Not to be the devil's advocate, but you already have the content you paid for, which would be Terraria as it was released. You are not entitled in any way, shape or form to get free updates (on any platform for that matter). Be thankful that you do. As far as I know the shop description of Terraria does not state "includes free updates for life". Not that I don't get where you are coming from, because I do, but seeing as how many people seem to think they deserve to get every game Re-Logic will ever put out in the future till the end of time because they bought Terraria tells me that entitlement should be kept in check a little bit more.
That being said, I doubt like some other people have said as well, that Cross-Play will be dropped any time soon since it is a huge selling point. The D-Pad for hot bar selection is nog going to go away either, are you kidding me? I use that non-stop, it is probably the best feature we added
I have my main weapon, my drax, torches and a hamaxe always set and switch probably 20 times a minute. So does everybody else I know.
In regards to the UI, there are plusses and minusses to either system...I personally thought the PC crafting UI was the worst UI ever till Red added the little block that shows you everything you can craft. In any case, you will have to convince 505 to put a ton of money into revamping the GUI since even though a "GUI is so easy to make" (did you ever make one?) with the hard coded nature of Terraria, nothing is easy to change...it's not like all the crafting recipes and items are in a nice database or anything (they are not)....creating the original console UI took months.
Oh and
@StarXStone : you make some really good points and good suggestions, but I do want to add that "go get glasses then" is not an attitude that we can permit ourselves as game designers. Nor is it a very good attitude in general. We get more complaints about everything being too small on next-gen than anything else.
Out of everything, I like the idea of a transparency option for the whole UI and I have always liked
@StarXStone 's suggestion to have multiple sizes for next-gen. Unfortunately that is not as easy as it sounds, since you have to redraw *everything* to look right in a smaller size (they are pixel graphics, scaling would look stupid), then you have to reposition *everything* on your screen etc. etc. I still would love to do that though, so I guess it goes on my suggestion list