The new concept screenshot is a real-time in-game render!

[Tibian]

Yodhida said they are going to allow player aps or whatever they are called. Add-ons. Just think how awesome it will be if our UI looked like this.

/sarcasm

Complete lunacy. Way to find the worst interface layout ever created.
The majority of WoW users do not have that much clutter on the screen.

My WoW interface actually has fewer elements than the default WoW UI, except in raid mode when I have a full 10/25 unit frames that takes up the same amount of space that my party frames do. I am also, a main healer and get plenty of information from the addons that I have.

Furthermore, Yoshi has clearly made it his priority to appease both keyboard/mouse users and gamepad users.

Secondly, for those of you who say the current UI is better. I am floored by that response. You may like the blue color and how it looks; sure I can agree with you on that. It does look fine aesthetically, though I do prefer the newer screenshot about 600x more. However on a functional level, the current UI tells you very very very very very little as far as battle is concerned.

The UI presented is just a justification that Yoshi wants to bring the game up to modern functional standards. Not the current archaic menu UI.

I see no reason to have that many people in a party

I count 8. The current party limit. So you must hate the current party setup then.

The beauty about WoW's UI is that you can make it just the way you want it. There's really no "WoW UI" in that sense. Want simplistic? The devs should very well provide you with a way to do so.

Completely agree. I've seen some incredibly minimal WoW UI's with more information than the current XIV UI can deliver. Addons open up a lot of opportunities, ones that the dev teams sometimes can't or don't want to spend time on.

For instance, someone might have already created a "receive sound on /tell" UI addon. I am aware SE added it, but those small features sometimes add a lot to the game that don't necessarily need to be created by SE.

Also, SE has stated they are considering actually making several different UI skins/appearances to appease peoples tastes towards the classical blue, or something more modern, though they may not get around to it. That is where addon development really shines.

[Betelgeuzah]

Nope it look diff in many ways the type of detail and realism FFXIV have with crystal tool talking about Look of the char not the area itself look more like Aion sure Aion does not look that bad i just don't like that type of art work.

When i zoom in the picture it does look exactly the same or even better and the lighting look awesome but i don't know i'm just worry it would change how good the detail and realism ffxiv have right now.

That has nothing to do with the engine. The art style is already changing into something more over-the-top, it's not engine specific and you will see it happen with the current engine. Don't blame the engine for the shift in artistic direction.

[Jennestia]

Do you really blame us for thinking it was too good to be true?

Funny enough, the preview fight (The boat fight with the Aurelias) was stated to be real time rendering which people didn't believe it was either then the game released and we seen the cutscenes that were indeed rendered in real time (which was the whole purpose of the Crystal Tools engine lol.)

[Alkoun]

Wow.
/10 impressed's

[ellohwell]

Cure spell still looks like crap.

[ellohwell]

Funny enough, the preview fight (The boat fight with the Aurelias) was stated to be real time rendering which people didn't believe it was either then the game released and we seen the cutscenes that were indeed rendered in real time (which was the whole purpose of the Crystal Tools engine lol.)

There's a marked difference between the boat cutscene and the combat therein compared with the actual boat ride and the actual game's combat and spell effects.

[Zenaku]

I like a dev post about this and how the game going to change i like to know if we still going to have the same level of detail and realism.

[Vahzl]

The screenshot has so much action in it, my eyes popped out the back of my head.

[Tsukino]

I love how everyone thought that was just a painting or artist's rendering lol

Technically it could still be touched up after the fact. The UI may not even be necessarily running, nor does it actually need to be playable to qualify for "real-time rendering."

Hopefully his short response of just "of course" would indicate there's nothing to hide there though.

[Laughlyn]

The beauty about WoW's UI is that you can make it just the way you want it. There's really no "WoW UI" in that sense. Want simplistic? The devs should very well provide you with a way to do so.

So true.

Anyone dont want their screen full of addons... fine dont enable them / install them.

It's as simple as that.

Addons in atleast WoW, u could resize, move around to basicly
any location on the screen, so i dont see any problem.

So...im really looking foward to 2.0 ! :P