Quote Originally Posted by Returnee View Post
Just an observation since many players are saying they haven't played an MMO that used text for inventory items, Eve Online, which has probably the most items and places the most emphasis on inventory of any popular MMO, does in fact provide a text based inventory list. It also provides an icon based inventory and a detailed text view.
Just QFT.

Also, my first computer, a C64, would happily display 40x25 characters and use only 64k RAM for that, and could do other stuff besides displaying a list. 40x25 would be more than enough (that's 4x scrolling/page down for the whole inventory).

I have no idea why a simple text display should tax a CPU harder than displaying a grid of icons.

Even FFXIV 1.0 and FFXI had an item list. Where you could actually find stuff you're carrying. I almost went nuts yesterday evening looking through 2 retainers and my inventory searching for Alumen (which got sorted to page 7 of my inventory I never use, but my inventory filled up).