Examines you.

[Nuinn]

This + Your Signature = LOL

Siouxsie is watching you

[Reika]

i like looking at people or there bazars while running. it's just something to do, hopefully they add options to do this without it making you stop. i liked running and looking. without that i almost never look. but personally i had every piece of gear almost so i didn't mind getting checked out, but i know some people would literally flip the fuk out for no reason. lol it's there to use. i never bitched people out about gear specially since i usually did this in town running around randomly grabbing people but if i get yelled at i would just spam the crap out of them ...sorry no need to be rude about just looking at your gear lmao. so not having this is fine, i don't need people knowing i'm looking when i am but i don't want to be stopped dead in my tracks when i do, i want to keep running.

Players wont have bazaars in 2.0....

[Shougun]

Players wont have bazaars in 2.0....

But they will still have brassiere, means we still need a check feature.


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[Elexia]

I dunno why people are so against this

Mentioned FFXI on the FFXIV Forums - Check.
People butthurt over a nonissue - Check.

Yep, seems the 2 main reasons present. It's a good feature much like it's tied with "Soandso browses your bazaar/buys" which no one seems to complain about in XI nor did anyone complain about it in XIV (buying). The only issue as said was the wording on JP client.

No, it shouldn't be added to the game. All it did was make people buttholes in XI, and we don't need any more of that nonsense in XIV.

I really hate to break it to you, but those of us who played FFXIV knew there was a check feature in XIV and people were already anal about your meld situation, much worse than in XI.

^^

[Cojika]

The way I see it is, if you don't want to be examined, stay in your Inn room.

This.

If you are that self conscious about what someone else who has no part in paying for your game or playing it for you thinks of what you chose to equip, you really have no business playing an mmorpg. It's gonna happen like it or not and you might as well get over it if you don't want to be in a never-ending state of butt frustration because people keep examining you. I used to have people unequip their gear on XI when I examined them and or try to cry to me about it in which case I would go into troll mode and keep checking them till they stopped switching out and I got to look at whatever I wanted to see. It's not that big of a deal but at the same time but for the sake of the cry babies it's best that the notification of being checked stays out of 14 to avoid the inevitable "omg y u checkin ma gear!!" QQing.

[Yolteotl]

I don't really see anything wrong with bringing it back.

#1 - The only time it really annoyed me in FFXI was when ppl were constantly checking me and going in and out of my bazaar. BUT player bazaars are being removed in ARR, so situation resolved from a different direction.

#2 - Leave it togglable (is that a word?) so ppl who dont want it, dont have it; and ppl who do, do.

Also, whether u get a notification or not, ppl who are going to examine you and judge ur character based on what your wearing at that moment are still going to do so. And honestly, considering this is going to exist anywys, i would like to know when someone does examine me/ That way if it leads to them behaving towards my character as being 'not good enough' i know that this player is someone I don't want to share my game experiences with.

[Reinheart]

This.

If you are that self conscious about what someone else who has no part in paying for you game or playing it for you thinks of what you chose to equip, you really have no business playing an mmorpg. It's gonna happen like it or not and you might as well get over it if you don't want to be in a never-ending state of butt frustration because you were examined. I used to have people unequip their gear on XI when I examined them and or try to cry to me about it in which case I would go into troll mode and keep checking them till they stopped switching out and I got to look at whatever I wanted to see. It's not that big of a deal but at the same time but for the sake of the cry babies it's best that the notification of being checked stays out of 14 to avoid the inevitable "omg y u checkin ma gear!!" QQing.

See that may work with one region only MMORPG but you have to consider not all players play like the US so the devs need to consider all sides of the argument when they decide stuff like this. And as we all know from XIV they didn't put it in, so they may as well keep it that way for their own reasons or they may end up adding it in. We'll have to wait and see, but my guess is it's JP MMORPG after all so they will probably listen to JP players demands. It's just a damn text saying XX is examining you anyways... it doesn't really make any difference if it was displayed or not. But SE knows from XI that majority of JP players did no like it.

[lolodin]

This.

If you are that self conscious about what someone else who has no part in paying for you game or playing it for you thinks of what you chose to equip, you really have no business playing an mmorpg. It's gonna happen like it or not and you might as well get over it if you don't want to be in a never-ending state of butt frustration because you were examined. I used to have people unequip their gear on XI when I examined them and or try to cry to me about it in which case I would go into troll mode and keep checking them till they stopped switching out and I got to look at whatever I wanted to see. It's not that big of a deal but at the same time but for the sake of the cry babies it's best that the notification of being checked stays out of 14 to avoid the inevitable "omg y u checkin ma gear!!" QQing.

they said this on ffxi too but it doesnt solve anything i have no problem with being checked but when the message pops across your screen 20 times in 2min it gets annoying so no thnkz.

[Zezlar]

Never really got offended with people checking me. I always found it as a way to see what gear I could improve on. There are people out there better then me, so I should learn from them. Sending tells to someone complaining about their gear is rude though, even if it is true.

One time in FFXI I had a Warrior's Belt from Dynamis Valkurm, and another war sent me a /tell saying "Wow, a Warrior with a Warrior's Belt but no Amemet Mantle +1. Nice."

[Elexia]

Never really got offended with people checking me. I always found it as a way to see what gear I could improve on. There are people out there better then me, so I should learn from them. Sending tells to someone complaining about their gear is rude though, even if it is true.

One time in FFXI I had a Warrior's Belt from Dynamis Valkurm, and another war sent me a /tell saying "Wow, a Warrior with a Warrior's Belt but no Amemet Mantle +1. Nice."

Yeah I never understood those to be honest lol.

"Wow..you got lucky on a low drop rate item but you didn't splurge on a 2-4 million back piece? (at the time these mattered)"