SE: Can you please do something about these confangled confirmation windows?

[DoH]

Let’s be real: FFXIV has way too many confirmation windows in places that absolutely do not need them. To make matters worse, the default option for most of these windows is annoyingly set to “No” instead of “Yes,” so you can’t just keep pressing whatever hotkey you have set as Confirm – instead, you have to move the cursor over to “Yes” and select it each and every time. Here is a screenshot of what I consider to be some of the most egregious offenders:



As I'm sure you're aware, there are many places where the only reason you would ever be at the door is to enter/leave that instance. The Waking Sands, the Rising Stones, and houses are some of the best examples. Why else would I be down in the basement of that building in Western Thanalan other than to visit the Waking Sands, for example? Yet, for some inexplicable reason, the game assumes that even though I walked all the way out there, selected the door, and pressed the Confirm button once, it still needs to ask me if I want to enter. On top of that, it assumes that I do not want to enter. You can go from zone to zone normally just by walking up to the dotted line – why do we have all of these extra steps for buildings?

Another annoying one is extracting materia. This no longer destroys your gear, and having it spiritbonded literally provides no advantage, so why does it need to ask you whether you (and assume that you do not) want to extract materia?

The same thing goes for repairing – if I’ve opened up the repair window, I probably want to repair my gear. Why ask me again or assume that I do not want to repair it?

The mini-cactpot? Same thing. It takes all of 10 seconds to play and you’re guaranteed to come out with more MGP than you went in with. Why do you need to ask me this and assume I don’t want to play?

Aetheryte tickets too. I almost hate using them because it slows the process down. When you’re doing hunt trains during really busy times, this can make the difference between getting into a congested zone and being locked out until after one of the hunt monsters is already dead.

It would be really nice if SE could either do away with these confirmation windows or, at the very least, make the default option “Yes” instead of “No.”

[DrWho2010]

you should ask this in the Q&A thread for the upcoming live letter as they're going to be talking to the UI guy.

[Bsrking5]

The glamour dresser as well for at least putting things in.

[Tint]

Yes there really doesn't have to be a conformation window when I want to enter a private or FC house. You already have to be in close range to the entrance, so you can't missclick it from far away. And even when you missclick it, all what is lost are a few seconds for the loading screen. There is more time lost for all the confirmation windows every time I actually want to enter >.>

[ElHeggunte]

You’re all severely underestimating people’s ability to destroy or purchase or enter the wrong thing even with confirmations.

[Bsrking5]

You’re all severely underestimating people’s ability to destroy or purchase or enter the wrong thing even with confirmations.

Ya but nothing is purchased or destroyed in any of these

[Darsien]

I'd settle for the default option being "Yes" so I can mash a button through.

[AnotherPerson]

The choices are set to no probably because they are there to prevent you from accidentally misclicking something by accidentally mashing the interaction key or choosing the wrong option for what you want to do when you're going through the choices quickly. Having the added layer to confirm you want to do something is something to prevent a player from accidentally making a choice they didn't want to unless they specifically went out of their way to do it. It's a guaranteed failsafe to put it simply.

If said player doesn't have access to a Hunt Linkshell for whatever reason (never encountered or wasn't invited) or can't participate in hunt trains for whatever reason (time, location of the train, etc.), people start to treasure their aetheryte tickets more frequently. Having it set to no also prevents people from accidentally using their aetheryte ticket when their teleport point costs 70 - 200 gil rather than using it on something like 500 - 999 gil. I'm not sure if the bug for the aetheryte ticket still exists where you can consume one, then interrupt your teleport and the next teleport still eats your ticket even though you didn't use the ticket, but it's still a lot of potential gil per ticket wasted if you think about it.

This also applies to repairing. People would keep all sorts of gear in their inventory depending on how they level up their jobs. Some jobs might be high level, while others are low level, so the dark matter being consumed is different. There are incidents where people would want to repair lower level gear with lower level dark matter but didn't realize they ran out of that lower level dark matter and was using up their Grade 7 Dark Matter. For the most part of the the game's development, stuff like this doesn't matter to us once we play long enough because we have the funding for it but if you think about how much money people actually waste only using Grade 7 Dark Matter to repair for a full set of lower level gear that only needs say grade 2-3, that cost stacks up over time. You're could technically be wasting more money on repairs.

For the housing, I assume that's because those are special instances. Every one of those places - from the waking sands - to your own FC is set up to be a specialized instance space (the FC house in particular because it's technically a temporary location that could be lost) so I assume there would be a confirmation to check if you want to enter an instance. Besides the FC house, there are certain MSQ that turns those places into a particular cutscene so I would assume that is why those places have a confirmation to ask before proceeding in.

[Bsrking5]

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I don't buy anything but 6 and 7s. I wouldn't buy 6s if they weren't a crafting mat. Yes I do have everything maxed but even before that I still did the same thing and had enough Gil to buy a large FC house,a medium player house, an apartment and a FC room. So clearly that wasnt that big of a deal.
Teleports are Gil sinks and aether tickets are a counter to them. It should be easier to waste them rather than be an inconvenience.
As for MSQ reason, they still could ask like they inform players of long cutscenes while the rest of the time be defaulted to yes instead of no.

[Deceptus]

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