Like I said.. FFXI had some great ideas that FFXIV could use... the battle UI is just not one of them

And to take it a step further... Some FFXI players used Macros for everything...
In which case the new system is not unlike the FFXI one for them


Actually, I find using the action bar nothing like using macros from XI, and XI did do a lot of good things, majority of which were not SOP for an MMORPG, its biggest claim...it refused to be a WoW clone, or EQ, or any number of other online rpgs out there...granted it did take some good things from the games that came before it...but when it was all said and done...you knew XI from anything else, it felt different, it looked different and it played different.
Also, a game doesn't need to break records to be successful of profitable...