Thread: Micro Mouse Menu the return of 1.0 UI Logic pt 1

So many of you have seen this thing of a micro menu where you click a menu to get a menu to get to the menu you want, sounds familiar?

In a recent post the development team claim that to add all the functions to it for 2.1 it would require 3 rows of buttons, ok so first off PVE, housing and treasure maps I guess seriously I can't think of anything useful that would warrant another 4 buttons and as another user suggest why not simply give us the choice to decide between the condensed micro menu and the larger one, I mean SE biggest brag was the UI was totally customizable.

So lets go over why this hated so much, well firstly I say about 80% of users are probably 1920x1080 so with that said the dark grey boxes with very small white text is pretty unreadable unless you look closely and for me having eye sight issues I have to blow the icons up in size so it takes even more space on my screen defeating the purpose of saving screen space.

The second most hated thing about this micro menu is it supposed to be a quick click feature before I could click a button go to free company page or one click action menu but now I have to click the right button hope it has what am looking for look through a tiny text menu to click on what am looking for and not click the wrong one as the menus are so finicky its a 50/50 chance of hitting the right thing... how is this quick click?

Finally this whole lets click a menu to get a menu to go to the menu...... Did we learn nothing from 1.0? Hell if you insistence on going this route why don't you just remove the micro menu and bring back the old 1.0 esc menu why you had a list on the right hand side at least the text here was readable and you can fit all of the junk feature your trying to claim that would take up 3 rows of the Micro buttons.

Well as for my final thoughts I will not be using the micro menu from now on instead I will just use the hot keys instead until this feature is changed back fix or hell just burn it with fire along with the other unsold 1.0 game discs.

Sorry for this being broken up but the damn restriction on how many characters for text that can be used is total bull! and deserves its own topic of discussion

You can go back and edit a post to get around the restriction.

I do agree that the new micro menu is a serious pain in the ass from a UI design perspective. My fiance likes it, but he's weird. I don't like the extra searching and clicks it takes to find everything, and some of the grouping is seriously unintuitive.

Yeah, i miss my two rows of buttons. they shouldnt need to add any more buttons, the PvP can just go with Character or Abilities List. Treasure Maps can be spun off of the Map Button.

Makes me soft.

your player menu has all the buttons, make a hotbar downsized to 60% and add all the icons you want. you can even sort them in the order you want!.
problem solved

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...nu-back-please

Had too sorry. But I agree.