EverQuest got new UI and stuff

I read somewhere that EverQuest was getting a revamped UI, but I couldn’t find a link to check the details.

Now Mobhunter has a write-up about the last patch. Quoting what took my attention:

Everquest now uses the default system mouse during play. The biggest improvement seems to be mouse cursor speed regardless of the framerate of your game. Players can also mouse out of the EQ window in windowed mode without having to release the mouse.

When I retried the game, more than a year ago, I really couldn’t suffer those two issues. Those types of fixes are worth way more than new quests and stuff from my point of view. Sometimes they are defined as “quality of life” fixes, a really appropriate definition. I wish the developers would give them more consideration.

Here you can see some screenshots of the new EQ2-ish UI. Another super tiny one here.

Ahh, the days of the old rants:

The user interface looks like it was based on a web page on GeoCities. Beautiful, stunning scenery surrounded by a butt-ugly control scheme that takes up half the page. You can turn off the butt-ugly control scheme, with the tradeoff that you can then not actually do anything.

All the rest is still valid, though.

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