How is it functional when a lot of the fonts on the item stats / item detail overlays are too small for me to see without straining my eyes, leaning over my desk, etc? A lot of people here haven't considered one thing: Just because the UI "looks fine" to a lot of people, doesn't mean it's "just fine" for everyone. There's a difference between a website that is made with bright colors with lots of Photoshop "glow" filters on the text to look cool, with smaller-than-usual fonts, and a website that uses all the available screen real estate to display information and navigation with large fonts, balanced whitespace, and make it accessible to everyone. The difference with those two scenarios is that one looks cool and one is accessible to nearly everyone. You can't *please* everyone, sure. But if the UI is hard to read for a lot of people, which it is if you read the forums, then it's not a great UI. I can play Skyrim, Witcher 2, and Starcraft 2, all of which need to present a lot of info on screen, without straining my eyes or getting a headache or neckache. But not SWTOR. Which is my assertion for why the UI sucks *for some people* and is not *as good* as the UIs for many other games.

In my opinion this is one of the worse UIs I've seen. There's a reason you don't see user-friendly websites with 6 point blue and green neon font over a light blue background, or any of the other atrocious design decisions Bioware made with this UI. But then again Bioware likes having tiny little popups with 5 or 6pt fonts that are unreadable without having your monitor as close as a book or an iPhone. I wish they would follow the trend of using the entire space available on screen to display nice, high-contract, large fonts, and using intelligent scrolling / navigation. The server list is a good example. Horrible tiny blurry florescent blue text. I'm sure no one here has a problem reading it, but for those who *do* have trouble reading it, they could have solved that problem by making the list hold half as many items, and simply making you scroll. Think the new gmail interface that has larger line items and more whitespace. It's a trend that's preferred by most. Accessible and readable to everyone is better than making 10% of people lean over and strain to focus on the 6pt fonts.