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11/03/15, 05:35 PM   #2
Ayantir
 
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Few things for console UI requests :

We're few. Lot of us are now updating addons which were not originally made by ourselves, even if they rewrited it entirely. Have 1 addon to update is quite easy, even if it's a big one, Have 3, 4, 5 is a bit harder, you always have one addon which you're not entirely satisfied on or worse, not updated.

We're playing in a MMO, API move a way quicker than an solo-RPG. If we had a huge pause between 1.6 and IC to polish our stuff, we only had 2 months between IC and Orsinium. IC broke a lot of things, and Orsinium popped so fast that we still got some IC related bugs to fix. Thiefs guild will pop in 3 months (2 months for PTS). and 3 months, it's the time needed to build an addon like the one you suggest. With a base, It could be reduced if you only need to adapt the UI and already have the core feature, but it's still a lot of time.

Most of us are playing with a keyboard. If we're here, that's because we wanted to rewrite somthing we were forced to use and didn't liked the way it was. Console UI also needs devs who plays with console UI only for motivation and daily tests issues.

Gamepad (on PC) is still on beta. Doing big things before to be sure it's a stable thing is not very soothing. We are on the console UI. Some things are made because of console restrictions and maybe not adapted to PC-gamepad.

For now, we don' have a lot of things UI oriented which adapts automatically when you're on gamepad console, lot of us need to rewrite everything if they want to add gamepad support.

I hope you'll find motivated people for your suggestions, some of them are very quick to do, some others very long.
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