Hashmalum wrote:
Incidentally, who else thinks that with Tanaka in charge, a major aim of this UI revamp is to break 3rd party programs? Let's just hope that he's learned from FFXIV that you can't do everything server-side and still deliver acceptable performance.
They had this as part of the announcement:
Hiromichi Tanaka wrote:
User Customization Features
The window scheme and GUI scripts for FFXI will be released so users can design their own interface features.
The window scheme and GUI scripts for FFXI will be released so users can design their own interface features.
That's not to say that they wouldn't do such a thing as try to kill some of the third party apps we have now, but taken at face value it looks like they're offering support for at least some of them.