[dev1124] Feedback

Why are you wasting time on this? [Hiding/displaying weapon/tool]

There are MANY more important issues that working on this useless change.

It is purely cosmetic and I cannot even foresee my fellow players even using this function.

The fact that other players will not even see this visual change until another update is implemented is a joke.

We need /sea, /seacom and "looking for party" flags yesterday.

There are MAJOR flaws with your game that need fixing before doing anything remotely like this.

Please reference: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/19106-You-ve-been-put-in-charge-of-FFXIV-rework

Nowhere in that thread does anyone mention the display of their currently equipped weapon or tool.

I am not saying that we do not appreciate the work that the developers do, nor am I saying that your time was wasted on this project, just that there are bigger items that players want fixed before issues like this one are even considered.

Thank you.

The reality is, adding a feature like /display main off is a simple and trivial task that probably took one person on the development team an hour to implement and test. I'm sure all of the other "more important" features are being worked on, this was more like a lunch break feature I think, where someone decided it would be silly if people couldn't wear their bathing suits or town gear without a weapon equipped.

Since you've made this feedback thread already, I will add one thing though:
Please make it so that weapons are hidden for only the character who uses the command and the change can be seen by anyone a la /display head off. There is no reason to turn the weapons off for everyone on only the command users screen. No one wants this.

I agree with zoltan, this feature may be easy to impliment and test. But I'd rather see that hour do something usefull like /sea, make the looking for party system easier and better so people will actually want to use it, add a flag for those looking for party to make them more visable when standing around where they want to party, commands for linkshell fixed so that it can be managed properly like the ability to kick inactive people that aren't getting online mainly, better updates that are already in the pipes quicker, ect. There's much better things to do that this feature. Also, about the leve and behest changes. It is nice to have the option of doing those things alone, but this is an MMO. No content should be focused on solo. Leves and Behest should be fast passed solo or party environments with pleanty of experience on all quests not just a few, small time investment, and adjustable difficulty. I greatly enjoyed the 30 minute behest timer, 20 minutes of study, 10 minute break. I loved the pace of 1-30 before 1.8. If the pace were that solid through 1-50, with the option of nms, dungeons, and raids directed soley at partys it would be great. Especialy once there are more nms and dungeons. I love the new battle system, just might need to add a few peices enmity gear to balance aggro alittle better and great job on the dungeons.

I agree with OP, if anything, this feature is not worth...mentioning, I don't see how this would get anyone excited and waiting in anticipation for this feature to be implemented. I'd like the Lodestone to at least put more focus in giving us a sneak peek of further additions that are less trivial.

I agree with the OP in principle.

However I read it somewhere they the dev team are split into groups and working on different elements of the game, so I dont think that implementing this pretty pointless feature really impacted to much in the grand scheme of things.

That said, for those that don't know this, it does create an impression that SE are just fettling and not getting down to the real meaty issues that people are screaming for.

For that reason, sure if you wanna add in things like this, fine, just don't make a big issue of it, but when theres a change that the playerbase are desperate for in the works, shout it from the rooftops! :)

Agreed with OP.
This literally adds no value to the game in the current state it's in.
Every hour should be spent on more core features.
Team working on visuals/UI? There's plenty of important work to be done there.
Improve the UI, the menu, the chat window. Remove our character names from obscuring our screen.
There's a big list for the UI team.

Sure it takes a small effort to implement this feature, but it adds no value now and solves no issues we currently have.

To me this feels like just a way of giving an impression of progress in development. Though personally, i would rather that time spent in creating a letter from producer or just general updates and feedback on more core features in future.

I could see this down the line but why is it so important to add or mention right now? There are 100 bigger things to worry about.

I also agree this could have waited until after some of the bigger problems have been addressed. My only guess is SE is trying to fix some of the lag problems without really fixing some of the lag problems........

screw the main weapon i want this ugly ass shield gone more then my sword.