Suggestion: Chat Background Transparency

I brought this up in every beta I could and we still don't have it, so I'm going to do it again on the official forums.

We need a slider to adjust the transparency of the chat box background. I'm sure I'm not the only player with poor vision, and as the chat system is now, I cannot easily read things unless I am in a very dark location. I have played with the colors, and I've even upped the font size to 20, but none of this makes chat readily readable against the busy, constantly changing background you can see through the chat box.

Please, Squeenix. Being unable to read FC and LS chat without giving myself eyestrain is seriously affecting my gaming experience for the worse. Implement a slider to adjust the transparency of the chat box background, for the love of all that is holy and/or unholy.

I agree with this 100%. There should be an option to make the chat log transparent or opaque so we can read the text easier. Also a window color option would be cool too kind of like how you could make your window color different on past final fantasy titles. But yea, this option would be very useful.

Dear God yes please. I want it to be transparent and alot of people seem to want it opaque, just make it an option. In the dev comments during the beta I know they acknowledged that they had heard this from many players but that they were still "looking into it" :(

Didnt we have this option in 1.0 too? Anyway, yeah, transparancy slider, I need a solid background, I struggle to read text at times if there is odd terain under my chat box (and if im in a cs I dont have the option of moving the camera)

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Originally Posted by Daiiawn

Didnt we have this option in 1.0 too? Anyway, yeah, transparancy slider, I need a solid background, I struggle to read text at times if there is odd terain under my chat box (and if im in a cs I dont have the option of moving the camera)

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We did have this option in 1.0. WHY this isn't in 2.0 is beyond me. This lack of chat window log transparency has been seriously hurting my eyes. It needs to be fixed asap please. :/.

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Originally Posted by Suirieko

We did have this option in 1.0. WHY this isn't in 2.0 is beyond me. This lack of chat window log transparency has been seriously hurting my eyes. It needs to be fixed asap please. :/.

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Yes, it's at the point where it's giving me horrible headaches and half the time I have no idea what's going on in FC or LS chat because I simply can't read it. @.@ I need a transparency slider.

I would like to make my chat window the classic FF's blue to darkblue gradient background....


Ahhh...memories.

I feel like some of FC members are feeling disconnected and ignored when I am online. I friggin do not see new msgs when doing a duty. I need solid background.

Has there ever been a dev response to this issue? I know it's not as outwardly game-breaking as a dungeon boss bug or whathaveyou, but this is severely hampering gameplay for me - and possibly many others.

Best thing to do is to keep this thread alive so that it'll get the devs' attention. Because, seriously, for this issue, it can be a game breaker, given how painful it can be to read the chat at times.

Please add this.

Not only is it hard to read with moving background, but i am colorblind.

It doesn't matter what color i set the chat txt to if the background changes i cannot read it and get headaches.

Please, i just need a black background so i can see what is in chat. ;.;

Would be nice to get an official answer.

Still no word from any SE rep regarding this extremely painful issue. Chatting with my friends is an exercise in trying to delay killer headaches. Please help us, Squeenix.

BUMP! Is this not the most frustrating thing ever? I play on my HDTV and I have to move my camera to dark backgrounds just to read ANYTHING. How on earth has this not been addressed? Rawr.

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Originally Posted by Burrmanchu

BUMP! Is this not the most frustrating thing ever? I play on my HDTV and I have to move my camera to dark backgrounds just to read ANYTHING. How on earth has this not been addressed? Rawr.

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That's a really good question, I go through that all the time myself. It's very annoying when I have to adjust my camera to read stuff and half the time I just start ignoring chat, depending on where I am and what I'm doing.

Of course, I still want the FFXI vanishing chatlog too ...

I second this notion. While we're on the topic of the chat, can there be a toggle for the chat to fade after a period of inactivity?

Does anyone know if there's a similar thread on the Japanese forums? Maybe someone can translate the concerns - which are very real and physically damaging - to actually get some attention from Squeenix? I'm starting to think they don't read this stuff at all. x.x

This is an issue with the PC version. The PS3 versions uses the same amount of transparency for the chat log so the issue must be with the text characters themselves.

You can remedy the issue also by increasing the font size or decrease the game resolution.

Unfortunately, increasing the font size does not remedy the issue. I've already increased it significantly, but it does not deal with the root of the problem: the constantly shifting, cluttered, and bright background of the environment makes picking out details like lettering almost impossible.

They addressed this in a post on the 16th.

I agree 100%, I cant read jack all when I am in any shroud area.

So I let this fall by the wayside for a while, but I just wanted to say:

It is absolutely unacceptable that we should have to wait until after 2.2 to have a background transparency slider. This is an obscenely simple UI feature that provides far more benefit than the effort it takes to implement it. Get your shit together, SE, and help us, or do you just not freaking care anymore?

(Yes, I'm upset. I'm tired of dealing with headaches and being unable to follow chats. I'm tired of having to stick myself somewhere dark and not busy just to talk to people. I'm tired of SE putting something off that could be done in a matter of hours.)

It would maybe help if you submitted screen captures showing the issue with the log readability. What's weird, no one is asking to change the duty list to also have a transparency selector. Considering the background of the duty list is completely transparent, maybe a simple slider isn't the solution. Actually a slider isn't needed they just need to find a way to make the log window easily readable at all times.

I hope they add an opacity slider soon. I would like to keep my chat transparent while out in the open world and opaque when in raids.

Need this. I don't get headaches from reading the log, but it sure as hell isn't easy to read. Let me darken it, damn it.

Would also like the option to make the chat log completely transparent and disappear when there is no activity in the log.

I would also like to see this option for us to use cause I really don't like the scheme at the moment.

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Originally Posted by Laraul

This is an issue with the PC version. The PS3 versions uses the same amount of transparency for the chat log so the issue must be with the text characters themselves.

You can remedy the issue also by increasing the font size or decrease the game resolution.

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But really solution does NOT solve what people want - which is an opaque background for their chat

It's that time again...

Come on, we've got a patch incoming (2.16 or something like that - can't remember the number). Please, for the love of all that is holy and unholy, give us relief. Give us a slider for the chatbox background!

Or at the very least a toggle to turn off transparency. And because some people in this forums have weird ideas about how difficult some things are to program, let me point out that the function is already in game:

http://i.imgur.com/Sv6hnX5.jpg

Apply this to the chatbox and you are golden, Squee.

I don't see chat background transparency adjustment in the 2.16 patchnotes, Squee. Get with the program, please!

My eyes... MY EYYYYYEEESS!

2nd'd.

This is horrible. HDTV monitor. Cant see anything sometimes. Awful. Please fix. It was in the old version of the game!:D

It really does give you a headache sometimes. Can't be healthy.

Seriously, SE please fix this!

So i assume this is still not implemented?

That would be a no. I really have no idea why it isn't, though.

Because making a game is time consuming! And devs do not have time to waste on making their game properly! Stop asking for the imposible!

/White Knight mode off.

I have to agree with this one, imo it really should not have been released without it.

please add transparency slider as soon as you can!
many thanks. :)

AUTO-HIDE PLEASE!

O frabjous day!

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The transparency of the log window can now be adjusted.
To adjust transparency, select the Log Window Transparency slider on the General tab of Log Window Settings menu in the Character Configuration interface.

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My eyes and my headaches thank you, SE.

Awesome! Too bad they added it by the time I barely log in anymore. But hey! At long last! Good work there.