New partylist chat numbers... why?

All this change is doing is cluttering up my chat list it is distracting and not helpful. I don't see how putting the partylist numbers before someone's name in the chat is useful, plus I don't see any way to disable it.

If there is a way can someone please let me know, if not SE please let us turn this feature off.

I was going to post a thread on this too, its too much, the description text for the menu items while using a controller is also just annoying as heck. Very distasteful. At least let us toggle that clutter off.

The menu help stuff you can disable, Character Config > UI > General > uncheck the help text with cross menu box

Oh, I thought I had just somehow never noticed the numbers before. I do find them useful but it should be a toggle option just like timestamps, surely? People on low resolution screens (or PS3, for now) get a lot of clutter in their chatboxes as it is.

(I suspect it's more useful for Japanese players as it takes a bit longer to read the player names than if they were written in Japanese and the numbers add efficiency, but that's just a guess; I'm fluent in English and when I'm in Japanese parties constantly switching languages between reading names and actual text does introduce a bit of brain lag.)

Maybe it is so you know which xXxSephirot xXx is being a bad boy in chat. Other than that, not sure why they would add it.

It's most likely there to make it easier to seee who is talking for those that have names shortened.

Maybe for Cross Server where it's possible to have up to all 8 party members witj exactly the same name. That way you know it's Garu 8 & not Garu 4 that told you to ram a Paissa up your bum, or something. XD

At first I thought they were a bit weird, but less than a day later I've got used to them already :D

I wish I could turn them off. I just don't like the way they look on the screen.

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Originally Posted by Mholito

It's most likely there to make it easier to seee who is talking for those that have names shortened.

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I suspect this is the actual reason, yeah. Would suck if you have initials on and accidentally boot the wrong B.D. or something just because there's a guy named Big D*** and Bob Dole both in your party and you didn't actually know which of them was trolling and which of them was being vote-kicked.

I like it. I abbreviated their names, but I still know who is talking because of the numbers.

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Originally Posted by Istaru

Maybe it is so you know which xXxSephirot xXx is being a bad boy in chat. Other than that, not sure why they would add it.

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This is most likely it, well in two ways, Cross-Server Party Finder would have an issue where if My name was Jack Smith and another player was also Jack Smith and we were in the same party, it would be difficult to know which Jack Smith was talking.

The numbers make more sense than to have Jack Smith(Hyperion): Say words here. . . and. . . Jack Smith(Excalibur) say words here.

They actually simplified the interface by using numbers since there was a time when they did show some mock screenshots of 2.0, they did have plans to show the world the player was on beside their name but thinking on it a number is a lot better.

It'd be more useful if everyone's party list displayed people in the same order like in B&S. As FFXIV's party list system is right now though, I don't find much use for the numbers in chat.

I don't find use to them either, but I assumed they were there in case you got people with duplicate names in your party, which is now possible with cross-server party finder.
It still seems kind of excessive to ALWAYS display them, just for the rare occasion when that happens .-.

I don't have a problem myself as my mind instantly ignores them. I rarely read the names anyway bc in many cases I'm in fast paced instances where it's easier to check the names above the characters instead of looking at the chat and then the party list to check what class that person is, in case they're saying something related to roles.

But I agree. We bought the game, we pay to have access to it. We should get as many options as possible to optimize our individual experiences.