Okay, OOO. I just don't get it. You have plenty of people saying that this is bad, but you just don't seem to care.

I gave you a fair chance with this, too. I saw the original screenshot and I thought, "This doesn't look good from what I'm seeing, but I'm not going to complain about it now. I'll give it time. I'll play around with it. I'll wait and see if they fix some of the blatant errors I see."

But it came out exactly the same with all the mistakes several people had already mentioned. Eury, you told us to wait until we got the chance to play with it and that people don't normally like new stuff. I wanted to like this update. I thought it might be a chance for OOO to come out with something fresh that would show all the doubters (including myself) that they could do something good with this. I really did. But I just can't bring myself to like it. But I'm not just going to tell you, "DONT LIEK OMG BURN IT BCUZ I DUN LIEK IT!!11!1one!" No. I'm going to explain to you why I don't like it and maybe, just maybe, you'll see it from a player's point-of-view. Of course, that's probably just more wishful thinking.

First, I'm going to talk about the one basic property any good UI should have: unobtrusiveness. A good UI should be barely noticeable. The player should be able to interact with the game without even having to think about how to navigate the UI. It should be intuitive. The old one accomplished that with its simplicity. It seems to me (no accusations, though) that whoever designed this new UI wanted people to be noticing it all the time, but they didn't even bother finishing it (I'll talk more about the later). The big image of the player blocks out much of the upper left corner and in the clockworks, I had to strain my eyes to see my allies' health bars due to the darker color. This wasn't as much of a problem in the old UI because all the player icons were tucked neatly into small rectangles that told you everything you needed to know at a glance, the way an intuitive UI should.

So I've outlined a few of the functionality issues, now let me get into aesthetics. Put simply, it looks unfinished. It doesn't fit the feel of the game as much as the old one did, and the gradient effects look like they were part of a slacker's school Photoshop project. And having only most things with gradients just lends to that poorly-done look. It doesn't make the game look better; it makes the game look worse.

Please, OOO, listen to your fans on this one. As far as I can see, most of us just don't like it. I could list more issues, but I don't have the time or energy right now. (Speaking of no Energy...) Like I said, I gave it a good chance and I was disappointed. You can do better. I know you can do better. I just hope you take the time to accept more people's constructive criticism. It honestly makes me sad that you just kind of brushed off the people who had complaints about it with what was essentially saying, "you just don't like it 'cause it's new, that's all!" You shouldn't have to learn the interface or get used to it. That is all.

It... isn't.

Some of the update's features I like, predominantly the enemy health bars (Haven't tested it on a boss yet). The biggest gripe I have about it is the fact I can't see the energy bar. There was nothing wrong about that; contrarily, it helped quite a bit in the long run. Why it was removed is beyond me.

Then you've got that Goliath-sized pic of your knight.

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I'm wondering if the Devs stuck it there because they believe we have big egos. They probably came to that conclusion due to the constant complaints... But that's just speculation.

Guys, the new UI has only been on the test server for ~24 hours and the live server for less than 4 hours. If you're saying that OOO isn't going to change anything about it and that they don't care about our feedback, you're making a hella big assumption