What absolutely KILLS me is they've been hearing the UI is garbage for YEARS... YEARS now. There is absolutely NO reason at all they haven't even addressed the community about the issue. It was garbage in the original.. and instead of scrapping it all and re-doing it.. they pretty much kept the same thing!

Alot of people will tell you its a community, or bugs, or content etc that can make or break a game.. while some of them factor in.. it's a friendly User Interface that keeps people coming back. WoW's UI was TERRIBLE when it first launched, and I remember not even a month in, they completely re-did it, then opened it up for User addons.. which is STILL one of WoW's greatest strengths. It's UI is flawless almost to the point of perfection.. and it's almost 10 YEARS OLD.

FFXIV goes thru a launch, a crash, a rebuild, and a relaunch.. and NONE Of them thought "Wow.. ya know.. maybe pushing 10+ buttons just to ignore someone ISNT the best we can do here?" OR "ya know.. maybe they might like the ability to manipulate their own quest like MMO's since.. (Hell even *I* cant remember that far back.) EQ2?, WoW, Guild Wars, GW2, Neverwinter.. errhmm... yeah. "Oh yeah, they'll LOVE trying to nail down Rllllllllllllll FIIIIIIIIIIlIII typed in the blacklist and then reported." "What could be simpler then having a useless "retainer" that they design from the ground up.. and nobody ever sees again?" "Oh let's not forget that Market.. cause it's packed with awesome features like over-complicated searches you have to fine tune 10+ different buttons to see anything!"