Examines you.

[Viscount]

In FFXI whenever people inspected your gear you would be notified in the log.

I like it when I know people are looking at my equipment. ^.~

I noticed this was absent in FFXIV, should it be brought back?

[Nuinn]

I'd say no. It kind of fails all my attempts at stalking >.>

[Zenaku]

It was taken off due to the fact that JP always bitch and complain to NA for checking them. You can even get ban for spam checking someone -.- that how far JP got mad about it. I blame the translation dev for that one tho because what i heard from a JP is that it say something else like i look you up and down so i blame SE for that one lol.

[Phe]

not only this, but also achievements for being examined like 500, 1000 and 5000 times for the maximum epeen effect.

[Nuinn]

not only this, but also achievements for being examined like 500, 1000 and 5000 times for the maximum epeen effect.

/examine <t>

MACROd ! It's like the samba-bomb event spam

[Nix]

It was taken off due to the fact that JP always bitch and complain to NA for checking them. You can even get ban for spam checking someone -.- that how far JP got mad about it. I blame the translation dev for that one tho because what i heard from a JP is that it say something else like i look you up and down so i blame SE for that one lol.

Iirc on the japanese side it read like " _____ stares at you intently" which was taken quite badly D: I've only ever had one instance of /checking someone and them totally flipping out on me though. Usually most were cool about it and I'd /bow or something to say thank you and it was usually well received.

I remember a conversation about this a looong time ago, I think it was on KillingIfrit? Could be wrong though>< and it went on to say why the Japanese players disliked the /check feature, it described the translation on their side but it seemed that English speakers and Japanese speakers were at an impasse. Some English were like "Well you know it is a bad translation, so don't take it personally." and some Japanese were like "But you know it annoys us, yet you still do it".

Personally I don't mind if the text comes back or not, it was nice it not being there. Even if I was in really nice gear and that little message popped up I'd be like "Awww crap, what do they think?", though it was nice when I'd get the occasional compliment, overall I felt kinda paranoid seeing that message though... There was a lot of e-peen stroking in FFXI and if you didn't have XYZ item you were considered gimp so I think that kinda added to the nerves haha.

If it does come back, I'd like a decent translation on both sides - something akin to "_____ browses your equipment" instead of "______ stares at you intently"; with the option to shut off said message if you so desire.

[Lirion]

I remember people getting upset when they saw that someone examined them.

[Millerna]

I remember people having fake 'examines you' emotes macro'd and spamming them around the Jeuno AH

[Nix]

I remember people having fake 'examines you' emotes macro'd and spamming them around the Jeuno AH

xD If I was on my taru mule I'd always /panic at the person using the macro lol.

[Enkidoh]

Personally in FFXI I always found people checking me without asking first as very rude (and not just because of the slightly sexual innuendo of someone 'checking out' - ala, perving - on a female character), as often such checkers would then send offensive tells to me criticizing my choice of equipment/job-sub combo because it didn't match their narrow-minded idea of what gear I should be wearing or job/sub combo I should have (and no, I wasn't wearing anything gimp or ridiculous, or had a stupid job/sub combination, I just experimented with gear that worked well for me). However, if someone actually asked me if they could check my gear, I usually said yes. It just basically came down to manners and courtesy.

And yeah, I often got spamchecked in places like Jeuno as well - usually I made my annoyance known by saying in emote "/Enkidoh feels examined ><" or, more rarely and crudely" "/Enkidoh pulls out her knife and says "the next one to check me without asking loses their eyes!" :P

Hence not having to worry about that in FFXIV was a major improvement in my opinion - one of the things FFXIV actually got right at the start. :P So I really hope it's not brought back for 2.0.