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Originally Posted by Cooleyvol
Why change what works (worked)?
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Revert (or make the interface user selected) and I buy it. No change in interface and I've bought my last OOTP.
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Well, first, I want to mention that I talk to MorseMoose quite a lot, and what I said does not apply to all 6.5 nostalgics, but strictly to him...he really is conservative and does not want to change a situation that works for a better one in general. His ideas are very inertiatic!
I think the reason for the change was that a whole lot of new features that needed a more comprehensive interface, that the old one was just not ready to accomodate all the new stuff.
I must say that to this day, I do not understand the whole interface debate. To me, an interface is not much more than a tool, and I think that it serves it purpose well, because while I concede that there are screens that are harder to reach, the vast majority of the interface runs seamlessly as far as I have observed. I do not like the new interface better than the old, which is robably why I have such trouble believing that it could be a major selling point for others. It is not like the new interface is impossible to deal with or has major flaws.
Reverting to the old interface would mean that a lot of features would have to be thrown away, because if they were all to be added to the 6.5 interface, the interface would become cluttered and complicated. The 6.5 interface was much more simle, of course, and only the fewer features allowed that to happen. To put it bluntly, I think the old interface could not support all the new features.
Basically, if the old interface came back, I would not care. I would gladly deal with it. But, if the choice is between the old interface and a simple game or the new interface and a deep game, I choose the latter, hands down. Even if I liked the old one better, I have a hard time believing I would put its importance above all the added functions of the new game. And, of course, we are not even talking about the time allocated to bringing back the old interface that could otherwise be sent on new features, bettering current features, fixing bugs and what not.