[Definition] Accept Friend Request?

To me, clicking "No" means I don't want to accept a friend request.

I don't understand how that's different from "Decline friend request" in the friends list, and why the request even appears there; meaning I have to also right click on it, choose decline, and click another confirmation box to finally decline the request.

Would it be possible to stop those requests from going to the friends list as pending or whatever it is, if someone clearly presses No? Perhaps the current functionality would be necessary if there was also a countdown timer on friend requests and it got missed.

Was anything like this suggested before?

That and tons of other things have been suggested already, countless times too, to battle RMTs. :D But we're not Japanese, so SE doesn't listen. Or so it seems, anyway. :(

I think others have requested that the whole thing goes away if the person selects no but I don't know if Square has ever responded. I just go straight to the friend list and select decline rather than clicking no first. Clears both at the same time that way. Then the name goes to the blacklist.

Thank you both. Just seems kind of illogical and obviously inconvenient. Hopefully one day we'll see an improvement.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks thats completely ridiculous. It only makes them more annoying than necessary.

Yea it's pretty tedious. If I click no, that means I don't want you on the friendslist, not that I'm saving my decision for a later date.

There's a lot of superfluous clicking in general imo :/
"Do you want to use this key that only goes to this one door? Keep in mind that this is a linear path and you must open this one door, for which there is just this one key that you can never use for anything else ever. Are you sure? Really sure? Absolutely sure? Y'know we'll just assume you said no just to be safe, please click yes on all confirmations one more time."

But yeah, on a more relevant note, the extra clicks specifically regarding friends lists are silly. Without it, the worst case is you accidentally decline a real request and just tell em to add you again. Big whoop.

Just imagine if the earlier shared teleports had worked the same way? If "no" meant "not right now, I'll just hold on to the offer for later though" instead of "no, I don't want to use it". Then we'd never have seen threads to request a "wait" option...

So, to go on from that... Why not simply add a third button just like with the TP offers. "Yes", "No" and "Wait". Where "No" declines the friend request completely.

Well...
Friend request: decline, open friend list, click, decline, click.
Blacklist: click, click.
Report: open window, click (if the thing loads, if not, switch between tabs, ie. CLICK a few more times), write, click. If it's something the "STF" should see - exit game, go to generic SE games website, find obscure link, etc.
Clear new message notification: open window, open message (if it loads, if not, switch between tabs), close, click, click. Then open it again, click reply, click return, close, click, click, close window via X, close main window too.

Think instead:
Decline+report+blacklist: open notification, report & blacklist, OK.
Blacklist+report: right click, report & blacklist, OK.
New message: open notification, mark as read, OK.

What is and what should be. And why isn't it so is anyone's guess, really... :/

Also, the way this utterly pointless character limit punishes all meaningful posts (extra window, highlight, cut, post, edit, paste, save) with a cumbersome extra steps just to get things done... same principle, really. And I suppose there is a few more such in this game. Mindless and incomprehensible with the tiniest amount of common sense.

You know, I'm willing to bet if the majority of the NA/EU playerbase were to suddenly CANCEL all at once with "RMT" as the reason for leaving, S-E would suddenly friggin' notice ( and remember, canceling still allows you to play until your times up and you can always renew ).

If the internet can have an international "black out day", then I'm sure FFXIV players can organize an international "NO MORE RMT!" day for one game.

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Originally Posted by Skeith-Adeline

Yea it's pretty tedious. If I click no, that means I don't want you on the friendslist, not that I'm saving my decision for a later date.

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Yes, this exactly. This is all I am asking for acknowledgement of.

Do I really care about the people that send me friend requests? Sometimes yes, but most of the time no. I believe FFXIV should look at their policy of friend requests and revise it. By that I mean players should have to ask if they can send a friend request before they send it to another player. I have noticed that players harass other players simply by sending a friend request when the recipient has indicated in their Search Info window that they are not receptive to friend requests. This principle can also be applied to the requests to join a Free Company (FC). I have received numerous requests to join a FC when I have expressly stated in my Search Info window that I did not want to join a FC. Again, I feel it's a form of harassment because other MMOs have a setting whereby you can automatically refuse to join a FC (guild in other games). Of course getting SE to change that to a setting to automatically refuse FC requests is impossible. As one post said above, SE doesn't care about their North American (NA) players. It's SE's way or the highway. SE has put together a fun game; but it certainly has things that I would change because they are detrimental to the playing experience.

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Originally Posted by MercedesAnnMaria

players should have to ask if they can send a friend request before they send it to another player.

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You want to require people to request authorization to send a friend request before sending the friend request?

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Originally Posted by Skeith-Adeline

Yea it's pretty tedious. If I click no, that means I don't want you on the friendslist, not that I'm saving my decision for a later date.

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But some people may want to wait until later.

Everything needs a 2-step confirmation because it's so easy to accidentally click just as the dialogue box pops up and confirm/deny something you didn't want to.

This game has friend request!?

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Originally Posted by MercedesAnnMaria

I believe FFXIV should look at their policy of friend requests and revise it. By that I mean players should have to ask if they can send a friend request before they send it to another player. I have noticed that players harass other players simply by sending a friend request when the recipient has indicated in their Search Info window that they are not receptive to friend requests. This principle can also be applied to the requests to join a Free Company (FC). I have received numerous requests to join a FC when I have expressly stated in my Search Info window that I did not want to join a FC.

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I agree that their Friendlist/Blacklist policies are a bit whack. If you remove them from your friendslist you're still on theirs apparently so they don't get insulted you no longer consider them a friend. This is a particularly dangerous policy that enables stalking.

Blacklisting somebody does not prevent them from being matched in a DF duty. If you're earned a place on my BL I do. not. want. to play with that person until I remove them from the BL. However it does prevent you from receiving whispers and invites from that character.

I agree that we should have much better control over who can send invites. At the very least a way to auto reject them without having to turn on Busy status which prevents everybody from sending whispers including friends.

There is a workaround for FC spam. Start the process for starting an FC. It does leave a notification in your list that you're gathering signatures but if that doesn't bother you you will no longer get FC invites. Another option is to find somebody with another account and have them make 3 alts to sign the FC charter.