Upcoming Duty Lockouts

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

You can have it make noise when it's minimized. The default is just not to. It's right there in the system config audio options. If you have the sound off while minimized and a sound cue triggers while it's minimized, that's your fault, not SE's...

I have that setting on, but it's not enough. A lot of times I play with headphones and if I'm just browsing the web, I take off my headphones so I can't hear the sounds. Even when I can hear the sounds, there's a couple of sound effects that sound identical to the duty pop sound, and it plays rather frequently if you're in a crowded area like a city or revenant's toll (I want to say it comes from people crafting, I'm not sure). The other game sounds can also drown out the sound of the duty pop sound. There are also plenty of reasons why you would mute the game sounds while browsing the web, for example watching a youtube video or something on netflix. Basically even with the sound, you won't always notice when the duty pops.

Ideally you'd want something like the client to flash in the taskbar when duty pops, or even force the game window to maximize when duty pops. A lot of windows applications can do this. I'm no programmer, but I would imagine that it's possible for square-enix to do it too.

[Keyin]

A penalty for the constant withdraws/time out is fine if its only for a few minutes(15-30 mins). What i want to know is will the dungeons that lets say lose a tank halfway or at the start, will have higher priority with the in-progress mark over a fresh group. I can tell ya there have been times, where a friend or an fc mate asked me to come in a tank for they're group because a tank left or a dps left and I pretty much reque over and over tell i find the in-progress group that might be them according to how many bosses are dead and not a fresh group every time(this of course going with a direct que for the dungeon they are in). So as long as they make it where the groups that are already in a dungeon have higher priority over fresh groups, i have no issues with them putting a penalty in for the CT/ST trolls that que and withdraw constantly.