Quote Originally Posted by Xatsh View Post
I tried Rift and played for a little while, but it is not that great of a game. Not bad but not good either.

4) Copy/pasted WoWs entire UI and it works very well. This is good simply because WoW has the best keyboard/mouse UI for a mmo ever developed.

I'm not sure it's possible for me to disagree more with this statement. I played WoW for years, and always thought the UI was simply atrocious. Given how popular complete UI replacement addons are for the game, I don't think I'm the only one.

I actually really, really like FFXIV's UI. It's clean, and it's out of the way. Sure, there could be some menu tweaks, and menu lag is still a problem, but as far as just design goes, I like it more than any other MMO UI I've used to date, even City of heroes, which used to be the standard by which I measured all others.

WoW's UI is clunky. There are bars everywhere, you character and target take up a solid 5% of your screen real estate, and there's so much junk crammed down at the bottom of the screen it's covers the entire section unless you're using a high resolution on a widescreen monitor.

In contrast, FFXIV leaves on my screen only what I actually need at that time. If I need more, the menu button is just a keypress away.