So who else is nuking their chatbox for the duration of EW till the end of the story?

I have decided to based on not wanting to deal with "omg so and so made a rotation guide with the leaks, you should be doing x and y, not y and x, didn't you read it?!"

I want my immersion, plot, and enjoyment of the conclusion.

So I personally will be ignoring everyone. At least until the story says 'ending or to be continued.'

I doubt I'll disable my chat windows, though I generally don't use trusts if I don't have to and would prefer to have the channel open if something I've missed needs to be communicated.

If I was determined to not talk to anyone, I'd just do everything I could with trusts.

Haha, not too worried about it. Filters and all. Plus I am gonna be glued to the story.

Me! All pings from FFXIV Discords muted, going to silence any notifications on my phone too. In game, even though I doubt I'll be able to log in, I've put everything from custom emotes to yells in a different window from General. Had this way ever since I started playing.

I intend to do both that and to just finish the MSQ in one sitting to avoid all and any spoilers.

It's an MMO, so not going to mute anything, as the talk in chat is part of the MMO-launch experience to me. I at least hope that people queueing the story dungeons/trials via duty finder have enough decency to turn chat on to communicate for the new fights (if several wipes happen)

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It's an MMO, so not going to mute anything, as the talk in chat is part of the MMO-launch experience to me. I at least hope that people queueing the story dungeons/trials via duty finder have enough decency to turn chat on to communicate for the new fights (if several wipes happen)

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If like 5 wipes happen maybe. But based on my Castrum experience ergh.

My biggest fear is. Because of the media tour people already know every skill changed. Me? I main SMN but have opted NOT to look at the new skills as I want to learn it on my own and not depend on someone who jumped at leaks and already made a rotation before anyone else could.

In Bozja not even 3 days after it was out, someone made a guide. After that? The whole mindset and flow of Bozja changed and you were expected to know how to clear castrum efficiently and know everything because omg someone made a guide and you should read that guide and not do any thinking for yourself. ... only 3 days of being released.

If people start on that crap it will RUIN the story. Hence, just not looking at party chat, and nuking it.

My chat will be in event mode and I'll avoid youtube and twitter until I'm done with the msq. I don't want anything spoiled for me. In shadowbringers launch I was foolish enough to open youtube and the first suggestion was a guide for the last boss... Not making that mistake again.

I'll be turning off /shout that's for sure lol.

I'm gonna be a menace and shout stuff that sounds like spoilers then completely ignore MSQ while leveling up Reaper to 80.

Agent of Chaos baby.

Muting everything and avoiding the Internet.

Just filter out say, yell etc. If you're in a "mega guild" I'd filter that too cuz it's usually just a glorified zone chat. I've started 2 expansion solo so far and have never encountered spoilers in msq dungeon parties. Most are experiencing it with you within the first week so safe to leave party chat on.

Why? that's top-tier content!

The other thing I did last expansion launch, which was quite nice, was turning off the overhead names for other players so they're less noticable on the screen.

I'll probably leave mine as they are. The only chats I have to worry about are zone chats and city chats. I won't be in cities much for a few days, so...that's basically a non issue. And I'm in an FC with me, myself and I. Don't gotta worry about that. lol Will definitely be avoiding the forums though, at least for the most part.

Already got most chat muted already so don't have to deal with weirdos and RMT in cities.
in my FC I already employed a strict no spoiler policy which may be harsh to some but that's what I did for SHB and not gonna change for EW.

I won't change anything. Reading other players reaction during dungeons and trials is part of the launch experience.

I'll be avoiding the forum until I'm done with the MSQ's and I'll be muting everything in Discord for that same period as well. As for in-game interactions, I'll just avoid looking at any of the public chat channels other than when in a dungeon or trial if there's a need to discuss mechanics.

I don't think I can. I chat a lot with my FC and linkshells. A few might slip up but it doesn't bother me too much as to ruin my enjoyment. I think I'll at least mute /say, /yell, & /shout chat though.

Why nuke something I hardly look at out of fear, unless its from the freecompany or a whisper? I already don't trust people today to not take something wrong and feel "offeneded" SO I don't bother looking at chat unless it something important with someone I can trust.

Endwalker is Single Player until I beat the story.

I'm not nuking it but I am recommending to others that they at least turn off most of the public chat channels (including linkshells) if they are worried about spoilers.

I probably should. I don't ever get hit with stuff from trolls, and my FC is real good about not spewing spoilers, but YA NEVER KNOW. This is my first expansion release while actively playing and I don't want it ruined ;u;

It's wise to at least remain in the Event window for the duration if you really want to avoid spoilers. If you look at shout people will discuss what is happening there and occasionally spoil mechanics in trials when it probably doesn't matter enough to be spoiled on them, at least on the first attempt.

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I have decided to based on not wanting to deal with "omg so and so made a rotation guide with the leaks, you should be doing x and y, not y and x, didn't you read it?!"

I want my immersion, plot, and enjoyment of the conclusion.

So I personally will be ignoring everyone. At least until the story says 'ending or to be continued.'

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I have a channel with only the MSQ dialogue and I'll probably disable all the other chat channels, so I won't get spoilers.

I really like the idea of doing all the MSQ dungeons possible with the Trust System. I really felt like I was on an adventure with my Scion friends.

It's a shame that there was only one boss during the ShB relics quest series that allows you to do the trials with the Scions.

I did that in ShB, I'll probably do it again in Endwalker. It'll remind me that my game is in japanese voice, it's a shame that the Npc merchants and others don't speak like in WoW or other games. Some sort of hello/goodbye phrase would be so cool for the immersion.

And of course, I'll take my time.

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It's wise to at least remain in the Event window for the duration if you really want to avoid spoilers. If you look at shout people will discuss what is happening there and occasionally spoil mechanics in trials when it probably doesn't matter enough to be spoiled on them, at least on the first attempt.

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The event tab isn't really useful though, and I don't like seeing the past dialogue sitting there.

It's better to just go into the chat log settings and turn off all the say/shout/FC/whatever checkboxes, soy you've still got mostly your usual chat alerts and system announcements.

Play in JP data center, gonna play with Trust to explore mechanic and new class changes myself, and read rotation guides on Discord if necessary.


Also has a NPC dialogue-only chat tab.

Wait. Based on what people say in tales of the dutyfinder thread most people don't even read chat anyway. D:

I'm usually in a chat tab that doesn't have say or shout enabled anyway. It's happened a lot of times where I don't realize that somebody is talking to me in say because of it :p

I will turn off all character names (except friend's) and disabled the whole chat to have a immersive experience.
My UI will also be drastically scaled down so that i see more of the world.

Obviously I will not watch YT/ reddit/ etc because I'm busy with EW anyway.

I hopefully can get a free day on Friday and Monday, so that i probably will be ahead of most of the potential spoilers.

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My UI will also be drastically scaled down so that i see more of the world.

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Oh yeah, that too. Questing needs a lot less UI than dungeon gameplay.

I am planning on putting it on Event until I am done with the story.
I am genuinely afraid of spoilers I won't visit the forum ( lots of trolls......... ) or social media at all I am cutting myself off completely.

Event and my FC because I do trust ppl in my FC.
I actually do think that there will be morons trying to spoil things this time, some idiots get off on that and think it's '' funny ''.

I mean, you people realise that it's not normal to bury your head in the sand to avoid spoilers, right?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gfmvmg5v3CQ/sddefault.jpg

If the story is good, it will stand on it's own whether you know what's gonna happen or not. If the story has to rely on surprisepikachuface-shock-value-momenting you every turn, then it's a lazy and poorly written story. So far the story has been very cliche and predictable at every turn, which I'm not saying as a bad thing, but rather that it has been enjoyable despite this, and without having to resort to jumping out of a box right into your face.

Plus the more psychotic you act the more power you give to people that get a laugh out of shouting spoilers. If they don't get a rise out of you, they get bored and stop doing it.

tl;dr no spoiler culture is such a tumblr thing, and tumblr is dead. move along.

I only have whispers, FC, Party, and raid chats open anyway. I hate reading the things people say in the open chats so makes no difference to me.

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I mean, you people realise that it's not normal to bury your head in the sand to avoid spoilers, right?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gfmvmg5v3CQ/sddefault.jpg

If the story is good, it will stand on it's own whether you know what's gonna happen or not. If the story has to rely on surprisepikachuface-shock-value-momenting you every turn, then it's a lazy and poorly written story. So far the story has been very cliche and predictable at every turn, which I'm not saying as a bad thing, but rather that it has been enjoyable despite this, and without having to resort to jumping out of a box right into your face.

Plus the more psychotic you act the more power you give to people that get a laugh out of shouting spoilers. If they don't get a rise out of you, they get bored and stop doing it.

tl;dr no spoiler culture is such a tumblr thing, and tumblr is dead. move along.

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How is it psychotic to turn off a chat and avoid social media for a couple of days?

I've never been on Tumblr and I avoid spoilers all the same.

There's a difference between the story "only" being enjoyable because of shock value, and one that doesn't rely on it but is nevertheless more enjoyable because you didn't see things coming.

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I've never been on Tumblr and I avoid spoilers all the same.

There's a difference between the story "only" being enjoyable because of shock value, and one that doesn't rely on it but is nevertheless more enjoyable because you didn't see things coming.

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I actually generally don't care about spoilers, in fact I go out of my way to spoil myself when I can I just like to find out asap.
But this is one of the rare exceptions and I'd actually be really salty if I got spoiled, the story has been going for like a decade now and it's one of if not arguably my favorite game of all time so yeah this time I want it to be special and I want to experience it all fresh and for the first time.

It doesn't rly matter if it's predictable or whatever, not sure I'd say I think that either but even if it was I still think that figuring out and guessing things yourself and then seeing it happen is more fun than reading it online and knowing it 100%.
And yeah I don't think anyone is arguing that spoilers are bad because it gets carried by shock value.
Shock value is not bad in and of itself either it's all about execution.

I have shout and yell turned off, that's as far as I intend to go with it.

I honestly don't care what others think, the job changes tend to be very intuitive and everyone will be learning together, if I make a mistake, so be it.

As for spoilers, I prefer to avoid them, but if I get spoiled is usually whatever unless it's something big. Good thing is that my FC/CWLS tend to keep those to as minimum as possible.

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I mean, you people realise that it's not normal to bury your head in the sand to avoid spoilers, right?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gfmvmg5v3CQ/sddefault.jpg

If the story is good, it will stand on it's own whether you know what's gonna happen or not. If the story has to rely on surprisepikachuface-shock-value-momenting you every turn, then it's a lazy and poorly written story. So far the story has been very cliche and predictable at every turn, which I'm not saying as a bad thing, but rather that it has been enjoyable despite this, and without having to resort to jumping out of a box right into your face.

Plus the more psychotic you act the more power you give to people that get a laugh out of shouting spoilers. If they don't get a rise out of you, they get bored and stop doing it.

tl;dr no spoiler culture is such a tumblr thing, and tumblr is dead. move along.

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Can’t help but feel this is a bad hot take on the matter.

Not going to address your views on the story save to say I disagree, it feels clear to me you haven’t gone through all of it, though I may be wrong in regards to that. I still disagree however.


All of that having been said, folks are right to wish to avoid spoilers. Because if they get spoiled, they are, in turn, robbed of a memory that would have been otherwise genuine and true, and held deeply within their hearts and cherished.

Instead spoilers rob them of these moments, of these memories they would have otherwise had. I feel they are justified in wanting to minimize if not outright negate that issue entirely.