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

[Lilseph]

For the MSQ and Dungeon related prompts, I'm pretty sure those act as triggers. Points of no return, or to denote a cutscene. Most likely to prevent accidentally being forced into something and catching new players unaware. So those ones are understandable to keep. Having a prompt to enter places like the Waking Sands/Rising Stones are similar in this regard. Those specific areas also have their own instances (which is why you'll never see any other player in there), so the prompt is acting like a Duty Finder queue to toss you in there.

For Estates, it's most likely to prevent players from being stuck in a loop of going in and out for interactable objects. If a retainer was near the front outside door or if the repair NPC was placed next to the inside entrance, accidentally clicking the door that has no prompts means you'll have to go through an additional two loading screens if you made a mistake as opposed to just not. Same thing with the whole Aesthetician bell thing. This is especially true for players who play with controller where tilting your camera the wrong way can make you target something else entirely.

Most of the other item and currency related prompts are there to literally prevent you from losing an item or making an accidental purchase. The Materia Extraction prompt is there to remind the player that they are attempting an extraction. With there being two different options to destroy the item, having that prompt show up is just to reassure the player (especially those still learning or are new to the game).

The aetheryte tickets.. well there's not much to say about that. Literally just cancel the prompt by selecting the default "no" or Esc to initiate the teleport instantly. If your top priority is to get to a place as soon as possible, then there shouldn't be an issue dropping at most ~1k gil if you're in that much of a hurry.

There are a handful of prompts they could remove, don't get me wrong. But honestly, it genuinely only takes like a few seconds to confirm/cancel the prompt. Even switching the default to "Yes" is just going to cause more issues (means every single prompt will default to "yes" including discard and desynth)—and we all know about that once-in-a-long-time item restoration service they have.

[Underscore]

I just went to spend my old EX totems on some items to desynth. For each item, I had to click 7 times to purchase it and a further 4 times to desynth it.

For that reason, I knowingly necro this five year old thread. It's still very relevant today.

[Gwenkatsu]

I think for actions with major implications a confirmation window is definitely useful. Like when you take an elevator to another floor. /s

[Gurgeh]

I'm confident there is already an add-on for most of these problems. So it's not important to 70% of players. So it's not worth them fixing it.
I'm even more confident, that if there aren't such add-ons, there soon will be.

[Mawlzy]

The number of clicks required to complete two retainers ventures and send them out again is quite spectacular.

[Gurgeh]

The number of clicks required to complete two retainers ventures and send them out again is quite spectacular.

I've heard for a fact this is something that add-ons improve.
Certainly if your trying to use retainers while using crafting windows.
Which is always.

The questions I have for the UI person:

"Why haven't you got your shit together and given us speech bubbles still or *who else is to blame*?"

"Why did you tell Yoshi inventory ticks couldn't be done? *or who did tell him that*?"

"Just what is your team doing with their time or is it literally JUST you for one THE biggest global MMOs? Because nothing new has appeared that needs UI except variant, island, and now cosmic. The UI improvements are a pitiful fraction of those that add-on users enjoy. Especially when it comes to crafting."

How involved in the new blocklist were you?
If you were involved in blacklists, what support were you given for this profoundly NON-UI matter, and who signed that off?

[BunnyBrat]

I need them. I often click on things mindlessly and the pop up keeps me from making mistakes.

[LilithGardenia]

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.”

I agree.Give us the option so I can select what I want that to be removed from like extract materia or desynth

[Rinoa_353]

Can they also remove the confirmation for using teleport tickets? That's one of the most annoying ones imo.

[Supersnow845]

Can they also remove the confirmation for using teleport tickets? That's one of the most annoying ones imo.

That one actually does an option in settings

You can select a range of prices for when you want to use tickets and turn on an off confirmation for it

Like I have it set to “above 700 Gil use teleport ticket always, don’t ask me to use it, if below 700 never use ticket, also don’t ask me”