What things annoy you?

[Canadane]

this

Yes! It also annoys me people aren't aware of party finder and will only use duty finder.

[NekoNova]

Yes! It also annoys me people aren't aware of party finder and will only use duty finder.

Can't blame people for using the tools available...

[Canadane]

Can't blame people for using the tools available...

Thankfully more than one is available.
I don't think the game does a good enough job at teaching the use of party finder.

[Ayuhra]

Thankfully more than one is available.
I don't think the game does a good enough job at teaching the use of party finder.

I started playing in ARR and was pretty much only aware of the PF tool on a level bordering on subconscious until Shadowbringers.




It's definitely a useful tool but it's buried in among countless other menus.

[Kusanagi7]

can only carry 1 phoenix down.

[Cidel]

When I'm out on a DoL job I still have to see that obnoxious "FATE JOINED" or "FATE FAILED" text pop up in my face with sound effects even though I clearly have no interest in it; I'm on a DoL. If it fails when I'm in the vicinity, what do I care? I'm gathering. It should be deactivated for players on DoLs IMO.

[Mansion]

Too much music on useless features : Fate joined, Levequests, Retainers Venture, Quest accepted, Quest completed... That's one of the reasons I play with music off 80% of the time.

[Alleo]

It's funny, because I see "weak arguments", as you put it, emanating from both quarters in that regard.

As for the Ascians, they have enough of a rationale/raison d'etre to allow for them to form a viable side to join if the game were written to accommodate such a possibility. The game is entirely written from the perspective of those who'd stand to lose in such an outcome. That does not mean I, as a player, have to feel any investment in that perspective, though. But it is true that there is a difference between such a thing and sympathising with their story.

Of course both sides can make weak arguments, we are just humans after all.

I meant it more that quite often when you have someone that wants a bad guy to be seen as good then the arguments one uses (if there are arguments) are often weak.

Again I am quite fine if someone says that they like the bad guys and accept that they are bad. Then you can simply just write "I just like X and want them to win because I want to play as a bad character". But if you start a thread with the question on why people see Asians as the bad guys because they are totally in the story the good guys, when the story and its characters do not see them as such, then it should not be surprising that people will argue against you. And of course in such a discussion morality will become part of it. You cant discuss someone being bad or good without using a system to select what is right and what is wrong and that often is the own morality. But the game and its character have often shown what they will see as bad or good too. And those are quite similiar to our own. So honestly I see no problem with mentioning it.

So to stay more on topic:

It annoys me a bit to have people trying to turn a certain character into something else because they want them to be that way. Wanting a good character to do some horrible stuff just so that he too can become "grey" or wanting an outright villian to be seen as the good guy.
I for example love Caius from FF13 as a villian. I can feel for him, I can understand him but that wont change that what he did in the game was horrible.

[Skolopendrokot]

This^. That's why I already disabled music during a battle and when I'm mounted.

There are not too many things that annoy me, but there are a few I just don't like:

1. I like to clean maps from all the quests and I really don't enjoy doing low-level quests from other start cities and areas around them, because I don't feel any progress then. But I suppose we really can't help it.

2. There are a bit too many quests between expansions, too. I understand that they have been added to fill the gaps between them, but there's a problem with feeling the progress - you just see that your character stands still, even though it does a lot of things.

3. Getting the mount after 20 levels. I don't like when a game gives it to you too fast (I like to have a feeling that I worked hard to get it), but in FFXIV you really have run a lot between locations and it's quite frustrating. I wouldn't mind getting my Chocobo a bit earlier.

4. I can't tolerate a few types of players, too. I'm glad that they are nice and helpful in general, but I've met a few cringy people and now I'm a lot more careful about making friends in the game. I always build a thick wall between my personal life and gaming and play FFXIV to relax after work, I really don't need additional stress related to it.

[SturmChurro]

Playing as RDM in trial roulette. Single-handedly raising all of the healers, tanks, and dps at least half a dozen times over the course of the trial, using up all my MP, and not getting a single commendation.