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

[Niwashi]

The game already has a temporary buyback option if you accidentally sell the wrong item to a vendor. (The only issue there is that you have to realize that you did so pretty quickly, since it only lasts until you leave the zone.)

It certainly seems like these sort of items bought with other currencies or trades are just as worthy of such a temporary undo option on purchase, and for the same reasons.



Another minor thing that might help at least sometimes is a slight adjustment to the warning message:
As people have mentioned, that warning that you can't equip an item doesn't help if you're buying it in advance of reaching the right level and therefore expect to not be able to equip it. To help with that, perhaps there need to be two differently worded warnings: one that you get if your current job can never equip that item, and a different warning if it's for your current job, but it's only due to your level that you cannot equip it.

Then you'd just need to be on the job you're buying for and a wrong selection would say so in that warning. If you were expecting "You'll need to reach level X before you can equip this. Proceed with the purchase now?" and instead saw "Your current job cannot equip this item. Do you really want to purchase it?", that might raise a red flag when you need it to.

[JunseiKei]

When people start bringing up different games having different systems, I really have to hold up my hand for stop. FFXIV: ARR onwards is made from the ashes of the jumbled mess that was FFXIV. We don't know just how much of the jumbled mess still exists. Only the FFXIV team does. Given the time they had to work with to get out what they could for ARR, there's still probably plenty (even if every patch had some sort of fix to those past mistakes). When they say server limitations, I literally hear "we have to go back and see what core problems still exist and see if we can implement it safely without something else breaking." A lot of these other games that have these systems weren't put in post launch. WoW is possibly the only exception, but it also wasn't built on the ashes of a game that was systematically a mess.

My suggestion is, while we can ask for a player error check, simply take your time and read when buying gear. Especially if it's behind weekly lock-outs.

[Elamys]

Quit the condescending act, you are no better than the people against it.

No. I'm not the one making fun of the OP for something they literally physically struggle with. I'm not the one who acts like including a very simple buyback/reclaim system would somehow ruin the game.

I have extremely poor eyesight too, though not dyslexia. I do what I can. But there are things that ARE very hard to read in the game. What on earth is lost by making things easier to read? What negative impact is there to having a reclaim system similar to WoW? "Well it lets people be lazy" or whatever - fine, but this is an online video game, there's not some big moral battle to be waged here. If you really want to debate that, go to the comment thread on an article about millennials, you'll find plenty of like-minded people there.

[Enla]

When people start bringing up different games having different systems, I really have to hold up my hand for stop. FFXIV: ARR onwards is made from the ashes of the jumbled mess that was FFXIV. We don't know just how much of the jumbled mess still exists. Only the FFXIV team does. Given the time they had to work with to get out what they could for ARR, there's still probably plenty (even if every patch had some sort of fix to those past mistakes). When they say server limitations, I literally hear "we have to go back and see what core problems still exist and see if we can implement it safely without something else breaking." A lot of these other games that have these systems weren't put in post launch. WoW is possibly the only exception, but it also wasn't built on the ashes of a game that was systematically a mess.

My suggestion is, while we can ask for a player error check, simply take your time and read when buying gear. Especially if it's behind weekly lock-outs.

This. There is a good bit of the 1.0 source code left in the game because the /entirety/ of ARR was built off of it's desiccated corpse in order to relaunch within a certain time line. This is the reason why so many simple additions for other games are near impossible to implement here, such as increased bag sizes and a PROPER glamour library system that doesn't require the items to be in your bag. So while the idea is admirable, know that it wouldn't be easy to implement in the slightest because of the folly the developers made in keeping the original 1.0 source code.

[Dualgunner]

This. There is a good bit of the 1.0 source code left in the game because the /entirety/ of ARR was built off of it's desiccated corpse in order to relaunch within a certain time line. This is the reason why so many simple additions for other games are near impossible to implement here, such as increased bag sizes and a PROPER glamour library system that doesn't require the items to be in your bag. So while the idea is admirable, know that it wouldn't be easy to implement in the slightest because of the folly the developers made in keeping the original 1.0 source code.

I yearn for the day we're free of 1.x's code. I dunno if that day will ever come or the difficulty in making that happen but I yearn for it all the same.

[Rufalus]

I agree on Quickarm and Quicktongue. They could just turn both of those into a single kind of speed materia that works on any job. After that, just need to do something about elemental materia to reduce bloat and bad options, with the goal of nothing being useless.

[TouchandFeel]

I think the main problem of this whole topic is people are literally belittling the OP for her disorder.

Nobody should be disparaged for a disability, plain and simple.

In this case though I feel that part of the problem in providing a solution to the problem, at least on my part, is a proper diagnosis of the problem itself.

The OP declared that their problem is caused by dyslexia, however based on what I know of dyslexia, the description of the circumstances outlined by the OP and the lack of common dyslexic errors in their typed responses, I am not certain that dyslexia is actually the root of the issue.

As I stated in an earlier post, it really seems like it might be an eyesight problem resulting in the OP having difficulty reading the text because it is too small for them. This is a completely different problem to tackle than dyslexia.

Then again, it may be dyslexia or it could just very well be a lack of patience or paying attention.
It's very hard to pin down what exactly is going on because I feel the OP is being very emotionally reactionary in their posts and descriptions instead of being measured, clear and concise with the problem and it's symptoms.

[ErryK]

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I am asking you to lose the condescending act because it makes you just as bad as the people making fun of OP. Be the better person and ignore them, your post is just a validation of their inten000t. You're better off reporting them. Anyways, as far as my opinion on this thread goes, I replied here. I am not bothered whether it is added or changed, all it means is I'll have to adjust, which is what I have been doing every expansion and patch, so what do I have to lose? Nothing.

[Jeycht]

Well, tbh I don't really see the problem.
Like others have say you have a message telling you it's not for your job. And for materias they have colors depending the type of materia.
It's not a problem in french, the word for quicktongue and quickarms are different. But yet I fail to understand how you can be wrong (except the quick first part) you can still read the tooltip. And at worst there is an order (on mb).
btw I'm not against a refund system if you haven't use the item yet (bond)
I have done a mistake once, that was for my job but wrong accessory (silly me being to fast), haven't complain about it nor ask to change it to gm.

[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?