Suggestion:hide own name

Square,
I think it would be great to be able to hide your own name ONLY as you dont really need to see you own name, alot of times in combat your own name is blocking the foreground targets
even when playing with camera options. I dont need to see the LinkShell im in as that can be seen in the chatlog and a bazaar check is pretty fast as well.

Something like this shouldnt be too hard to implement right?

I liked this :D

We have a few topics about this and i agree it should be done.

:D got my vote!

ya a few posts already been made, but it hasn't seem to have gotten anywhere, I agree, i dont need to know my own name, defintly one character on the screen I know who it is

Aye!! Support!!

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Originally Posted by Eruantien

ya a few posts already been made, but it hasn't seem to have gotten anywhere, I agree, i dont need to know my own name, defintly one character on the screen I know who it is

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Actualy if i remember correctly we have had a response to this suggestion the last time it was brought up.

The response was could you please explain what you want XD

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Originally Posted by Eruantien

The response was could you please explain what you want XD

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Yeah, which was a little. . . disheartening. . .

I just want to hide my own name when playing and see other peoples. Its just my own name blocks a lot of foreground and landscape, thats all

this should be implemented already People have been asking about this since beta

I made a thread about this in another subforum - I didn't realize this thread existed. Yes, this should definitely be implemented. I hate having my (long) name right in the middle of the screen, serving no purpose but an ugly distraction. Often I turn off all names, only because I want my name off. I imagine this would be a very quick addition to the game.

Not to mention - the fact our names spaz out shake violently when going up or down slopes would be another selling point to add this feature.

it would be helpful if we could hide the following parts

1) name
2) hp bar (just your own, we dont need 2)
3) LS shield
4) bazaar check

but leave our enmity icon above our heads but have the option to hide that too.

obviously all these would need to be hidden localy and not globaly like /head display off blah blah blah.

Remove name plate of us asap. In fact i think is no need to a toogle option for this. For sure a ttogle dont hurts. Bt if it represent more dev time to do it. Just skip it and remove it asap. Really. Who needs a name plate remeberng his own name? And for bazzar and repair icon meaby in the status bar?

The only other MMO I have played is FFXI. Do other MMOs have this feature? For years I wondered why I couldn't turn off my own name in FFXI (or why it was ever there in the first place). In FFXIV, it bothers me a lot more. I want to turn the damn thing off.

Is there a psychological reason they don't implement this or something? Do they believe seeing our name take up the middle of the screen all day long make us feel more connected to our character and keeps us playing? I don't know what the reason is, but they need to add this feature quickly. They already have a full window for "name" options, which is currently just 'everything on' or 'everything off', I am sure adding a middle option to the slider would not be an issue.

Of course, knowing SE, the first implementation of this would require 7 pop-up windows to turn the name off and on.

tldr;

Adding an option just to hide the last names of every character would be nice too.

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Originally Posted by Umero

tldr;

Adding an option just to hide the last names of every character would be nice too.

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that would be /names off

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Originally Posted by Eruantien

that would be /names off

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/names off keeps your first name on screen?

o i didnt read what you said properly. Why would you want all surnames removed?

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Originally Posted by Vawn

The only other MMO I have played is FFXI. Do other MMOs have this feature? For years I wondered why I couldn't turn off my own name in FFXI (or why it was ever there in the first place). In FFXIV, it bothers me a lot more. I want to turn the damn thing off.

Is there a psychological reason they don't implement this or something? Do they believe seeing our name take up the middle of the screen all day long make us feel more connected to our character and keeps us playing? I don't know what the reason is, but they need to add this feature quickly. They already have a full window for "name" options, which is currently just 'everything on' or 'everything off', I am sure adding a middle option to the slider would not be an issue.

Of course, knowing SE, the first implementation of this would require 7 pop-up windows to turn the name off and on.

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other mmo's do have this, section 8 prejudice a online shooter has it, as does legue of legends i do belive

I don't know why, but display own name in FFXI wasn't annoying for me, though in FFXIV it does a lot, I think it has something to do with the size.

/thumbs-up to the UI team... on the work done so far...

Surely there are things that we the players clammer for, but I have to say, it's not a bad job in terms of the quality of the UI.

But, I must say, I too would like to add my 2cent of a vote in support of own name on/off switch would be a nice addition.