Discouraged Player

[Stockapotapoulos]

I don't know why I still try to play this. All the friends I made are gone, I can't begin to find anything fun or rewarding to want to do. I was hopeful that this would be on track a year later, but most of the aspects that made my blood pressure noticeably rise are still a part of this game to this day. Now they're making chocobos and materia systems before they tackle this lousy UI and the horrible time consuming shopping in addition to making gear repairs incredibly frustrating. Their priorities seem lodged in a rut trying to please people for a small bit of time while the dinner on the table goes cold dealing with restrictions on game play to make sure I'm not having too much fun.

Is the UI still messed up? I thought they tightened that up a while ago.

[Vesper]

Is the UI still messed up? I thought they tightened that up a while ago.

• The Menu UI is fundamentally messed up. You look at one menu item and it locks everything else out completely.
• While DOLing, Crafting you can't do anything else, you can't look at your friends list, look at configurations, a macro, linkshell list, journal.. nothing. Once you are in craft or gather mode you are locked out from all other UI options.
• Typing while gathering or crafting is a pain as your chat entree gets wiped constantly from craft/gathering messages/
• Can't swap shells while doing crafting/gathering. So if you want to swap to answer a question real quick, too bad. You need to wait for botany/mining actions to be done or in the case of fishing completely exist out of fishing mode.

Basically their tweaks have been for battle/action bar. Upcoming tweaks like the ability to place macros on action bars, the ability to set job ability sets, the ability to have multiple action bars up at once... again these are tweaks to the action bar, the menu UI still need a hardcore overall.

And FYI just because lots of us complain and are very vocal about the systems we dislike does not mean we hate this game. I love this game, but I hate many aspects that are just badly flawed, rushed, still needing majorly overhauls (Culinarian/Food I am looking at you).

[Stockapotapoulos]

• The Menu UI is fundamentally messed up. You look at one menu item and it locks everything else out completely.
• While DOLing, Crafting you can't do anything else, you can't look at your friends list, look at configurations, a macro, linkshell list, journal.. nothing. Once you are in craft or gather mode you are locked out from all other UI options.
• Typing while gathering or crafting is a pain as your chat entree gets wiped constantly from craft/gathering messages/
• Can't swap shells while doing crafting/gathering. So if you want to swap to answer a question real quick, too bad. You need to wait for botany/mining actions to be done or in the case of fishing completely exist out of fishing mode.

Basically their tweaks have been for battle/action bar. Upcoming tweaks like the ability to place macros on action bars, the ability to set job ability sets, the ability to have multiple action bars up at once... again these are tweaks to the action bar, the menu UI still need a hardcore overall.

Ah, I see what you mean now. With all of the stuff you mentioned on your list, it does make the AI seem inconvenient. Most of your grievances regarding the UI seem easy to fix, though. Maybe they will address it one of these days.

And FYI just because lots of us complain and are very vocal about the systems we dislike does not mean we hate this game. I love this game, but I hate many aspects that are just badly flawed, rushed, still needing majorly overhauls (Culinarian/Food I am looking at you).

*looks confused*

I don't think I've questioned your love (or hate) of the game before. Although one thing I noticed about the folks who are very vocal about the game is they seem to be very confrontational. It's cool to be passionate about something, but if they're going to be smug, disrespectful, and pretentious about it, I don't think it's going to be received well and, probably more importantly, it'll just get ignored. Not saying you're like this, but it's something I noticed from a handful of people so far. But anyway, maybe you got me confused with somebody else who questioned your feelings for Final Fantasy XIV? My evil twin brother? Perhaps my goblin confidant?