How do you subsist?

[Daniolaut]

I've 100% tuned all this information out, other than the retainers returning from their ventures, which even sometimes I tune out and ignore.

Ok, you didnt say how you tune it out, and you didnt say why you think its absolutely necessary or why its sensible that an option to turn it off hasnt been added in over 7 years.


1.) How do you deal with this part of the User Interface?

2.) Why do you think it is absolutely necessary to be informed, in the middle of the screen where you are, when your retainers have returned, and every other redundant thing that gets placed directly in the middle of the screen?

3.) Why do you think having the option to turn this off would absolutely ruin the game and its 100% sensible, that Square-Enix has refused to add this option 7+ years into the games life.

4.) How does this constant flood of useless information not irritate you?

5.) Do you enjoy the sound of a fly constantly buzzing in your ear?

Its literally in the original post.

[Bopsheezi]

I never said I was against an option to turn it off, I understand some people would like to turn this off and not receive the redundant information.

Also, I tune it out by just ignoring it. Most of the time I don't even realize I'm being fed this mundane stuff. It's like breathing, you don't realize you're doing it until some tells you that you're breathing.

[Penthea]

You used the word "often"

The information you are given on any normal gameplay day is in fact pointless and or redundant. Each time you teleport or change zones it tells you were you are. (Pointless and redundant for anyone who teleports using the teleport menu and clicks the location they want to go to.) ... in which it is absolutely impossible to teleport without using the teleport menu, and when you click the location, it asks you to confirm your location you are teleporting to.....

I used the word "often" because the truth is what may be redundant information to you is useful information for another person. A lot of what you claim is redundant are things that I find useful to have notifications for. But I'm not so arrogant as to claim that my personal taste and needs as a player are indicative of the value of all information in the game for everyone else.

I agree we should have the option to alter how this information is presented to us, but I strongly disagree with your attitude that it's shocking that someone else may not feel the same as you do about certain information and how it should be displayed.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

They should be movable just as the rest, or most of the UI is.
But then again SE is famous for convoluted and redundant designs, just check the process of even getting an account started.

[Luna-M]

Don't bother me at all. Feels pretty nitpicky to complain on such a minor thing.

[Ayuhra]

This is the sort of thing I mean when I say I sometimes wish an entire patch cycle could be devoted to streamlining everything.

-consolidating button presses in rotations (not limiting abilities, just having certain abilities share buttons in some cases)
-limiting the huge number of menus
-limiting how many clicks it takes it interact with the menus we do have
-eliminating certain pop ups or turning them into "raid alert" type pop ups that do not have to be dismissed and disappear in a second or two.

[linayar]

an entire patch cycle could be devoted to streamlining everything.

-consolidating button presses in rotations (not limiting abilities, just having certain abilities share buttons in some cases)
-limiting the huge number of menus
-limiting how many clicks it takes it interact with the menus we do have
-eliminating certain pop ups or turning them into "raid alert" type pop ups that do not have to be dismissed and disappear in a second or two.

Considering it's a nonissue to some (many?) people, myself included, I don't want an entire patch cycle to be devoted to that.

It's fine by me if they think some of it could be streamlined without information being lost, but that's more of a side endeavor, not a top priority.

[Neri]

It's annoying sometimes when there's more information queuing up though. Like when someone do /readycheck then use /countdown before the ready check windows is completed. It messed up the countdown noise, and visual.

[Reap00]

I agree with you 100% OP. I have been playing since launch and I to would like an option to turn these annoying messages off. Don't expect the majority of people on the forum to agree with you but getting the message to SE is a good thing. Thank you.

[Arrhin]

I don't mind some of the stylized location notifications, such as when you 'port into a new location, but I can see how some might. As for the rest it really breaks immersion. I've learned to tune the majority out but I do like some of the changes proposed. Gods, even if they moved all/most of it to the chat log. I mean I NEED some of those notifications, just not in my face, during a CS <.<