Pointless restrictions.

[m3eansean]

This is cross platform, please don't forget this in your criticism.

The other MMO's you reference are PC only, thus, not gated by the rather poor memory limitations of our old friend, the PS3.

The UI developer has said a number of times, the restrictions faced when designing the UI, due to the support of the PS3 platform.

Yoshi, on the release of 2.0, said PS3 would stay alive through 3.0, as a sort of promise to concerned players. I imagine, on next expac, PS3 support is going to be dropped or discontinued for the expac content.

[Niwashi]

The UI developer has said a number of times, the restrictions faced when designing the UI, due to the support of the PS3 platform.

Not relevant to the type of issues brought up here. Just because, like every other game in existence, there's a few features they have to design around low-memory clients (which includes low-end PCs as well as PS3) doesn't make every poor design decision a symptom of it. Some players like to joke about saying "PS3 limitations" in regards to just about everything, but you may have failed to notice that that's just a joke.

I imagine, on next expac, PS3 support is going to be dropped or discontinued for the expac content.

Even if that were to happen (which it eventually probably will for some future expac, though expecting it for the next one seems a pretty wild leap), it would only impact the expac specific features. Features that are shared with the base game would still support all the platforms that the base game does. Keep in mind, their other MMO is still supporting PS2 as far as the base game and first few expansions are concerned.

[Laraul]

The UI developer has said a number of times, the restrictions faced when designing the UI, due to the support of the PS3 platform.

* The UI director only once mentioned that the PS3's memory was an issue. He stated the PS3's/PS4's memory is somehow responsible in limiting the creation of additional hot bars. That was the only time. This seems rather silly to me. And very much bogus.

* He's an artist, and his official designation is lead UI & web artist. He himself is not a programmer though he does try very much to sound like one, It's uniikely has any experience with any coding himself, as it's not necessary or necessarily helpful to have for him to perform his role. Despite this he is contantly bringing up vague "memory issues" which maybe his whole mindset.

* None of the other developers ever bring up memory as the reason why they can or can not do something. They have added more areas, more classes and jobs, more abilities, more items and craftable recipes. More monsters and bosses. More mini-games, more quests, more everything and never say "hey memory won't let us do that." if they aren't blaming their woes on memory, then why would the UI developers be complaining about it all the time?