FFXIV is not Dyslexia friendly, can we at least get off "One exchange per lifetime"

[Snow_Princess]

This is not funny, not only is the names too alike, and they use the same ***** ICON! I simply suggest do what wow did and it will help with the item problem abit. Just have the stat be called "haste" and drop needing skill speed and spell speed. At the very least change the icons, and there is too much copy/paste of icons in general (better visual indicators helps get around needing to recognize names that are too much alike)

Why skill and spell should be one stat:

For the spell speed and skill speed...:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...XG8/edit#gid=0
It is literally the same *** stat, sam skill speed 862, OGCD 2.42, *changes to blm* spell speed 910, OGCD 2.42.. wtf??? just name it haste and get rid of split stats if you are not going to have them actually act as split stats. So combining them would have no change in game play whatsoever except RDM.

Then there is this:

I was buying that caster ring for BLM when I mistakenly hit the healing brace when I wanted the healing ring for my healer as well. The names are too much alike. When I contacted a gm, they will not exchange it because something I did in HW.

1. Get off the one time per lifetime item fix per account, there is no reason to be that strict in this game. 1. No gear is that valuable to warrant that, 2. it is too easy to make mistakes with how names of gear and vendors are set up, it is too easy to click on something you do not want.

In wow it gives you a 2 hour time span when stuff like this happens to exchange it back. The thing in HW would of saved me from the same headache, and this happened to me before in 2.0 as well, but I did not use the 1 trade per lifetime thing because it was not worth something like that for that item. I am really sick of trying to read names under a microscope, take a lot of time doing so, and still get it wrong with heavy penalties. I actually did meld skill speed in my blm once because of this issue and had to go remove it at bonefire place thing.

I wrote ingame suggestions before on this issue and back then when the 2.0 situation happened. Back then, I could not find someone to post for me. Now that it has happened again on another time gate item, it reminded me of this problem.

Long posts that explain this better and what happened (Repeat, the error pop up of unable to equip for current job does not help at all/changed nothing if I spent 5 hours starring at it):
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4370516
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4371015
This is the unwanted item:

wanted to buy:

[Snow_Princess]

Not funny, reported

[Maku]

There is no time constraint behind selecting these items. I don't have dyslexia or poor eye sight but I still check a million times before I make purchases. I agree the names are similar but if you just take your time you won't make mistakes. And even if you do, you just gota farm up the parts again to get the right pieces. And with the way the game works more than likely you will eventually need the healing gear anyway.

It isn't something the development team needs to worry about. And changing the names from the gear set name would make it awkward when trying to figure out if you have a full set or not. Set names are used in most all games so it isn't anything new. Just slow down and check all of the windows tat it pops up yelling at you that you are buying something.

[Claviusnex]

I don't have dyslexia or poor eye sight but I still check a million times before I make purchases. I agree the names are similar but if you just take your time you won't make mistakes. And even if you do, you just gota farm up the parts again to get the right pieces.

Yep. Kick myself in the derriere and start over. While it would be nice to have a sell back period I'd rather SE spend its time on other matters like fixing Summoner and Scholar.

[Shurrikhan]

Yep. Kick myself in the derriere and start over. While it would be nice to have a sell back period I'd rather SE spend its time on other matters like fixing Summoner and Scholar.

Really, though, what would be the disadvantage to a brief sell-back period. It's not exactly code-intensive. Unless there's the occasional worried purchaser who enjoys eyeing the menus with the intensity of a savage raider looking for subtle telegraphs (hyperbole obviously; there are only obvious telegraphs or none at all), what's to lose?

[Claviusnex]

Really, though, what would be the disadvantage to a brief sell-back period. It's not exactly code-intensive. Unless there's the occasional worried purchaser who enjoys eyeing the menus with the intensity of a savage raider looking for subtle telegraphs (hyperbole obviously; there are only obvious telegraphs or none at all), what's to lose?

I never said there was a disadvantage. Given how screwy some of the things are in FFXIV I wouldn't say it would be easy to code and with everything else that needs work I'd rather see effort put into fixing those first. Even if it is something easy and SE decided to implement the function it wouldn't surprise me if they held off till the next xpac. So we would still have a couple of years to live with what we have and for me to kick myself a few more times for not hitting the item box I want with my mouse.

[Shurrikhan]

I never said there was a disadvantage. Given how screwy some of the things are in FFXIV I wouldn't say it would be easy to code and with everything else that needs work I'd rather see effort put into fixing those first. Even if it is something easy and SE decided to implement the function it wouldn't surprise me if they held off till the next xpac.

I guess I just really don't want to continue excusing the lack of staple functionalities that other MMOs have tended to have upon release, as early as 13 years ago, be it buyback, zoneless swimming, quick-travel via map rather than (primarily) a list, right-click functionality (without needing a context menu) on items and inventory, or whatever else. Half the time it feels like there has to be some significant portion of the staff that sit around commenting at every meeting, "but is it reaaaaaallllyyy necessary?" to an extent that likely fills more than half the time any of their vetoed coding additions would have taken. Yes, there's a balance to what ought be developed next, and this tiny change would be only a minor convenience boost, but I'm just so tired of things skipping the obvious or making do with something that would clearly require more work to redo later than to do right in the first place (see PvP glamour).

[Darkobra]

Yep. Kick myself in the derriere and start over. While it would be nice to have a sell back period I'd rather SE spend its time on other matters like fixing Summoner and Scholar.

There's not a guy called Square with a deadline in his office, several empty cups of coffee in a bin next to him. "Square! We need you to fix Summoner NOW!" "But I'm working-" "BY TONIGHT!"

They're a big company. I'm PRETTY sure they have different teams with different specialist areas.

[Penthea]

There is no time constraint behind selecting these items. I don't have dyslexia or poor eye sight but I still check a million times before I make purchases. I agree the names are similar but if you just take your time you won't make mistakes.

Yea I see where OP is coming from but what you say is true. It's not decision making that needs to be done quickly. I also double, triple and quadruple check every time I purchase anything that costs a lot or doesn't cost gil. It wouldn't hurt for SE to make some items have more distinct names and icons, but being very careful and taking your time should be enough to get by. If it isn't for some people then I wonder how they deal with much more serious things like banking and signing official documents.

However it's not funny to mock op for being dyslexic. Jokes about needing to go back to school are in very poor taste. No amount of schooling is going to erase dyslexia. That's like telling a blind person to keep going to the opticians. It's a disability, not laziness or lack of education.

[nty]

It asks you to confirm whether you want to continue with a purchase if you cannot equip the item, that is enough of a warning to make sure you're buying the right thing.

Everybody else manages to buy the right gear, I don't see why you can't?