Accessibility options urgently in need of update

[mukuburd]

If you, like me, suffer migraines? I highly advise against it if you don't want to be laid out. M4S was atrocious, but M4N wasn't a bad reaction for me. I can read M5S but I still get headaches, so I definitely recommend sitting this tier out if you think M5S is going to murder you with photosensitivity issues. Thise flashes are a bit excessive.

SADLY, things shouldn't be that way in advising against a fight, it hurts me to even say this T_T

FWIW I haven't even attempted nor do I intend to try Savage at all this entire xpac after M4N flattened me from the get go, but I love watching prog streamers and can only barely watch M5S on streams which is a new feat for me :'D

[Storm-Driver]

Putting my voice in here, I'm not colorblind to EX4's palette specifically, but fights like O10s a handful of years ago gave me huge issues due to the color-coded debuffs that tanks needed to pay attention to. There haven't been too many fights like that since, but EX4 is close. The red and gray hues are very difficult to spot the difference between in the moment, especially because of the way mechanics overlap like crazy and the floor is unreadable at some points (Bloom 2 comes to mind) where being able to see the floor patterns is CRUCIAL to getting through the mechanic unscathed.

Other fights are also just getting overloaded with difficult to parse telegraphs that only make progression annoying moreso than meaningful. Having telegraphs that are readable is far more important that trying to be flashy and show things off. It's fine in tiny doses here and there, but there's no need to create artificial difficulty when the piecing together of the mechanics should be difficult enough. Making the tells hard to read is just obnoxious on top of it.

[Mawlzy]

For those of you who play PvP, particularly Frontline, I encourage you to add your suggestions regarding accessibility and VFX in this thread:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-PvP-Frontline

[LynMars]

Adding support here. Even as someone without colorblindness or photosensitivity (but getting older), it's getting very hard to read with low contrasts, similar colors, and lots of flashing. I already have other player effects limited or off and it barely helps. My friends who do have visual impairments or other disabilities are definitely having issues. When a person I know can't even try a new job because the common advice of "if this color, go flank, if that color, go rear" does nothing for them!

SE is far behind the curve in accessibility options as it is, and continuing to make fights like this (after numerous issues concerning difficult visuals, often for the exact same reasons in previous expansions!) shows a disturbing lack of concern on the part of the encounter and UI developers until it's once again pointed out and they're forced to change it. Though some instances, unfortunately, are never updated (P3's orange on orange on orange, for example).

[Kozh]

+1 for support. I don't have colorblind nor photosensitivity (maybe just a tiny bit), but I am easy to get migraine and overwhelmed by visuals. Sorry to say, but since EW a lot of fights have been increasingly full of visual vomit with overly flashy and saturated color. I thought it was annoying in EW, then DT crank it up even higher. Even doing dungeons are tiring for my eyes.

[Nero-Voidstails]

the reason why it's bad it's because your Consol/PC have those option build in

[Lurial]

My sister has epilepsy and essentially has had to quit playing FFXIV because the accessibility options seem to have just been forgotten entirely

[Kanti]

I'm mildly RG colorblind and it only rarely affects me. Recollection EX surprised me with how poorly I could make out the floor patterns during Rosebloom. This is the first time I've actually tried to use the accessibility features. If even I'm having trouble now, I can't imagine how bad it is for more severely affected players.

Something's gotta give.

[Wyssahtyn]

the visual vomit is probably part of that "improved encounter design" unironically

[Xenovel]

The visuals are too much sometimes even without any visual problems, so I can't imagine how bad it is for people with them. Ex 4 in particular is pretty bad. Other MMOs have a way to change AoE colours, and other accessibility options (like addons being legal *cough cough*). FFXIV needs to catch up.