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

[Betelgeuzah]

The only thing that can possibly stop PS3 users from using addons are memory issues, that's it. The PS3 has native keyboard/mouse support from USB-wired to USB-wireless to anything Bluetooth. There is almost nothing stopping a game from being played on a PS3 as it'd be played on a PC.

With that said, I hope they do require an approval process for any custom UI.

There might be issues regarding SCE approval too. Plus, all add-ons for gamepad users must be pretty much developed specifically for them.

Since there is technically no reason it couldn't be done, I hope that SE can make it happen one day.

[Fensfield]

The only add-ins I ran were the ones my guild "required" and I left the UI for all of them off when I played. I only had them installed so a "check" would show that I had it...
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I will always argue that people who believe that add-ins are required to perform suffer from a severe intellectual deficiency.

I don't mean to be snarky or anything, but.. yet you played with a guild demanded you have them? Why else would they "require" them unless people who would be a big part of your time with that guild believed 'add-ins are required to perform'?

Just the idea of a Free Company having demands like that makes me feel uncomfortable. I mean, not least because of the privacy issues around players being able to run checks on my client.. Even if it is only to look for certain add-ons, it seems pretty rude.

Still, I doubt I'll be using them to any great extent, especially given I prefer my UI be as spartan as possible. Anyone demands I operate them probably isn't someone I want anything to do with anyway.

[Baxter]

There might be issues regarding SCE approval too. Plus, all add-ons for gamepad users must be pretty much developed specifically for them.

Since there is technically no reason it couldn't be done, I hope that SE can make it happen one day.

In a recent interview Yoshi said that he would be porting over the more popular, and requested add ons for ps3

[Zion_Cross]

I just can't imagine how PS3 users will get to benefit from custom UI at all. What SE should do is make it where you'd have to submit a UI first, and then they can approve it and make it available for download through PSN and PC for others to use. I'm not sure how else this would work out for PS3 users.

I HIGHLY doubt they'll allow any sort of add-ons for the ps3. They're making two different UI's for that specific reason.

[Zion_Cross]

In a recent interview Yoshi said that he would be porting over the more popular, and requested add ons for ps3

I want to see this actually happen lol.

[Baxter]

I want to see this actually happen lol.

i want to see glorified primal summonings that change weather of the entire zone, and chocobo battles happen, but thats more unlikely than this. Yoshi has been pretty good on his word so far on catering to the community.

[Zion_Cross]

i want to see glorified primal summonings that change weather of the entire zone, and chocobo battles happen, but thats more unlikely than this. Yoshi has been pretty good on his word so far on catering to the community.

Kind of off topic, but I wonder how many people could hold that trump card of summoning ifrit at a time on the server. I can't imagine 5+ people summoning ifrit for example and making the server crash.

[Answa]

Kind of off topic, but I wonder how many people could hold that trump card of summoning ifrit at a time on the server. I can't imagine 5+ people summoning ifrit for example and making the server crash.

It's one free company at a time.

[Payadopa]

That is what I am concerned about. If the UI Customization is only for the aesthetics, then I don't think that will become much of a problem. If it is used for the coding aspects, then something is seriously wrong. :P

I agree. UI customisation in essence is a good thing, but not, if it's being abused by showing informations that others can't/shouldn't see. Say what you want about the 'need' to see certain things on the UI for the raid's sake. If you can't beat a dungeon without it, then it's either the developer or you/ your party, who's at fault.

I also don't understand the need of knowing literally everything about every single 100111100100 in the coding of MMOs. But then again, I'm just a mid-core gamer, as Yoshi put it.

Oh, well. That's just my personal opinion, which is as valid as anyone's.

[Zenaku]

I agree. UI customisation in essence is a good thing, but not, if it's being abused by showing informations that others can't/shouldn't see. Say what you want about the 'need' to see certain things on the UI for the raid's sake. If you can't beat a dungeon without it, then it's either the developer or you/ your party, who's at fault.

I also don't understand the need of knowing literally everything about every single 100111100100 in the coding of MMOs. But then again, I'm just a mid-core gamer, as Yoshi put it.

Oh, well. That's just my personal opinion, which is as valid as anyone's.

Casual and hardcore use addon but that not the point i still don't understand why people can't be a tank or a healer without a pop or sound saying someone else have hate i could understand in wow where there lot's of people around while fighting and it get crazy but in FFXIV i think it would never be needed only if your lazy and can't play a mmo without addon.

I know myself wont be using any addon maybe the one i like from ffxi windower display how much EXP i'm getting. The only reason i hate addons is in wow to do anything like raids they make you download addon A,B,C / D to even do there events i hope that never happen in ffxiv if it does then w/e i play my way and learn how to play the game without using addon i did it in wow and in ffxi i can do it in ffxiv.