How do you subsist?

I never said I was against an option to turn it off, I understand some people would like to turn this off and not receive the redundant information.

Also, I tune it out by just ignoring it. Most of the time I don't even realize I'm being fed this mundane stuff. It's like breathing, you don't realize you're doing it until some tells you that you're breathing.

It's annoying sometimes when there's more information queuing up though. Like when someone do /readycheck then use /countdown before the ready check windows is completed. It messed up the countdown noise, and visual.

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Originally Posted by Daniolaut

You used the word "often"

The information you are given on any normal gameplay day is in fact pointless and or redundant. Each time you teleport or change zones it tells you were you are. (Pointless and redundant for anyone who teleports using the teleport menu and clicks the location they want to go to.) ... in which it is absolutely impossible to teleport without using the teleport menu, and when you click the location, it asks you to confirm your location you are teleporting to.....

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I used the word "often" because the truth is what may be redundant information to you is useful information for another person. A lot of what you claim is redundant are things that I find useful to have notifications for. But I'm not so arrogant as to claim that my personal taste and needs as a player are indicative of the value of all information in the game for everyone else.

I agree we should have the option to alter how this information is presented to us, but I strongly disagree with your attitude that it's shocking that someone else may not feel the same as you do about certain information and how it should be displayed.

I agree with you 100% OP. I have been playing since launch and I to would like an option to turn these annoying messages off. Don't expect the majority of people on the forum to agree with you but getting the message to SE is a good thing. Thank you.

I don't mind some of the stylized location notifications, such as when you 'port into a new location, but I can see how some might. As for the rest it really breaks immersion. I've learned to tune the majority out but I do like some of the changes proposed. Gods, even if they moved all/most of it to the chat log. I mean I NEED some of those notifications, just not in my face, during a CS <.<

HEY LISTEN!

So tl;dr version of this is a qol to toggle on/off more notifications?

*Puts stamp of approval*

I'm simply not bothered by it.

Steps of Faith showed pretty soundly to all of us that even when the game does stamp all the needed information in your face, people still ignore it, so why can't you?

And the issue is...?

I am about two years into FFXIV and still find the UX and UI to be absolutely atrocious. Way too many needless warnings that have no consequence, or prompts for things easily undone. Like I really don't think it's necessary to tell me that my gearset has had changes in glamour or melds. I think about the possible worst case scenario, like somebody glamming something that is used in multiple wildly different gearsets, and it's not worth the noise.

I think people miss a lot of the important ones because at some point it just becomes noise that they tune out. In fact, with how many people saying in this thread "I just don't notice it" is a problem with the system, and not good, because sometimes it is actually important information, and people should not at all be surprised if newer players are missing key details of an encounter when their brain has been programmed to see it as a distraction rather than a helpful resource.

FFXIV can probably cut back on half of its prompts, notifications, and confirmations, with smarter design or just realizing something isn't necessary.