Ready Check~

[Hohenheim]

Please realize that FF14 is doing everything in its power to "make the transition from WoW to FF14 an easy one".

Do not expect any special aspects of the FF community to be permanent after 2.0 hits.

Shout chat will soon look like barrens chat and any annoying feature that can be abused by morons will be.

Well hopefully people don't abuse these systems but sometimes you do run into a jerk who does just ignore them, I for one believe that our community won't start doing those kind of things

[Tricksy]

Well hopefully people don't abuse these systems but sometimes you do run into a jerk who does just ignore them, I for one believe that our community won't start doing those kind of things

It all depends on the mechanics of the game and whether they are a barrier to entry for immature players and whether reputation matters, but with a content finder im not sure reputation is going to matter much.

[Rokien]

I hope they make it where you can be like "DON'T WANT THIS ENABLED PLEASE TURN OFF" because either way, not going to use it. It's a pointless system.

[Hohenheim]

I hope they make it where you can be like "DON'T WANT THIS ENABLED PLEASE TURN OFF" because either way, not going to use it. It's a pointless system.

No one cares rokien :P
But thank you for the input

[Antipika]

I hope they make it where you can be like "DON'T WANT THIS ENABLED PLEASE TURN OFF" because either way, not going to use it. It's a pointless system.

Rather than turning the feature off, what will be removed are players refusing to comply with ready checks in a raid environment Just make a full alliance of players who think like you and don't use the feature! /problem solved

[Andrien]

I hope they make it where you can be like "DON'T WANT THIS ENABLED PLEASE TURN OFF" because either way, not going to use it. It's a pointless system.

[Viritess]

So hitting chat on, space bar / button and send is less annoying then hitting "Confirm" (or clicking) ready for a ready check.

Heaven forbid you should have to respond to a system that leaves the Party leader no doubt as to is and isn't afk.

Most Party leaders have enough on their plate. Theres little reason to have them counting slashes too. If the amount of ready checks someone initates bother you so much, ask them to stop or jump ship...

Personally I would be more then happy to see a ready check. And if folks could look past WOW for a minute before they spit on a useful tool maybe you could see the merit in it.

If you find a "box to click" annoying think of it this way. with a / your hitting a total of 4 keys, with a ready check you get to hit 1.

[Nikita]

So hitting chat on, space bar / button and send is less annoying then hitting "Confirm" (or clicking) ready for a ready check.

Heaven forbid you should have to respond to a system that leaves the Party leader no doubt as to is and isn't afk.

Most Party leaders have enough on their plate. Theres little reason to have them counting slashes too. If the amount of ready checks someone initates bother you so much, ask them to stop or jump ship...

Personally I would be more then happy to see a ready check. And if folks could look past WOW for a minute before they spit on a useful tool maybe you could see the merit in it.

If you find a "box to click" annoying think of it this way. with a / your hitting a total of 4 keys, with a ready check you get to hit 1.

Lol, not to mention that this tool will be even more useful in 2.0 when you will need to check on the status of 23 players up from 7 for large scale content...

[Keres]

LOL, I can just see the potential aftermath of people boycotting this feature, or asking for a "toggle" option.

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Party leader: "All right, let's down this boss. Let me fire up a quick ready check to make sure we're all here and let's do this."

*Party leader initiates a ready check. 7 of the 8 party members click "Ready", except for one, Bob, who doesn't respond to the ready check. 30 seconds later, the ready check times out and lists Bob as AFK.*

Party leader: "Hey, Bob, are you here? It says you're AFK."

Bob: "Oh, yeah, I chose not to click the ready check. I don't like that feature. WoW has one, you know."

Party leader: "So...you're ready, but you wanted to make me ask you individually about it and hold the whole group up?"

Bob: "Yup."

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Alternatively, if a toggle feature were implemented:

*Party leader initiates a ready check. 7 of the 8 party members click "Ready", except for one, Bob, who has ready checks disabled. Party leader is notified by the game client that 7/8ths of the party is ready, except for Bob, who has an unknown status due to having ready checks disabled.*

Party leader: "Hey, Bob, are you here? I can't tell because you have ready checks disabled."

Bob: "Oh, yeah, I chose to turn those off. I don't like that feature. WoW has one, you know."

Party leader: "So...you're ready, but you wanted to make me ask you individually about it and hold the whole group up?"

Bob: "Yup."

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You'd only be causing headaches and inconvenience for the rest of your group. Nobody is going to care about your righteous crusade against World of Warcraft, they're only going to care that you're holding the group up by insisting on being a special snowflake. This is nothing but a good thing for group organization.

[Tricksy]

Lmao.

God forbid some people question the need to copy even the smallest of WoW features, just because they are in WoW. When resources and time could be spent on ironing out and fixing features that are already in place in ff14.

Whitekinghts will ruin this game and then 2 months after 2.0 will go on to ruin another MMO. All in the name of bringing "MMO standards" to every MMO game that tries to release with uncommon features and a unique vision.

I could care less about some stupid ready check. There are hella bigger fish to fry in regards to ff14.