Cartoony style graphics....

[Shougun]

Which one? Pretty sure they did say they'll give us a choice of a "Classic FF UI" which is what the original XI UI was mimicking.

Thats good, i'm not a huge fan of the flat black ui (2.0's - not including chat dialog box).

I like immersive UI or iconic, the current UI is neither.

[KiriA500]

Thats good, i'm not a huge fan of the flat black ui.

I like immersive UI or iconic, the current UI is neither.

What are you talking about...? The current UI is immersive as hell.

I get immersed in it for hours at a time trying to find the one freaking item I'm looking for.

[Valmonte]

I like my UI's as Minimalistic as possible, in which case the current UI is acceptable things that could go are the exp bar, the minimap, the Moon phase and the send/receive. if the action bar didn't already take two clicks to activate, i would hide it. but then thats another click.

as for inventory management the game is in sore need of meta tagging

[Arcell]

If it's not included officially I'm sure it'll be one of the first player add-ons to pop up. Sadly it'll probably receive the most downloads too.

[Felis]

Isn't FF XI an Everquest II clone in a FF skin?
And it worked, didn't it?

[Elexia]

Isn't FF XI an Everquest II clone in a FF skin?
And it worked, didn't it?

Nope, XI is based on EQ (original, base systems wise) and did much much different in many regards which is why it succeeded, XI would have failed if it was a flatout clone, which is why pretty much every "WoW Clone" fails, doesn't even try to do something new or different, just "hey if we copy this we can make a ton of money"...it works for the first month, then well we see what happens.

Rift even tried to directly compete and well as said, we seen what happens lol. XIV wouldn't succeed even if it was an XI clone because the damage is already done, it has to be it's own entity while taking what works from it's predecessor since it didn't succeed and last 10 years out of "luck" or anything.

[KiriA500]

Isn't FF XI an Everquest II clone in a FF skin?
And it worked, didn't it?

A clone that was released two years earlier...interesting.

[Rokien]

A clone that was released two years earlier...interesting.

I would not consider FFXI a clone of EQ at all. I've played both and both play very different.

[Babydoll]

I would not consider FFXI a clone of EQ at all. I've played both and both play very different.

FFXI is not a clone of EQ..but the devs and producer themselves said they used EQ as inspiration for FFXI.

Also I don't mind the "cartoony" look or whatever is going on with FFXIV. I like the anime/sorta realistic look the characters faces have. Well anyways the game is not finished yet so I'll reserve judgement until they show us something and say "Okay guys this is the final stuff, what do you think?"

[Valmonte]

FFXI is not a clone of EQ..but the devs and producer themselves said they used EQ as inspiration for FFXI.

Also I don't mind the "cartoony" look or whatever is going on with FFXIV. I like the anime/sorta realistic look the characters faces have. Well anyways the game is not finished yet so I'll reserve judgement until they show us something and say "Okay guys this is the final stuff, what do you think?"

FFXI only resemblance to EverQuest was in its underlying engine mechanics....for which i have no doubt it was chosen for its resourcefulness and was already spec'd with the PS2 in mind.

as for this game being in its early stages, keep in mind Beta starts in 2 months. what we are seeing now is no doubt whats to come, aside from any polishing of underlying mechanics SE is touting the game with a "ready to go" attitude.