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[GreyJorildyn]

I'd rather have like a screen announcement than a call.

[elreed]

I'd rather have like a screen announcement than a call.

What if that guy/gal is watching tv and not paying attention at all to the screen? we need sound calls, or if they went somewhere else they can hear the call and then come back and see whats up

[GreyJorildyn]

What if that guy/gal is watching tv and not paying attention at all to the screen? we need sound calls, or if they went somewhere else they can hear the call and then come back and see whats up

I know that is may be difficult to understand this if someone has only played FFXI, but other mmos logs you out after you're afk for awhile. They set you as 'away' after like 5minutes of no activity and log you out after like 15mins. If you try to send someone a message after you away gets put up, it tells that to the person who sent you the message.

FF online games are notorious for people standing around AFK. It isn't like this in other games which log you out after X time idle. FFXIV is moving towards a more modern game environment and I would hope that a loud whistle isn't part of that movement. When you are playing a game, you should be paying attention 99% of the time, making stuff like calls pretty worthless.

Just my input.

[TwinMoon]

I know that is may be difficult to understand this if someone has only played FFXI, but other mmos logs you out after you're afk for awhile. They set you as 'away' after like 5minutes of no activity and log you out after like 15mins. If you try to send someone a message after you away gets put up, it tells that to the person who sent you the message.

FF online games are notorious for people standing around AFK. It isn't like this in other games which log you out after X time idle. FFXIV is moving towards a more modern game environment and I would hope that a loud whistle isn't part of that movement. When you are playing a game, you should be paying attention 99% of the time, making stuff like calls pretty worthless.

Just my input.

I must respectfully disagree. In World of Warcraft, the raid warning was both audio and visual. Some very good ideas have been put forward about allowing people to control how loud calls are or if they even hear them at all. It would be interesting if it could be tied to vibration on controllers as well.

I do my best to pay attention, but a lot happens in the harder fights. Having multiple calls to choose from is about more than just calling people back from afk. Parties could associate a specific sound with a particular warning and take action appropriately without needing to read the log to get the details.

There was a fun side to it for some people. Some of the sounds in XI were too silly or quiet to use it battle, but people used them any way. With only people in a party being able to hear the call.

Another reference to Warcraft, one of the more popular add-ons, Deadly Boss Mods, made frequent use of warnings.

There is more than one way to use Call. For the people that don't like them, don't use them/ enable them.

[elreed]

wait for 2.0, this was a very good tool to call the afk ppls....

[Rukkirii]

The dev. team will look into whether or not call sounds can be implemented in 2.0.

[BlackomegaKingofwaffles]

The dev. team will look into whether or not call sounds can be implemented in 2.0.

I'm preparing myself for "PS3 limitations"

[Elexia]

I'm preparing myself for "PS3 limitations"

It wouldn't be a PS3 limitation and you know it. Funnily enough, it could be a simple case of whether or not the chat system used supports it. A lot of MMOs don't have audio capabilities with their chatlog system, so it wouldn't be due to a "limitation."

[Pofo]

It wouldn't be a PS3 limitation and you know it. Funnily enough, it could be a simple case of whether or not the chat system used supports it. A lot of MMOs don't have audio capabilities with their chatlog system, so it wouldn't be due to a "limitation."

I'm pretty sure our chat system has those capabilities though. If they can add a chyme that plays whenever we receive a /tell, I don't see why they can't add a sound effect triggered by a certain text command. My only hope is that if they do add <call>, which I am very much in favor of, is that they add some sort of timer on it so people can't spam it as they did in XI. Maybe once a <call> has been used in party chat, you must wait 30 seconds before a party member can do it again, or something to that effect.

[Fear]

I'm preparing myself for "PS3 limitations"

If the PS2 could do it on FFXI I see no reason that FFXIV and the PS3 couldn't.