Battle Command Design -PLEASE FIX IT

[Rydin]

Almost, EVERYONE, agrees that the current UI is complete S#$%.

Sorry.... I stopped reading right there... Maybe you made some good points after that... maybe you didn't...
But I hate when people make baseless generalizations like that
Almost everyone? really? many posts in here have supported your idea but those are all by 2 people....
I've seen quite a few people say they have no problem with the Action Bar... and others who say they just want to be able to see all their cooldowns....
You just can't speak For everyone....
Bad Khal... SMH

edit:
ok... that was mean... I went back and read your entire post....

And, I hate to tell you this, but the reason this game is failing so badly is b/c it failed to please it's XI fanbase. SE was pretty much guaranteed to get EVERY fan from FFXI to play this game, had they just brought back some of the fundamentals (i.e. battle UI, targetting system, job system (although it did need some tweeks w/ the nin crap going on), jse and level specific armor, party play for exp'n, general battle pace, etc.). And, now, b/c of their desperate attempt to appeal to WoW players and "like-minded" pc gamers, XIV is dying.

And I've got to say.... three hundred thousand people does not a successful game make...
It might not be "losing" money... but its not breaking any records.....
FFXI AT IT'S HEIGHT... did 500k.... FFXIII sold 2 million in the first week.. IN JAPAN ALONE

SE definitely wanted all the different players to come together.... But what they DIDN'T want was the FFXI vets alienating non FFXI players....

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