Please alter the sound of the /shakedrink emote

I wish I had somewhere other than here to send this feedback, but so it goes.

The sound of the /shakedrink emote is very loud, never ends, and significant for me and undoubtedly some other people, triggers my misophonia such that I have a negative physical reaction to the sound. Dozens of players have used it to irritate and grief in such places as Limsa Lominsa and around the Gold Saucer aetheryte. Players have even made alts and whole free companies dedicated to using /shakedrink at crowded aetherytes in order to grief other players.

I have nearly 30 players on my blacklist because of this emote, which has significantly cut down on the problem, and I've also changed my audio settings to reduce the sound from other players, but this does not work in instances and raids where people will use the emote while waiting for someone to watch a cutscene or for planning. The only way to escape that is to leave the instance entirely and take a 30 minute penalty, though fortunately some people have been kind and stopped when asked. Though by then, for me, the damage has already been done and my physical reaction to the sound won't die down for several minutes.

So I would like to ask that the sound either be altered--lowered in volume, changed somewhat--or better yet, that the sound for the emote no longer loops, so that using the emote will only make a sound of a few seconds length rather than one that lasts for hours.

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Originally Posted by Astronis

I wish I had somewhere other than here to send this feedback, but so it goes.

The sound of the /shakedrink emote is very loud, never ends, and significant for me and undoubtedly some other people, triggers my misophonia such that I have a negative physical reaction to the sound. Dozens of players have used it to irritate and grief in such places as Limsa Lominsa and around the Gold Saucer aetheryte. Players have even made alts and whole free companies dedicated to using /shakedrink at crowded aetherytes in order to grief other players.

I have nearly 30 players on my blacklist because of this emote, which has significantly cut down on the problem, and I've also changed my audio settings to reduce the sound from other players, but this does not work in instances and raids where people will use the emote while waiting for someone to watch a cutscene or for planning. The only way to escape that is to leave the instance entirely and take a 30 minute penalty, though fortunately some people have been kind and stopped when asked. Though by then, for me, the damage has already been done and my physical reaction to the sound won't die down for several minutes.

So I would like to ask that the sound either be altered--lowered in volume, changed somewhat--or better yet, that the sound for the emote no longer loops, so that using the emote will only make a sound of a few seconds length rather than one that lasts for hours.

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I fully agree with this, I dont know why this game loves to support the most obnoxious things, teleporting to Limsa and having 5 people doing that emote while being afk is the most annoying thing and the sound is loud and triggering even if I dont have a disorder but I still do have tinnitus and it triggers the ringing in my ears pretty badly, same for the blacksmith forges and the screeching with the stone for whatever other job it is, and no, muting the entire game or sound effects is not an option.

Give us more options for sound effects.

You can lower the sound in System Configuration > Sound Settings > Sound Effects

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Originally Posted by yesnt

You can lower the sound in System Configuration > Sound Settings > Sound Effects

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That doesnt work, that lowers all sound effects and we shouldnt have to basically mute the entire game because of it.

You do not lower every sound, you lower specifically Sound Effects and it will not "mute the entire game".

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Originally Posted by yesnt

You do not lower every sound, you lower specifically Sound Effects and it will not "mute the entire game".

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It quite literally lowers the sound of... every sound effect, because of one or two. So no that's not a solution.

Sound effects do not affect Master Volume, BGM, Voice, System Sounds, Ambient Sounds nor Performance, so it does absolutely not "mute the game". OP asked for an option to lower this sound, there it is. I have lowered it too because the sound of steps is way over the top in my experience. Give it a try.

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Originally Posted by yesnt

You can lower the sound in System Configuration > Sound Settings > Sound Effects

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That would impede my gameplay, as I rely on sound effects in combat. I have drastically lowered Player Effects Volume > Other PCs and this mitigates the issue somewhat, but this does not work when in an instance--and I use other player's combat sounds to inform my own play. Mass-blacklisting has also mitigated the issue, but not solved it.

To be clear: I did not ask for an option to lower the sound. I asked SE to change or alter the looping of the sound.

The only real solution to the issue of SE handing players a tool that is so easy to use to grief is in SE's hands, hence the request.

I hate to break it to you, but your request will go straight into the void like the other 99% of requests people ask for in the forums. There are third party tools that can help you with that problem or you lower your Sound Effects.

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Originally Posted by yesnt

I hate to break it to you, but your request will go straight into the void like the other 99% of requests people ask for in the forums.

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Possible. On the other hand, several small things I've brought to SE's attention have been addressed, so I know they read the forums and do sometimes act on them. This is specifically where SE wants these sorts of suggestions to be made. So I make my request and let it be while making liberal use of /blist add <t>.

The Shaking emote is the most annoying thing I've seen in a while. The number of people that just shake endlessly...I had to blacklist a few so I don't have to hear it.

Tossing in my support for this; other persistent emotes with sound effects don't quite have this level of annoyance.

Another game I play will gradually mute sound effects if people spam an emote or if it's a persistent emote playing for a bit. I feel like that's something that could be implemented as a toggle somewhere.

I think they should just remove the sound entirely. It's not necessary and the irritation to others has to far exceed whatever weird pleasure some get out of using this while AFK for hours.

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Originally Posted by TheDustyOne

Tossing in my support for this; other persistent emotes with sound effects don't quite have this level of annoyance.

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You haven't heard Miqo'te-moan or Lala-WAH! on repeat then.

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Originally Posted by yesnt

You haven't heard Miqo'te-moan or Lala-WAH! on repeat then.

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Oh I have, but they're not persistent emotes, that's just jerks spamming something intentionally.

My character has a /stretch that would put the miqo'te moan to shame, but I at least have to be at my keyboard if I want to annoy someone with it.

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Originally Posted by TheDustyOne

at least have to be at my keyboard if I want to annoy someone with it.

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That is also not true, people can spam such things without having to attend to their keyboard.

Jerry rigging is still having to set it up manually to intentionally annoy someone, even macros in-game only last for 15 lines. Whereas /shakedrink just does it by default.

Edit: Spamming emotes is also grounds for reports of spam, /shakedrink would be harder to prove that you're intentionally annoying someone with it.

Setting up your keyboard to spam "1" every second is no effort for someone who uses these tools anyway. My point is, if people want to annoy you, they will find a way.

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Originally Posted by yesnt

Setting up your keyboard to spam "1" every second is no effort for someone who uses these tools anyway. My point is, if people want to annoy you, they will find a way.

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That's not an argument for why the game should put in easily-used looping emotes that they know or should know people would use to annoy others.

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Originally Posted by yesnt

Setting up your keyboard to spam "1" every second is no effort for someone who uses these tools anyway. My point is, if people want to annoy you, they will find a way.

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I'm aware, my point is that the game itself hasn't set those up as persistent annoyances, the annoyance is from the user wanting to be a nuisance rather than the way the emotes themselves were designed. People who spam those (and automate the spam) are technically reportable, while someone afking with /shakedrink isn't.

Either way the solution I offered would fix both, I do very much hate it when people spam their moans, angry emotes, and whatever loud noises their character can utter.

Good, then I want to add that desynthesis and materia melding noise gets removed from the game. Actually, all the crafting sound is annoying as heck.

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Originally Posted by yesnt

Good, then I want to add that desynthesis and materia melding noise gets removed from the game. Actually, all the crafting sound is annoying as heck.

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I'm beginning to think you are an AFK shaker.

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Originally Posted by ZephyrMenodora

I'm beginning to think you are an AFK shaker.

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Ho dear, now you make it sound lewd. But to be serious, I hear a lot more crafter sounds on repeat than I hear shake loops.

Oh, poor baby. How ever would you survive in the real world? I personally like the sound effects & will make sure to use it more often around big crowed areas again like hunts. I haven't seen anyone use that emote in a while over extracting/melding sounds. At least be more upset about the sound effects that plays when you turn something in the FC or when the retainers comes back with items.

Throwing in my support as well. Hopefully this extends to other noises made by emotes like /sweep. Give us the option to tone it down or mute emote noises specifically. Misophonia also gets underplayed too often it's not even funny.

i too think the sound for that emote is a little bit too loud

There are solutions that exist today to solve your problems, just not through squeenix, if you're on PC.

Make it louder

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Originally Posted by Va_L

There are solutions that exist today to solve your problems, just not through squeenix, if you're on PC.

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People in this very thread have declared their intent to use the emote to grief. There is nothing I can do on my PC to solve that problem.

Spamming emotes is actually a restricted activity. The rules are not precise about what constitutes that.
I'm pretty sure 'nuisance' use of an emote even if it's ongoing rather than repetitive could be covered if the GMs are sensitive enough.
So at the very least report every infraction.

They should definitely have a sound tab for 'emote' kinda like how they have a tab for 'performance'. Sometimes I want some sound effects to be turned off- but not *every* sound effect.

I'm really sorry that you're getting harassed in game and on the forums over this. That isn't right.