Alt + Tab yes please :D

[Mikko]

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

[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 =/.

[Alhanelem]

Just play the game in windowed mode at your preferred resolution. Besides the window bar at the top, it's identical to the full screen setting.

There should be an option to play with a borderless window, so you get full screen, alt tab sitll works, and doesn't take forever for the directX mode hand-off like with a true fullscreen application.

[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.