Vote for GNB Sounds

[Cetek14]

There's very little incentive to even login anymore. The situation with GNB sucks, yeah, but the game as a whole just has no real appeal. I would do crafting/gathering because I enjoyed it, but they revamped that. Took away all the interesting options and made it way to easy to level anything. I have level 80 in almost every crafter/gatherer now and it only took a fraction of the effort it took in stormblood. I don't see why they even plan on adding a crafting beast tribe at this point.

Everything is too easy, and made so even dummies could figure it out. I hate tanking because it's literally slap the boss once, keep aggro and then just do damage like you're any other DPS. I hate what they did to Astro and it's cards. Why yes, I would love to give everyone a 3% boost to damage regardless of the card I draw.

And while no one will probably agree with me on it... I am kind of pissed off that my sub fees went into funding FF7R. A complete let down of a product. I wish they'd actually give XIV the budget it deserves instead of giving them the bare minimum and expecting a ton of income. Give the dev team the money they need and stop casualizing the experience.

You start to notice bad things when they take away stuff that you like. And problem with GNB sfx is that nobody asked for that quality downgrade. It's almost like Yoshi P noticed that too many people pick GNB compared to other tanks, so he just made it less fun for balance.

[Cetek14]

I don't like lack of activity in this topic. I hope you at least remember about sending weekly in-game suggestion.

[shao32]

we are in a position where the next patch is near so no matter how much we talk about it wont be a change for it right now so the only thing we can do it's wait to know what they are doing with 5.3 and pray for the changes, im in the same position with my delirium rework threat but i hold no hope for it, one we know the info this will heat up again, same with other issues.

I personaly was waiting for 5.3 patch info to coment here again, without Valic somebody have to keep this thread up for adressing, let's pray soken and his team did it specially with the extra time they could enjoy with the delay.

[Valic]

I've been unsubbed for about 2 months because it just seems like they've stopped caring about their current playerbase.... I've come back and it still feels.... "stale". Not just the fact they have yet to respond to the GNB SFX (which btw, I love how they don't even mention how they had to change it on the fly for whatever reason in that audio breakdown video they released on youtube), but also the fact there just.... isn't much going on. 1 dungeon a patch, the above poster mentions something I also feel is an issue that made me stop playing DRK...... Idk, I would think their moderators would at least look at this thread a few times and bring it up to the developers at some point with "hey, you guys remember how there was a thread of maybe 4 people whining about the sounds? Well now we have a thread that is 45 pages long about how awful the change is....". Meh...

I don't like lack of activity in this topic. I hope you at least remember about sending weekly in-game suggestion.

I gotta give you credit for holding your stance as firmly as you have. Proud to see that fire still there. Me, I'm totally not using any replacement sounds and dealing with... That said, the current sounds are still garbo and still need to be remedied somehow.

[samuraipew7]

I'm still here also, still passionate about them being changed. And I have been sending feedback in game too. I was holding out for 5.3 like Shao, to see if anything gets changed. Still sad this thread has reached this size and still nothing, not a peep from SE. It's been a year almost since they up and changed them so more than ample "try and get used to time" but nope they still sound and feel horrible, which is a shame because I love Gunbreaker otherwise. Just the sounds hold me back on enjoying playing it a lot.

[Noctisnine]

Yeah it's very sad that no matter how much we try we get no answer from SE. Even though they are a great company, sometimes they commit bad decisions like letting these sounds linger. Gnb with the current sounds is just hard to play and feel satisfied. It's very boring and non impactful.

[Seraphor]

Didn't they originally change the sounds because of player feedback?

I honestly don't have a problem with them, and I'm sorry for you if they really bother you that much, but presumably more people disliked the original sounds than dislike the current sounds?
They can't just keep yo-yoing back and fourth based on who shouts loudest.

[Gula]

Didn't they originally change the sounds because of player feedback?

I honestly don't have a problem with them, and I'm sorry for you if they really bother you that much, but presumably more people disliked the original sounds than dislike the current sounds?
They can't just keep yo-yoing back and fourth based on who shouts loudest.

I like it as is and didn't like the old sounds. I think it's honestly unreasonable for people to want a toggle, because not only does it look like bizarro design, what about other jobs? Why does GNB get an option only? (that will go on the sound menu??)

Heck. If we're talking special treatment, I want SAMs only muted entirely, Holy given another sfx for spam and DNC changed to wind sounds so parties with more than my own wont be [rattling] CHING CHANG CHONG FWOOSH

[ReiMakoto]

Didn't they originally change the sounds because of player feedback?

I honestly don't have a problem with them, and I'm sorry for you if they really bother you that much, but presumably more people disliked the original sounds than dislike the current sounds?
They can't just keep yo-yoing back and fourth based on who shouts loudest.

There was a very small thread when shadowbringers first came out, the backlash to the change was multiple times larger than the number of people who were complaining about the original sounds on both the JP and the EN side. This just a case of SE jumping the gun on feedback and being too stubborn to change back.

[Kabooa]

Didn't they originally change the sounds because of player feedback?

I honestly don't have a problem with them, and I'm sorry for you if they really bother you that much, but presumably more people disliked the original sounds than dislike the current sounds?
They can't just keep yo-yoing back and fourth based on who shouts loudest.

The biggest flaw is we don't actually know why it changed.

The original thread was like 13 posts long between seven people on the English forums, presumably something similar on the Japanese forums, and the exact content was just that the bang needed more buck.

Given how many little threads exist and how often they're ignored, it seems unlikely that it was the catalyst for change. All we can do is speculate, as they haven't said much on the matter.

That said, there are options for one to take who have sensitive enough hearing to pick them out in the cacophony of normal gameplay.