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[Delsus]

These are all workarounds, I tend to play the game in my living room where people are watching TV, so the only way enabling sounds when the game is minimized would work is using headphones, and unless I really need to I don't really like playing with headphones.

A simple desktop notification (or flashing icon) would be a much better solution, also if you think about the bigger picture, if a deaf player is playing then the sounds are a none option.

[Bluevann]

These are all workarounds, I tend to play the game in my living room where people are watching TV, so the only way enabling sounds when the game is minimized would work is using headphones, and unless I really need to I don't really like playing with headphones.

A simple desktop notification (or flashing icon) would be a much better solution, also if you think about the bigger picture, if a deaf player is playing then the sounds are a none option.

I have sound enabled with XIV on background and watch youtube videos while waiting for DF to pop. Dunno about your hearing, but the duty chime always managed to override the movie's sound to me. The only couple times I didn't notice DF window's pop was when I was in a whole other room such as bathroom or kitchen.

[Delsus]

I have sound enabled with XIV on background and watch youtube videos while waiting for DF to pop. Dunno about your hearing, but the duty chime always managed to override the movie's sound to me. The only couple times I didn't notice DF window's pop was when I was in a whole other room such as bathroom or kitchen.

What the post you quoted was saying, was other people are watching TV, and hearing background sounds from FFXIV will really annoy them, it's not about not being able to hear the chime.

[Obysuca]

What the post you quoted was saying, was other people are watching TV, and hearing background sounds from FFXIV will really annoy them, it's not about not being able to hear the chime.

>.> I'm just going to say it.

XIV sounds annoying people watching tv? Move the computer into another room. Problem solved.

[HoneyBiscuit]

A simple desktop notification (or flashing icon) would be a much better solution, also if you think about the bigger picture, if a deaf player is playing then the sounds are a none option.

Workarounds to your problem not the game's problem. There doesn't need to be a solution because it's not actually an issue.

You can also set your game to borderless windowed mode and shrink your internet browser so you can still see the game and watch for the notification too.

Granted this is also an issue for players who are both blind and deaf.

[Naunet]

Workarounds to your problem not the game's problem. There doesn't need to be a solution because it's not actually an issue.

The hostility really isn't needed here.

I very much appreciate how Rift flashes the taskbar icon when something happens in the game and you're not tabbed into it - such as entering combat, getting a party invite or a whisper, the dungeon queue popping, etc. It's a very simple thing and quite useful.

[HoneyBiscuit]

The hostility really isn't needed here.

That came off as hostile? Was it the italics? I tend to take more provocation to be truly hostile towards someone. And I did offer solutions to his problem originally to be fair.

Either way, the problem is not that the game isn't telling him something. It's that he's not paying attention.

Like if you were talking to me and I wasn't listening. And you take offense to me not listening but, I tell you to just speak louder. It's not your problem, it's mine.

I don't mean to say the feature wouldn't be nice. But it's not an issue or a problem or a design flaw and shouldn't be treated as such. And no it was not directly described as such, but he said "solution." You don't look for solutions to suggestions. They answer problems. Problems are bad. Perhaps his words should have been chosen better.

[Delsus]

That came off as hostile? Was it the italics? I tend to take more provocation to be truly hostile towards someone. And I did offer solutions to his problem originally to be fair.

Either way, the problem is not that the game isn't telling him something. It's that he's not paying attention.

Like if you were talking to me and I wasn't listening. And you take offense to me not listening but, I tell you to just speak louder. It's not your problem, it's mine.

I don't mean to say the feature wouldn't be nice. But it's not an issue or a problem or a design flaw and shouldn't be treated as such. And no it was not directly described as such, but he said "solution." You don't look for solutions to suggestions. They answer problems. Problems are bad. Perhaps his words should have been chosen better.

Honestly most people here are sounding very hostile, the feature I am asking for is in a lot of windows programs, and should be very simple to add. If people don't alt tab whilst DF is open then good for you, I aren't complaining, I am just stating that this is what some people would do rather than sit around waiting. It's not that I aren't paying attention it's more at that paticular time I don't want to do other things, also if I have maxed my beastmen rep is maxed out, I don't like crafting and gathering isn't really worth it, therefore there is not a lot to do, so why not use another application whilst waiting. We do afterall use PCs to multitask, if you just want to play a game and nothing else that's what consoles are for.

But thank you for showing me the truth of the community. One thing gets requested and because "You should be playing the game" everyone is being hostile, and even attacking me over it

A very big complaint of 1.0 was that we can't alt-tab, and now according to replies in this thread we can't use it because we aren't playing the game?