[Suggestion] Can we get a “Hide All Players” option?

Is this a yearly thread or something?

You think SE would make a version of XIV that's single player completely when this game dies? And if they did, would they keep the CC so you can still make your own WOL?

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

It is entirely unreasonable. It's an MMO. A social genre. One of the points of it is talking to people, removing that from the equation so people can't even attempt to talk to others is the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard.

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My two cent on this topic :

Indeed it's a social genre, but bear in mind that it doesn't enforce you to be social (or only the bare minimum). Just you hang out with people from time to time (dungeons etc) or on the overworld, and you can talk to them, not have to (with some exceptions, aye). At best, it encourages social interaction.

I understand all too well why this request seems confusing and contrary to the genre. I feel the same.

But I also understand that some people playing the game for the gameplay, story and universe would want to avoid contact with other people because they are not comfortable around them.

Never hurts to ask if one feature could be implemented to ease ones experience, without impeding the others ?
I understand that some of us might feel like "some players just want to erase me from their experience" by rendering you invisible to them. Being ignore, or knowing that some people can ignore you completely, can be unpleasant, and I feel like this might be one cause of refusing this request (along with the "but it's MMO, not Solo")

In any case, I think it only boils down to "how many players will actually use this feature ? for how long ? and how much time and effort will we have to put in to implement it? and compared to the other features, is this a priority ?"

Play singleplayer games then. Resources are better used elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Why do people always jump to this conclusion? "Oh you want to be left alone for a small amount of time while participating in activities that you can do on your own? Go play a single player game then."

If MMOs didn't want people to have options like these or privacy options to hide our online status, then they wouldn't include content in-game that players can play through own their own. It's not the end of the world just because someone decides they want some alone time.

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Exactly, peoples just have to be polarized no nuance allowed ! Because how dare you partially agree/disagree with me ? it's 100% or nothing !

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Originally Posted by MagicPeanut

For me, it's a Final Fantasy first, MMO second. I'm not a social person in general, so I'd just like the RPG part of MMORPG to be available as an option to me. I don't believe this request is that out there or unreasonable.

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Out there? No. Unreasonable? I mean, not really, but I do think it's a little bit stupid to play an MMO and then ask for a feature to take away what is literally the entire point of an MMO, exploring a world with other players. FFXIV does this whole MMO aspect pretty poorly imo, but it is still undeniably an MMO and you do agree to play the game with other people every time you log in. There is solo content, that's true, but it's all still within the larger context of an MMORPG. Also, like, seeing other people running around in a VIDEOGAME isn't you somehow being forced into being "social" lol. It's like, the absolute lowest form of social interaction possible. Not to be rude, but I really feel like it says something about you if you consider that to be too social

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

People emoting and otherwise trying to chat you up or interact with you. Do we not deserve a way to play without all of that if we choose to?

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I'm not saying you're lying, but I've been playing this game for like 5 years and I don't think I've had somebody try and start a conversation with me or interact with me more than once or twice in all of that time completely unprompted. Maybe if it was somebody I've interacted with before? Or if I was typing in shout chat or something, or MAYBE if somebody wanted to know where some glamour piece I'm wearing came from, but seriously, how often is that happening to you that it significantly detracts from your experience? Not to mention the fact that hiding players from your view wouldn't do anything to stop them from interacting with YOU, it's not like you'd disappear from their view as well lol. You'd still see the little chat notification that some dude blew a kiss to you or whatever awful thing you're terrified of experiencing.

Having an option for hiding players near important quest npc's will not magically make this game singleplayer. You people are reaching.

OP: People are resistant to ANYTHING that might take away their capability to force others to deal with them. Their excuses are about community and social feel.. but I haven't heard one good reason why someone shouldn't be able to customize their own experience and remove everyone else from it.

If someone doesn't want to have you around or "experience" your company they really shouldn't have to. The excuses about IRL you cant do this are pointless.. that's why this is a video game, real world concerns aren't valid.

If someone wants to play this game and can weather the forced instances and co-op elements along with the influence of others insofar as market board prices and competition for limited resources but does not wish to interact with the rest of the playerbase in any way, shape, or form otherwise? What does it take away from anyone elses experience?

This is an even more minor and non-impactful request than the glamour toggle thread that is getting blown out of proportion by zealous purists and narcissists.

I think if I want to turn off every other PC character in an area I should be able to for my own experience, PC performance, and convenience.


And to those who would rather the development time be spent on other things, YES.. same to all the junk I never use that y'all asked for and it happened. It's really always going to be a given that yes, others would rather have things they'd like worked on.

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Originally Posted by Derio

Honestly I would only use this option when a new patch drops so it doesnt feel bad when there are hundreds of people surrounding the quest NPC.

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I was coming there to post exactly this.
This feature would be great when doing the MSQ, imo.

The rest of the time I love seeing other players living their lives on Eorzea when I do my daily activities ^^