The world feels so different when you turn off display names!

[Kule]

When I run around on my chocobo I turn off the hud.. game feels way more imersive without the UI. Kinda wish a mmo would figure out a way to make good game play with a reduced UI.

[Sylve]

When I run around on my chocobo I turn off the hud.. game feels way more imersive without the UI. Kinda wish a mmo would figure out a way to make good game play with a reduced UI.

They should just figure out how to make use of multiple screens, and let those of us who can, slide all our UI elements to one side so the game screen is 100% visible.

[ninthfantasy]

I have all display names of party members shortened down to initials (for T5 reasons, I'm stupid and can't see symbols above heads) and I have been thinking about doing so with all other players as well. It is kind of refreshing not having such a crowded screen.

[Arkghyom]

It's so pretty!

[Raikki]

Adding to this, I've started using a macro that hides most of my UI but leaves the essential stuff up like chat. I also have it hide all my hotbars and then show a normally-hidden bar (set to minimum scale size) that only contains 1 button which executes the inverse macro that displays everything again. If anyone wants to try it, the relevant text commands are: /hud [element] [on/off] and /hotbar display [number] [on/off]. Here's the list of HUD element names from the play guide:

Target Bar (TargetBar,tbar), Focus Target Bar (FocusTarget,ftarget)
Party List (PartyList,plist), Enemy List (EnemyList,elist)
Parameter Bar (ParamBar,param), Minimap (Minimap,mmap)
Main Menu (MainMenu,mmenu), Server Info (ServerInfo,server)
Gil (Gil,gil), Inventory Grid (InventoryGrid,igrid)
Duty List (DutyList,dlist), Item Help (ItemHelp,ihelp)
Action Help (ActionHelp,ahelp), LimitGauge (LimitGauge,lgauge)
Experience Bar (ExpBar,ebar), Status Effects (StatusEffects,sfx)

[Linadae]

I leave the npc names on just so I know who to talk to but I ended up having to remove player names. Too many miss clicks in the big fates and things got really jumbled in the popular areas. I do miss being able to emote at people though.

[Rufalus]

Turning off names was one of the first things I did in the game, I don't want a screen full of text. In adddition to removing UI elements you can also resize them in the hud settings, cycling between four different sizes. You can make things very small. But only with the UI off entirely can you see the true beauty of the game.