Weather Effects Toggle

[PrettyPrincess]

You don't need the weather toggled on to know what conditions there are in the field. Just look at the weather icon. Excuse me for being blunt, but are you sure you got the right message to him? It sounds like he's answering a different question. This is more of a graphical issue for low spec systems. It has nothing to do with removing the graphical weather effects altogether.

{yes please}

[Fusionx]

Spoke with Yoshida about current lack of a weather effect toggle. Currently, there really isn’t any meaning to the weather that occurs randomly within the realm of Eorzea, however, in the future plan on making weather a much more meaningful event and as such do not plan on implementing a toggle.

Can we get weather added into cities in the future as well then? It doesn't make sense that it's pouring in Thanalan and then when you go into Ul'dah the rain has suddenly stopped. Is there a reason for this?

[Aistaraina]

Can we get weather added into cities in the future as well then? It doesn't make sense that it's pouring in Thanalan and then when you go into Ul'dah the rain has suddenly stopped. Is there a reason for this?

Walk into Ul'dah. Look at frame rate and GPU temp. Now add in crazy weather effects. Watch frame rate dip and GPU temp soar!

[Zenaku]

Can we get weather added into cities in the future as well then? It doesn't make sense that it's pouring in Thanalan and then when you go into Ul'dah the rain has suddenly stopped. Is there a reason for this?

The city have lag as it is i don't think adding rain in the city going to help us much. Do you remember the snow? i sure did and even people with good pc had lag. But i do agree maybe once this game is fix and the core system is fix they could add this i do like to see it rain within the city.

[Zenaku]

Spoke with Yoshida about current lack of a weather effect toggle. Currently, there really isn’t any meaning to the weather that occurs randomly within the realm of Eorzea, however, in the future plan on making weather a much more meaningful event and as such do not plan on implementing a toggle.

other words you have no idea how to make a toggle so you don't want to waste your time and money to fix it you just make events for it to make up for it this seem to be SE response for everything

Sorry right now we can't fix the issue with mobs SP so we going to add quest hubs so you can spam the same quest over and over and get sp. I don't want to solo i want to party and fight mobs.

I'm starting to lose hope with SE all there response are the same. I don't know about everyone else but did you hear the response about the sound in the game? where you want to just shut up the weather or something else but can't? or about the issue with alt-tab? then again 1 person fix the issue in few week of beta release?

If you don't know how to do it yourself hire a 3 party company to come and help you out... i don't want to wait 5years for a fix that it's to late. In ffxi there so many issue now being fix why could you not make all the AH link from day 1 of the game? oh now you want to link them?

how about ffxiv wards? can't you just link them all?

"Sorry i just need too b**** a little seeing how everyone else"

[Anty]

When I play XIV, and either rain begins to fall or dust begins to stir, I notice my FPS drop considerably, close to half of what it was. For this reason, I would really like to see a toggle implemented to allow weather effects to be turned on and off.

improve the engine would be a better way (And as far as i know they are doin it... well they have to to reach more people as well). And giving more meaningful graphic options would do as well. So far we have some options but most don't have a big effect on fps. ONLY when you change the drawing qualitiy... but its not like other games who have less details on textures... so the game can still look good and sharp... in ffxiv you have the option, look good, or look bad as hell and still use a lot of resources...

[Alhanelem]

Optimizing these effects so they require less resources would be far preferable to having to turn them off.

[KeyserSoze]

Spoke with Yoshida about current lack of a weather effect toggle. Currently, there really isn’t any meaning to the weather that occurs randomly within the realm of Eorzea, however, in the future plan on making weather a much more meaningful event and as such do not plan on implementing a toggle.

Thank you for getting a response to my thread, though the response is kind of underwhelming. I like the fact that more things in-game will be tied to elements and weather, but this puts a lot of stress on my PC. I know XI had a lot of things tied into weather, and it had a toggle. I just figured it would be an easy fix for a lot of people to see improved performance on lower-end (hell, mid-grade) PCs, myself included.

(btw, this is the only modern game my PC has any trouble playing at all. This includes Bioshock 2, Crysis 2, The Witcher 2, etc)

[Coldbrand]

Bayohne how about adressing the real problem, will you be fixing the rain falling through the canopy of the tents in encampments when out in the wild?

[RedAffinity]

I don't think they took it as "we want a way to turn weather on and off server-side"
But i think they forgot there's a simple indication that can tell you the current weather about as effectively as seeing the actual effects.

That or there is some kind of actual element they're developing we just don't know of, that we'll need the actual weather for. *shrug*