The current find/setup party system is great

[Kazimir]

There actually isn't anything wrong with the party menu, people are just either too stupid to know how to use it or too lazy to want to go through all the menus.

In actuality the search function makes sense. The game is built around grouping for guildleves and it's set up so you can search for people who want to do that specifically, and also what camp they have leves for. The only problem I have with the menu is that you have to search for specific classes. I feel that is unnecessary and it's just an extra annoyance to go through when making a group.

I honestly think people would use it more if it was simpler. Just make it so we can toss up a party flag and wait, or just search for people in a certain level range. We don't honestly NEED all these other menus, most people have just searched for/as Purpose: none and Location: none then worked out what to do in group chat anyway.

[Rhianu]

There actually isn't anything wrong with the party menu, people are just either too stupid to know how to use it or too lazy to want to go through all the menus.

I'm sorry, but that statement right there is just flat out wrong. A good UI should be intuitive and user-friendly. Calling people stupid because the UI is poorly designed is just completely ass-backwards. The fact that people were able to form parties just fine with FFXI's UI is proof that it isn't people that are the problem. The problem is the interface.

[Kazimir]

I'm sorry, but that statement right there is just flat out wrong. A good UI should be intuitive and user-friendly. Calling people stupid because the UI is poorly designed is just completely ass-backwards. The fact that people were able to form parties just fine with FFXI's UI is proof that it isn't people that are the problem. The problem is the interface.

The UI may not be very simple but it isn't that unfriendly. I'm sorry but if you can't figure out how the menus work than you are the definition of stupid. But as I also said, people are too lazy to figure it out for themselves, and I believe that is the majority reason as opposed to just stupid.

Also the reason why the search function was used so much in XI was because you had to in order to find a 6 player group because of the type of party grind the game was based on, not to mention the fact people were spread all around Vanadiel where as in XIV everyone just sits in Thanalan. In XIV you can just pick up leves, go to an aethryte, and ask for a party, or just get a 3 person group going with a couple other LS members.

It really doesn't have that much to do with the UI. If we were forced to use the party search menu to find others fast enough to level, people would use it and figure it out, but that's not the case.