Can we please have an option to disable the <se.#> effects?

[AskaRay]

Personally I -added- a sound effect to my party chat, because I actually use sound a lot when I'm playing and I found myself missing things in the chatbox (so just think of a ping going off when someone is ALSO spamming their macro). So macro sounds don't bother me, except for the one my friend has made which includes all macro sounds done about five times all at once oh my god-

Anyway. I'm all for options so this would be a good thing to add when people just get fed up, I suppose.

[PantslessPrince]

I just use them when I'm rezzing or when I need a tank to get an add off me...some people do use them too much though..

[Gyson]

The whole point of these sound effects is to grab the attention of party members, preferably at critical moments when their attention is required. Being able to disable the sound would make this particular tool rather ineffective and pointless.

As with any tool the sound effects are only effective when used properly. Rather than adding an option to disable it and ruining the tool for everyone, I would prefer to see something done to encourage players to use the tool properly.

[Alberel]

The whole point of these sound effects is to grab the attention of party members, preferably at critical moments when their attention is required. Being able to disable the sound would make this particular tool rather ineffective and pointless.

As with any tool the sound effects are only effective when used properly. Rather than adding an option to disable it and ruining the tool for everyone, I would prefer to see something done to encourage players to use the tool properly.

^ This. ^

Having an option to disable the sound effects severely harms their usefulness as you won't have any way to know who has them turned on or not and these players may start missing cues from other players.

Some way of restricting players from spamming them needlessly or adding 10 of them to one macro would be a better solution. Having an option to disable them defeats the point of anyone using them.

[siverstorm]

Having an option to disable them defeats the point of anyone using them.

Not everyone needs to hear them to play properly, thus the whole point of it being optional. Pugging coil and not having access to voice chat would probably be the one case where I'd prefer macros for the important abilities. Literally haven't needed any of them otherwise.

[Alberel]

Not everyone needs to hear them to play properly, thus the whole point of it being optional. Pugging coil and not having access to voice chat would probably be the one case where I'd prefer macros for the important abilities. Literally haven't needed any of them otherwise.

In my experience they mostly exist to draw a player's attention to the chat window to ensure they don't miss an important message. This is particularly useful is someone is alt-tabbed as you can use the sound effects to get them to return to the game screen. I also see the sound effects regularly used in pugs for the extreme primals to good effect as well as any other fight that requires a degree of coordination when voice chat software isn't an option. I don't really care if you personally don't feel you need them. If it were an option to disable them we would start seeing people that DO need them turning them off as well and the entire feature would be rendered useless.

We would be much better served trying to find a way to make them less easily spammable, or having a feature to simply mute the sound effect chat commands from a given over-zealous player.

[Cakekizy]

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If people stopped abusing them so much, people wouldn't turn them off and make them useless. But, we all know that would never happen.

[Momita]

The answer you look is No. You can't.

[Theonekitten]

Hi there.

and the DRG who's lying dead on the floor, causing the WHM to raise him with a sound effect macro.

Why you gotta call out the DRG yo?? LOL!

[Seiryuukishi]

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So they already have the fix in place and it has been here for quite some time...