Dark mode for the new launcher please.

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Originally Posted by Taybat

Overall I prefer darker tones. I find it easier on my eyes

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This is my opinion.

Yeah I'm only going to see it for a bit but still. Like the darker version better.

I support this, light themes can be hard on the eyes

And make a night/dark mode on the forums while we're at it.
My eyes are burning as we speak lol.

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Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell

The launcher, specifically. Not the in-game theme lol

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I'm talking about the launcher. I just mentioned the theme too because I see alot of hate for it and I'm asking why? So why do people hate the light theme? I think the new launcher looks cool.

Personally I don't hate the light theme. Not yet. I just like a dark theme better. And it just so happens that white backgrounds are going out of style, so it would be really sad to see a white theme forced on us just as dark modes are starting to become a standard system-level option.

I thought the new light launcher looked quite nice, but I do hope there is a night mode as well ('dark mode'). Beyond it being nice to have the ability to mix it up (been using light mode in game because it's fun to have it be different) I also think sometimes you just want your eyes to be in a relaxed state.

Super silly and entirely unnecessary but if they wanted to add an auto mode switching option to the launcher too I'd use it lol (based on time of day the launcher would automatically launch into different modes).

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Super silly and entirely unnecessary but if they wanted to add an auto mode switching option to the launcher too I'd use it lol (based on time of day the launcher would automatically launch into different modes).

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Or let the launcher gradually fade between light and dark mode depending on the Eorzea time. :cool:

New launcher is just a copy/paste modernized MMO launcher like tons of other MMOs that came out later have. Looks almost identical to how GW2's launcher used to.

Hopefully we get a setting for dark mode, I'm not a fan of the solid white either.

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Originally Posted by monk-dps

So why do people hate the light theme? I think the new launcher looks cool.

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Too much light hurts the eyes.

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Originally Posted by YojimboM

New launcher is just a copy/paste modernized MMO launcher like tons of other MMOs that came out later have. Looks almost identical to how GW2's launcher used to.

Hopefully we get a setting for dark mode, I'm not a fan of the solid white either.

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More than that, it's basically a slightly retweaked version of FFXIV 1.0's original launcher, only with a few more bells and whistles. But the overall theme and arrangement of icons is the more or less the same. I wonder though, why the launcher is being changed in the first place? Was there complaints about the ARR launcher?

As it seems rather odd that the launcher is being altered when I didn't really think there was anything that wrong with it.