Color Blindness and Playing FFXIV

I found out today that color blind folks are having a tough time seeing the big circles on the floor. This is true especially for folks who are red color blind.

Most games have some type of adjustment to the graphics that allows color blind folks to see this stuff.

Hmm, I am red-green color blind; the only time I have had a hard time in this game is when the red circles appear on green land (i.e. grass). Other than that they are fairly easy to see for me. Other games I have had a much harder time.

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Originally Posted by Dav

I found out today that color blind folks are having a tough time seeing the big circles on the floor. This is true especially for folks who are red color blind.

Most games have some type of adjustment to the graphics that allows color blind folks to see this stuff.

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A thread was brought up about colour-blindness in the beta forums as some people couldn't tell the difference between passive/aggressive mobs and there was a very quick dev responce to this issue including a picture of different colours for all the symbols to see which would work best for those individuals. I would guess the same thing would happen here if it was posted in the right section of the forum and had a decent amount of attention from the players.

I never realized how many people are truly color blind until playing this game actually... I've ran into like 8people so far that have a hard time with color blindness, Garuda fights I had to start marking the red target for one of our offtanks to pick up actually. Really does need to be a way to change up the different colors. Also, they really need to make it so red stuff is priority of vision over crap like Shadowflare, I can rarely see what's actually going on unless i really really focus on color tone changes when shadowflare gets dropped on the mobs I'm tanking.

It's sometimes really hard for me to see the Red circles. Would love to see a Colorblind Mode for that. It sucks that people call you a bad player only because you can't see the markings.

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Originally Posted by ByakkoSeven

I never realized how many people are truly color blind until playing this game actually... I've ran into like 8people so far that have a hard time with color blindness, Garuda fights I had to start marking the red target for one of our offtanks to pick up actually. Really does need to be a way to change up the different colors. Also, they really need to make it so red stuff is priority of vision over crap like Shadowflare, I can rarely see what's actually going on unless i really really focus on color tone changes when shadowflare gets dropped on the mobs I'm tanking.

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I'm not even colour blind and find it hard to notice the targeting markers in Shadow Flare, but it's worse when it's Archers fire circle as it's red. These targeting markers need increased definition with higher visual priority over those 2 abilities.

The only issue I have is when the circle appears in Water or under some other effect.

We've had a few color-blind individuals running Garuda with us. Most often tanks or some form of DD who wouldn't be able to distinguish which add to attack or hold. Thankfully, they always let us know this before hand so the mobs could be properly marked, though I do wish there was some graphical means of adjusting this so they don't have to do that with each group.

Whats awful is when there are lots of SMNs and BRDs that throw their damage circles on the ground, and you cant see the enemy damage circles (which actually matter, unlike SMNs/BRDs).

One of my friends is colour blind and a problem for him is that the green text that indicates which debuffs are yours (So you know when to refresh dots) is too pale, and just looks white to him. In fact he didn't realise there was a way to tell them apart until I mentioned the your debuffs appear in green.

tl;dr: Own debuffs need stronger coloured text

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Originally Posted by ByakkoSeven

Also, they really need to make it so red stuff is priority of vision over crap like Shadowflare, I can rarely see what's actually going on unless i really really focus on color tone changes when shadowflare gets dropped on the mobs I'm tanking.

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Glad to know it's not just me having that issue.

Garuda adds are the most annoying. If the link was thicker i would have an easier time of it since red generally appears slightly darker than greens (not always but most times) but since it is wire thin if no one marks ( i generally ask for it) i have to hope the dps is on the right one cause i attack the one whose health is droping fastest.

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Originally Posted by RyuujinZERO

One of my friends is colour blind and a problem for him is that the green text that indicates which debuffs are yours (So you know when to refresh dots) is too pale, and just looks white to him. In fact he didn't realise there was a way to tell them apart until I mentioned the your debuffs appear in green.

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I'm not colourblind and I can't tell the difference between my own DoT's and other peoples.Different colour or a slightly different size for your own would help a lot.

I'm black/white color blind (at the very least a third generation in my family). It's sometimes quite difficult to pick up mob AoE attacks, cones, etc. Worst one was the final boss of a dungeon that is a dragon that will coat the floor "white" for a breath attacks as it flies. Unfortunately the damn ground is also nearly all white (for me).

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Originally Posted by RyuujinZERO

One of my friends is colour blind and a problem for him is that the green text that indicates which debuffs are yours (So you know when to refresh dots) is too pale, and just looks white to him. In fact he didn't realise there was a way to tell them apart until I mentioned the your debuffs appear in green.

tl;dr: Own debuffs need stronger coloured text

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Funny enough, I had no idea until just now when you told me. (I'm red-green color blind)

I have also trouble with the Garuda adds. And I'm a tank... xD I cannot differentiate between the lines

yeah I have problems with this. and most games in general. I have to artificially bump and slide the colors coming out of my graphics card in general.

It's a definite problem that needs addressed. We have a couple colorblind players in our FC who have problems with the AoE effects.

Yep, didn't know about the debuffs thing either..
And indeed can't tell the difference between Garuda adds.. I even most of the time think the red one is the green one lol. Always ask for marking and there are always people helping,, thx btw ;D

Some 10% of the male population is Red-Green Colour deficient (Including myself).

Would love an option to change the colour, or to border-black the aoe circles so they stand out better.

Keep in mind color blind accommodations are a fairly newer thing in games. This is most true with MMO's. I remember wow putting it in fairly early, and thought it can't be that big of a deal to add it can it? and Tons of people said how happy they were to have adjustments.

Battlefield 4 has some really nifty options for that. http://imgur.com/a/iBRGY

Its quite amazing really what progresses are being made. I think SE has their hands full with just getting launch and balance sorted, but they'd totally put something in latter when time allows.

Try being deaf with all the FC/LSs demanding the use of voice chat...