such an awful looking piece in the next game of the FF series.



He pretty much doesn't, and then makes 'baww' threads about getting no thumbs up, lols.

Edit: I should clarify, whilst I do think the current UI is piss, the other things like content and battle systems should definitely come first and foremost.

Cant please everyone

[Sephr]

Cant please everyone

The name 'Starlord' doesn't please me, so, yeah, you can't.

[Starlord]

The name 'Starlord' doesn't please me, so, yeah, you can't.

Sorry im not to your liking =)

[gifthorse]

What is your guys' problems? Was it something I said?

[Starlord]

Always Gifthorse Always

[Seif]

Let me put it this way XI has probably the worst menu navigation I've seen in a game but XIV took the no.1 prize in that competition in few minutes.

Why I can't even access all the menus on a controller in XIV!

Other fun things:

-Skillbar is to the XI spell menu what Tabasco is for a cake. Once you end up in a wrong row you're probably taking 3 punches to the face before you find the skill you're looking for.

-...Which is insane since XIV skill bar let's you use about 1/4th of the skills that were available to me in XI lol

-Why the hell is the equipment screen such a mess? Honestly did the devs even TRY to navigate from head to pouches using a D-pad?! Honestly as punishment they should do 20 000 equipment swaps on a controller.

-Fishing ('nuff said)

-Just let me eat this useless Culinarian item real quick...wait...I CAN'T!

-It's understandable that chatlog gets 99 999 lines of spam even on the most minimum log settings but it would be nice to access the text in full-screen while auto running over the copypasteville to see what that NPC said

Reducing the menu lag was a massive improvement but after that I haven't seen any of the real issues being adressed in any way.

[gifthorse]

Tanaka mentioned a new UI being worked on that would be ready during Feb or March or something.

I imagined it to be an entire upheaval of the original system and supplanted with something similar to the Microsoft Windows UI (with lots of customisation and resizable windows) or a Flash-based UI or something.

[Renshi]

Heya!

I guess they working on a new Battle System means a re-control of the UI. We'll be able to exploit the problems that will merge from the new UI by Yawping In These F**CKING FORUMS LIKE LITTLE BI- giving constructive suggestion on how to give a better User Experience.

So basically yes. In my opinion, they revamping the Battle System means working on the UI too and adapt it to both PC and PS3 users.

See ya!

[Dizmo]

The current priority is now fixing the engine, the server interaction coding and the convoluted AH system. At least that's what it should be.