You can disable the "ambient" sound...
You can disable the "ambient" sound...
I have to admit, I would probably turn off the crowd chatter sometimes as well. Not like having the option to disable it would hurt anybody who doesn't want to. The ambient noise in this game is done really well so it would be nice to turn off crowd chatter without disrupting every other noise.
The ambient crowd loop can stay. Just remove the emote noises injected into it.
HAHAHAHAHA
WHOA!
I keep ambient noises off because I dislike the crowd chatter, but I do miss the nature sounds. +1 vote to the ability to disable it or give it its own volume slider; I'd prefer rain to not be drowned out by crowd noises.
+1 to the idea of muting just the crowd chatter. It was cool at first that it happened when a large crowd gathered, but it's so repetitive that it's started to get to me. And that one laugh... over and over... and over... and over...
(The links below are sadly outdated. I hope to get around to updating things at some point.)
Desynthesis Guide: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivdesynth
Airship Guide: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivairshipguide (\v/) Airship Quick Reference: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivairshipqr
Airship Logsheet: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivairshiplog (/|\) Airship Builder Tool: http://tinyurl.com/ffxivairshipbuilder
I love the crowd chatter, though... it really adds to the world.
I -especially- like it when people gather outside cities and the chatter starts, haha.
Like for example Revenant's Toll is crowded enough as it is; I usually just pop in and pop out as quick as possible... there's plenty of other places that are quiet (and less actually crowded... thanks, crappy laptop, for the lag) where I can do whatever I need to do.
They shouldj ust add the couds to its own category, if if they need the spare UI space, move it to "voices". ...seeing as a lot of the discernable crowd sounds are emote noices, it'd make sense to include them there as such. ...but such a thing would likely require rediting the sounds in the game to do as much. And make every player redownload them with a patch.
I'd love to see SE rank this high enough to do. ...because I'm one of those people who loves the ambient sounds as well, but turns it off in the over-populated cities because it blows my ears out.
If i have sound on, I usually just have ambient noise on, I find it relaxing...
However the crowd chatter emotes have some... interesting sounds. Like moans. And I actually feel a bit strange if I am playing around others and suddenly there is a really loud female lala moaning coming from my speakers >_> So I turn it off.
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