FF xiv's bad UI and game development a step backwards

After many MANY years of other MMO's in the market with their intuitive and easy to UI, with responsive controls and user friendly tutorials, why the development team thought the rigid and stagnant control set currently in this Final Fantasy XIV would be popular with new players?



For people who played FF11 I am sure its common ground and they are quite happy but there are several specific aspects of the game I just wanted to touch on that just have me bemused that no one stepped in and said we could improve upon that



-The mouse movement, WHY OH WHY even have the mouse if its going to be that awful, forget joypad option, why have it?!?!



-Active/Passive! WTF is this Darkfall or something? This is suppose to be a AAA game, why on gods green earth did they not code a simple 'aggressive mob targetted and ability used' auto ACTIVE mode, it completely just well WTF!



-The quest timers....on what planet do they think that providing a time limit for quests was a good idea, you take a Guild Leve you have 30mins to do it, your son calls you out in the garden so you go check hes ok, 10mins becomes 40mins....BOOM guild leve gone! (I have limited experience with these so maybe I am wrong and you can redo them?) It seems counter productive to penalise your subscribers to a time limit for certain quests



-Menu system, did I just fall through a time hole and land in the late 1990's and begin playing a PS1 or PS2 roleplaying game? The menu system is abhorrent, coupled with the mouse which is wading through oil it makes the whole experience laborious



And that that neatly sums up FFXIV, its just one big laborious task to get through the game with the controls acting like a massive Oil Tanker, making progress slow, frustrating and cumbersome



Honestly in this day and age, with the leaps and bounds gaming is making, would it be so hard to make the mouse work properly, provide a symbol based UI for easy access to things and remove the quest timers





The Japanese may be happy, but for a western audience drunk on WoW, Warhammer, Age of Conan etc and their UI's and responsive abilities/movement FFXIV seems like a massive step BACKWARDS in MMO development.

I a fan of being different but if the UI doesnt work that doesnt make it differnt just bad.Im a fan of square since 89 and since ff12 it seems the rely on thier name to get by.They wanted to make a casual game but with the UI now people will move on.Now for all you WoW haters this is what was said from square In an interview with Develop, Wada disclosed the full extent of Square Enix’s ambitions for the upcoming Final Fantasy MMO, and indicated that Blizzard’s need to – eventually – make a new game to compete.Im not a fanboy of WoW ive played about 15 mmos maybe more started way back with EQ i was hoping this would be my new game.The reason why people play WoW is its user friendly.i will try this game with PS3 verson guessing that by the time that comes things will be fixed cause in 17 days it wont.So cant say its a beta when games coming  very soon.I guess star wars mmo will be the game to play.