SE, from bottom of my heart, change damn GCD animation

Please change the stupid circles, on GCD. I don't care if the circle is on an actual ability that requires a timer but the damn circles on every GCD every move is annoying.

An option would be nice

I'd reaaaaaally love if they didn't straight up change or remove it though, I honestly quite like it how it is now.

There was a whole long post by the devs about this, shortly after it came in. They said something like: 90% of their test audience loved it, while 10% hated it. So they went with the 90% and basically said sucks to be you to the 10%. It's here to stay.

If Disco Balls are here to stay then dangit I want a John Travolta Saturday Night Fever dance. That would regularly fire off your GCD for no reason.

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Originally Posted by Dorander

There was a whole long post by the devs about this, shortly after it came in. They said something like: 90% of their test audience loved it, while 10% hated it. So they went with the 90% and basically said sucks to be you to the 10%. It's here to stay.

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I liked the 1.0 cooldown circles and combo/ability indicators more myself. Ya had pink rings for combos and blue rings for abilities you could activate at opportune times (like Shield Swipe).

It was weird to me at first, but within a day or two I didn't even notice it anymore. That being said, options are a good thing. I don't want to go back to how it was before 3.2, but there's no reason they can't have style options like many other games.

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Originally Posted by Aethaeryn

It was weird to me at first, but within a day or two I didn't even notice it anymore. That being said, options are a good thing. I don't want to go back to how it was before 3.2, but there's no reason they can't have style options like many other games.

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Same, it took me a min to get use to, like when they changed the AoE indicator designs, but now that I've played with it for awhile, I barely notice it anymore.

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Originally Posted by Aethaeryn

there's no reason they can't have style options like many other games.

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They gave a reason, something like memory limitations in the lowest spec environment (PS3 limitations?). Basically there's a technical reason why only one style is available and they went with the one that was more popular with the team.

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Originally Posted by Rufalus

They gave a reason, something like memory limitations in the lowest spec environment (PS3 limitations?). Basically there's a technical reason why only one style is available and they went with the one that was more popular with the team.

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I know they gave their usual PS3 limitations reason, but I feel like they didn't understand what was being requested. I'll admit I have no idea how any of that stuff works, but they could just add the cooldown style options for PS4 and PC users only and likely cover almost all of the people who don't like the current style. They've done it with graphics options and other things already, so it seems more like just not wanting to put time into something most people likely don't care about.

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Originally Posted by Dorander

Here's the post : http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...00#post3588300

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Oh, I never even saw that post. I suppose that's why other games with cooldown style options reload the UI whenever you change something like that.

Here's the post : http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...00#post3588300