Ready Check~

[Rokien]

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.

Wooow, because that's really how it's going to go down.... -.-

Man, how do people manage without this revolutionary idea!?!

[Antipika]

Wooow, because that's really how it's going to go down.... -.-

Man, how do people manage without this revolutionary idea!?!

People do manage because the end-game content difficulty in XIV is subpar. Also the way instances are made currently makes ready check not really a must have.

Right now, only challenges are : 17-18min speedruns / Garuda.

Speedruns: No time for ready check during the run, have to move fast. Also only one mini-boss and one boss, so you keep on moving constantly.
Garuda: Short battle as well, only "one" pull, then you remain engaged and focused the whole fight. Ready check would only be useful before entering, but since once you enter, Garuda doesn't attack, it's not a big issue, because the 30min time limit is barely a restriction.

Then, party are only 8 players, 7 minus the leader. Even if not convenient, it still possible to check manually if players are there or not as long as the party is small.

Using that argument of yours "how do people manage without this idea", we could simply remove everything that was implemented in the game during the past years. Who need improved market wards! We could manage without on XIV 1.0! Who needs mounts!? Who needs improved looking for repair? Who needs... Let's go back to XIV 2010 shall we.

More importantly, who needs players that refuse to comply to leader's orders in a raid? No one. So again, don't use the feature, enjoy being removed from groups, no one will ever miss you. You are expandable.

[Colino]

More importantly, who needs players that refuse to comply to leader's orders in a raid? No one. So again, don't use the feature, enjoy being removed from groups, no one will ever miss you. You are expandable.

No, please. We have plenty Rokien as is.