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

[Yellow]

I hope add ons don't become necessary like WoW..

I quit WoW because it was too mechanical and boring.

ANYWAY

I love the screenshot It looks amazing!

[Len]

I hope add ons don't become necessary like WoW..

I quit WoW because it was too mechanical and boring.

ANYWAY

I love the screenshot It looks amazing!

UI add-ons are only available to PC users, so they would never become completely necessary.

[Zumi]

Nah it looks nothing like WoW. Thats my WoW UI below, although I have stuff hidden like my recount (damage meter), and omen (threat meter).

http://i.imgur.com/wWJTN.jpg

Anyway in most games there really not to many required addons. To play WoW you really only need deadly boss mods if you do raids and thats about it.

If anything the FFXIV UI looks a lot more advanced then WoWs.

[Oscillate_Wildly]

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

inb4 "gtfo wowbasher", WoW or not that is just fugly as hell on an aesthetic level.
I like the current bar, I just wish we could have 2 or all 3 up optionally at once so we can easily click skills in lieu of using macros.
I mean I know we're getting add ons but yeesh. A lot of this is going to clutter my laptop screen.

My personal comfort zone is also being violated by their party bar being on the left! Eadjfdlksa.
Oh well, I like how the game looks currently in its minimalistic-esque font and graphics. ): I'll be sad to see them go.

[Zumi]

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

That guy who set up that UI did a terrible job. He has recount up in the middle of the screen, there is no reason to have both your own party frame and raid grid. Also that pic was taken during BC when people didn't have high res monitors which allow for way more on the screen with less clutter. There are a lot of good WoW UIs that just happens to be a bad one. Theres plenty examples of good user made UIs.

In any game if you clutter up your screen with too many addons its not going to make you perform better.

[ellohwell]

People play hardcore servers in CoD without minimap etc because less information allows for native skill and intuition to stand out more.

Sometimes the UI becomes a cushion and a crutch for players without skill, and puts them on an elevator to perfection without actually getting there on their own merits.

The game shouldn't just be a level grind. It should be a skill-grind instead. Practice makes perfect.

They need to be careful about how much information they give players and also how much skill-related stuff they decide to automate. Automating the entire combat system might be more convenient, but there is clearly a point at which the player behind the user interface is no longer even relevant.

[Venat]

Seems kinda more concept then actual game.
Screen looks very cludered with options.

Ingame stuff seems overdone to be made more for the photo then for the game.

Few things I dislike about the photo is attack number "font" display.

[Tonkra]

I think it might be a tad to late to complain about hate meters and aggro icons -.-

ehm there is an hate-o-meter in the game yet if you switch it on in the options.


am i the only one who is really suspicious about the new engine?

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Well i personally dont like the screenshot at all... these colorful colors, the textures seem to me very "cartoonie" and not that sharp, no texture bump mapping like now.

it looks like an "AION", "Rift", "WoW", "Insert typical MMOrpg from today here" with these powerful colors, the big sword... i hope that this wont come true.


what i like about the screen is the typical FInal Fantasy hand cursor when targeting a target.
and the boss mob seems to have three parts which can be attacked .

are they downgrading the graphic engine to cartoonie optic to make it possible to run it on the ps3? well lets see... i dont like the shot.

[Zenaku]

ehm there is an hate-o-meter in the game yet if you switch it on in the options.


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Well i personally dont like the screenshot at all... these colorful colors, the textures seem to me very "cartoonie" and not that sharp, no bump mapping like now.

it looks like an "AION", "Rift", "WoW" with these powerful colors... i hope that this wont come true.

ya that what i thought when i saw it but people keep saying it look better i don't understand people sometime i guess people like that type of art look. I hope we allow to change the look of the game to look more real and less colorful.

[Wynn]

ya that what i thought when i saw it but people keep saying it look better i don't understand people sometime i guess people like that type of art look. I hope we allow to change the look of the game to look more real and less colorful.

I'm one of the people that thinks it looks better. But hey, everyone's tastes are different. That's just the way it goes