Workarounds to your problem not the game's problem. There doesn't need to be a solution because it's not actually an issue.
Granted this is also an issue for players who are both blind and deaf.
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Seriously? Sounds are too annoying? Turn off all audio except the sound that chimes. You don't need music and ambient noise when you aren't doing anything. If you aren't in front of your machine when the chime goes off that's on you. You really expect them to allow you to be lazier? The players who actually sit there and pay attention get parties, and those who don't miss the invite. Seems pretty fair to me.
Welcome to the internet, you must be new here. It's a wondrous place where people complain about the same stupid crap so often, that the ability to be perfectly nice to each person that brings it up is impossible.
FYI, QoL in a game doesn't relate to the player's laziness outside of the game. If you miss a queue pop because you're to lazy to play the game while waiting on it, then you have no right to complain and suggest/demand that the developer include a system to accommodate your laziness. There are much better/more important things for them to work on besides making sure that the guy that Alt tabbed out of the game doesn't miss a queue. In fact a better system would be to have a feature that slaps a penalty on anyone that misses a queue because they were alt tabbed. Remember, you have 3-23 other people to think about when you queue up, so you missing the queue is more inconvenient to them then it is to you.
And we all think that you're so cool for it. Specifically the concept that asking a company that provides a product that you pay for whether or not it would be possible to improve said product in a way that benefits you as a paying customer being "ridiculous" so cool.
I have two monitors (technically 1 monitor & 1 HDTV that can be used as a monitor) sitting around, but can't make use of them because I don't have anything to hook them to my PC. *sigh* I'd so love to have a second monitor.
Well at least you just need the cables and not another display. Doing pretty good compared to other people stuck on a single display.
I was only questioning since you seemed to make it sound worse than it was. Dropping less than 50 bucks on some cables would be totally worth it man. Multiple displays are awesome.
The hostility really isn't needed here.
I very much appreciate how Rift flashes the taskbar icon when something happens in the game and you're not tabbed into it - such as entering combat, getting a party invite or a whisper, the dungeon queue popping, etc. It's a very simple thing and quite useful.