Quote Originally Posted by Syrehn View Post
It's my thought that this message is triggered each time a player slides into a Dye colour. I think if you don't see a message it might not necessarily be that your colour isn't shifting but that you're not shifting enough to hit one of the SE Dye colours.
I had this same thought yesterday, but there are many people who are posting no color change initially without a message. This might be one of two things --

1.) Desert Yellow is in it's own Dye color range, and it will not change unless you get a message. (Your theory.)

or

2.) New feathers message starts to slide the chocobo up and down the color slider, depending on what you feed it.

There have been a couple of post already pointing to 2.), people getting angry that they fed X number of berries and saw no color change, perhaps because they didn't get a new feathers message.