Chat window is horrid, doesn't fit in at all with the FF feel.....

[Xatsh]

XI's UI was wonderful for a keyboard only or game pad.

But it was the worst thing on the planet for a mouse... it simply sucked for it... completely menu driven PS2 UI with almost no Mouse support at all.


Honestly what I loved most about FFXI was the lack of UI clutter on the screen and the usability and functionality of the chatbox. Everything could be controlled with a few key clicks. and the screen was for the most part left clear.

[Oscillate_Wildly]

One small thing quick. Why isn't there a screen lock function yet? That locks ALL of our widgets to the screen. The way things are set up, and related to the chat window as well, is if I lag and move something around or make it too big it's really obnoxious in the middle of the fight to be unable to let it go. There's also the status bar in the very top, default position leaves it right in the way and without it locked....Augh. I hate it! And it can't get smaller.
The way I have it set up is to the far left of my screen in two windows, carefully filtered.

As for the chat I couldn't agree more. While I like how clear it is so we can see behind it, it's also annoying how it gets in the way in the first place.
Now, I like it the way it is, but if they could just let us mess with the colours and the font sizes as well, that'd be ideal.

[Rowyne]

I personally like the chat window. With the exception of not having different backgrounds/skins to choose from, I think it's a big step up from FFXI and has the potential for more options. I like that I can get it to scroll with my mouse wheel. If they would implement the ability to create custom tabs, I would be a happy camper.

If you want it to cover the bottom of your screen like it did in FFXI, nothing is stopping you. You can easily drag and drop the border of the window to resize it and move it wherever you want. Pretty much all UI elements are movable.

[Cairdeas]

I would love the FF3/FF7/FF11 hybrid UI to return.

[Vanguard319]

Is it really THAT big a deal??? you can move and adjust it's size to suit your preferences after all. If you adore XI's ui so much, it isn't hard to approximate it.

[indira]

again there is no reasoning as to why having the chat log take up the entire BOTTOM of the screen... it just doesnt make any plausible sense to me! ventrilo people, ventrilo!

it dont have to be that big or stay at the bottom of the screen, ffxi you can access anything from macro or the menu without having a big window to swap skills.

XI's UI looked and felt like a Final Fantasy interface (looks better on higher resolutions) -- XIV's as said is trying to mimic the ugly generic MMORPG design.

when the addon's come im going, square got used to making crappy games after ffxi. FFX, FFXII, FFXIII were short no world map, and simple point to point. the past 6 years almost every dev been on the casual band wagon and lost there touch and do nothing but heavly copy each other

when will square start calling attribute poinst, "talent points" @_@, there already swaping out all the FFXI terms out with wow terms

[Cairdeas]

it dont have to be that big or stay at the bottom of the screen, ffxi you can access anything from macro or the menu without having a big window to swap skills.


when the addon's come im going, square got used to making crappy games after ffxi. FFX, FFXII, FFXIII were short no world map, and simple point to point. the past 6 years almost every dev been on the casual band wagon and lost there touch and do nothing but heavly copy each other

when will square start calling attribute poinst, "talent points" @_@, there already swaping out all the FFXI terms out with wow terms

All of the terms in WoW are from past RPG's.

[viion]

Its a chat window, if i can type "/l hey guys" im happy even if its a shell window.

[giftforce]

No offence OP but how was FFXI's chatlog more "Final Fantasy"?

It is lame. So unless you equate FF with lame things then I wonder what your point could be.

[Renshi]

Heya!

Viion has a point. It's a chat log. It does what a chat log has to do and so it has to. Even the Command Prompt in Windows is ugly compared to the system itself, but I don't scream for how bad it is.

I can't simply imagine a chat log that gives an antique feeling, just because back then if there were chat logs, there were papers and sh*t, and having a piece of paper on my screen is a No Thanks.