We should be able to mute crafters

[Bsrking5]

This is how bad it's gotten. When people complain about people who they can literally walk away from.... If they are crafting they can't move. Just go somewhere else.

[Stormpeaks]

This is how bad it's gotten. When people complain about people who they can literally walk away from.... If they are crafting they can't move. Just go somewhere else.

Or just give a small option to turn them off, it doesnt take much now does it ?

[littlehobbit13]

This is how bad it's gotten. When people complain about people who they can literally walk away from.... If they are crafting they can't move. Just go somewhere else.

Flip this argument on its head for a sec. For me, the "nails on a chalkboard" noises are the desynthing or materia removal sounds. There are people who will do mass desynth or materia removal right by the scrip npc in limsa where plenty of people are stuck crafting, and unable to move. They're perfectly capable of walking away and going to unpopulated areas before they desynth stuff for like 5 minutes straight, and they choose not to. It shouldn't always be on the person having the problem to resolve. Sometimes it falls to the person creating the problem, if the problem is easier to solve on their end. (And I say this as someone who has more than once packed up my crafting and moved elsewhere to get away.)

The point is that it would be easier to just have a way to selectively control background sounds to tailor your personal game experience without it overly inconveniencing you OR the other person. And in the absence of that, it would be cool of people to endeavor to just be somewhat mindful of the players around them. No different from the established etiquette to turn off your emote notifications so you don't spam chat.