Alt + Tab yes please :D

[Ventus]

i dont know if anyone has said this yet, but if you run the game through Steam, it runs at full screen resolution and you can shift+tab to open their web browser, and ffxiv doesn't crash. Although, I agree 100% that they need to fix this and add an alt tab, this is a semi good work around in the meantime.

I do that too but you can't have internet favorites. I know that's a small thing to complain about, but in general 90% of MMOs I've been able to alt + tab out of (ff11 is exception) and steam web browser is awful so SE should fix the game accordingly =/.

[Munba]

i dunno about the rest of you playing xiv but I sure would like to be able to Alt + Tab to the desktop with the game crashing.

Absolutely.

[LanikMueller]

Yet another small but very annoying issue. Until or unless this is ever corrected I must admit that the shift window works well. Gamers window relocater however refused to work for me. Some one mentioned just using your old pc, well I did for awhile until the old motherboard died of exhaustion (Anyone have a spare micro-atx socket775 mobo?). I had 2 of them both setup right here on my desk and this process worked well enough. Tho it does get annoying having 2 keyboards and 2 mice etc on your desk, and I have a L shaped desk with lots of space. Normal people likely only have room enough for 1 PC on their desk/table/milk crate.

[Exevier]

Pretty hardcore necro.

I believe Yoshi-P said there are long-term plans to fix this, but they have to do all the server/client fixes and reworking first. Until then, just use a temp fix like ShiftWindow. That's what I'm using right now, and it does its job just fine.

[Khalus]

I've been posting this in multiple threads all over these forums for the past few weeks. Everyone that wants to Alt+Tab, just use this Borderless Windowed Script. Its works amazingly well, and if SE has a problem with it, they can't do anything to stop us from using it, besides actually giving us an Alt+Tab feature. I mean really its pretty damned clear that if SE wanted us to be able to alt+tab it would have been already available, and not another promised feature in the "broken record" future!

It took SE what 6-7 years before they added a very piss-poor windowed mode to XI, that as far I know most don't even use cause Windower has always been far better. Its seriously ridiculous for SE to keep treating what few potential paying customers they have remaining, with so must angst. Yeah I get that XI had a horrible problem with botters and the economy was in bad shape for a few years, and that supposedly the non alt+tabbing was a means to prevent that, but it never worked there. For fracks sake though, XIV is barely worth playing, and gil is very easy to acquire, so I doubt there are tons of gil farmers and if there are...it must really suck to be them.

SE, stop treating us so poorly and give us these simple yet necessary features that every other damned MMO has, you'll never stop the botters and hackers, but you are severely pissing off your loyal/legit players with this crap!

[Micrll]

I've been posting this in multiple threads all over these forums for the past few weeks. Everyone that wants to Alt+Tab, just use this Borderless Windowed Script. Its works amazingly well, and if SE has a problem with it, they can't do anything to stop us from using it, besides actually giving us an Alt+Tab feature. I mean really its pretty damned clear that if SE wanted us to be able to alt+tab it would have been already available, and not another promised feature in the "broken record" future!

It took SE what 6-7 years before they added a very piss-poor windowed mode to XI, that as far I know most don't even use cause Windower has always been far better. Its seriously ridiculous for SE to keep treating what few potential paying customers they have remaining, with so must angst. Yeah I get that XI had a horrible problem with botters and the economy was in bad shape for a few years, and that supposedly the non alt+tabbing was a means to prevent that, but it never worked there. For fracks sake though, XIV is barely worth playing, and gil is very easy to acquire, so I doubt there are tons of gil farmers and if there are...it must really suck to be them.

SE, stop treating us so poorly and give us these simple yet necessary features that every other damned MMO has, you'll never stop the botters and hackers, but you are severely pissing off your loyal/legit players with this crap!

Borderless Window != Full Screen
Obviously you are over looking a already many times explained reason for alt-tab if you run crossfire you ONLY get the second card to assist if its in a real full screen not this pseudo windowless junk.

^end direct reply to Khalus stuff below is general ranting as usual about this.

I'm sorry I refuse and will always refuse to accept this as standard, its a bug. It gives you a generic direct x error, therfore its a bug. If it was by intent they would put a custom error box that said something along the lines of it "not being allowed". They are simply not handling correctly the direct x situation of lost focus correctly, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.85).aspx
Its part of something that you need to handle with Direct X 9 and below. Direct X 10 and 11 will do it for you.

As for stopping bots or other such excuse, that's still a useless argument alt-tab out of full screen gives you nothing more then what you couldn't already do.

I still blame incompetence at this point.

[argwings]

At the very least, allow me set a windowed resolution smaller than the current minimal resolution so that part of the screen isn't being cut off.

[Mikko]

Just run Apple products in the background, or McAfee, it will shut down automatically several times a week... ><;