Chat bubbles is what i want the most, i really feel like there's a disconnect between your character talking and just talking in a tiny chat box on the side, it's incredibly easy to miss out that someone was addressing you in /say and i imagine people would be a lot more social if they saw people chatting on a visual level like that
This is what has killed my experience for every single MMO ever. I have blanked so many social experiences and come across as rude and ignorant because of the very easy to miss chat system
Honestly, I don't want to see chat bubbles, but I think the current option is if others use this addon you can see them whether you want to or not, right?
@@DreamingVoid you're assuming it'd be a binary interpretation. My thought would be proximity based; only players within x many alms, or who have targeted you can display speech bubbles by default, with the regular text box remaining intact and functioning as normal. The user interface is very customizable and tends to have the most favored or recommended default settings when you first log in, but you are encouraged to tweak for your perfect experience. For instance, some people prefer sound to be based on camera position, others on their avatar position in the world. This is critical to your personal experience, but how do you choose which is the default for all players?
I really hope they change the house furnishing placement, even though it's lower priority since not everyone has property. I don't use addons, but I seen that one that allows you to move items freely, and it hurts to see how much easier things can be, instead of having to glitch for hours.
Yes please! And they really need to adjust the item to house size ratio. Especially since they add so many housing items constantly, but no one has the room to use them unless they remove things or just start over. I saw someone suggest items like 2, 3, or 4 partitions in a set to make a wall or multiple lofts in a set, rather than using a bunch of individual ones.
Wildstar was made in 2014 and you could do this freely in housing. you could even SCALE the furnishing freely. I dont get why they insist on having set scale, not allowing certain items to be set on partitions (but allowed on walls) etc etc. So many ridicilous rules that help no one
I use the text-to-speech mod both to enjoy the story in ARR content, and to get chat thatI otherwise might miss. Other than that, I'd love to see midi device (at least midi keyboard) compatibility/support for Bard music without needing a mod too :)
I personally don't feel the need to use any mods, but text to speech should just be in the game anyways. It's an accessibility feature that should be in the settings just like the colorblind modes and there's not really an excuse for it to not be in the game. Edit: to add another point to this, at least in the USA (one of the countries FFXIV is distributed) companies are legally responsible for providing accomodations to anyone using their products/services so the fact that SE has gotten away with not providing at least approved 2nd party support for TTS is baffling to me. Then again, it's the same thing as their own ToS, unless someone decides to take them to court over it SE won't be held accountable.
i really need text to speed i have add and reading text is really hard for me i can't enjoy the story due to how fast the text goes automatically so i had to rely for someone read it on a gameplay it's sadness me i wish yoshi p will fix this. makes me really sad i enjoy the story
Don't forget the check out the community lexicon repo for TextToTalk. It'll fix many of the mispronounced names, locations, and acronyms that can be said in the game.
Be good on ps4 when you don't have time too type and get killed by a aoe well typing and need a big fat keyboard that take up your only other plug in for a external hard drive
Chat organising tools such as highlighting the names of specific players, friends, people in friends list groups, etc. The ability to hide emotes from players not on your friends list or outside a whitelist. The ability to highlight your name when it's mentioned in chat, emotes, etc. Auto-opening the loot menu when new loot is added, and the ability to move/resize the big dialogue box that pops up in duties. Official bard midi or midi keyboard input support. BDO has this! If midi support was official, it would be much easier for them to stop unlicensed songs from being played, which is against the ToS and can lead to legal issues. As far as shaders go, I feel like that will be much less of a problem once we get the graphical upgrades. It's looking that way at least.
People will always want to make their game unique. I think focusing on GShade is a mistake since there are likely other programs and applications that can do this. Photographers etc use monitor calibrators and people can use them to change screen "colors". I think GShade just makes it easier for the average person who doesn't know these other apps exist. I would rather they focus on actual in-game things like you mention as well as the ability to resize the in-game chat panels so that it's not gigantic compared to my other UI elements. I would rather there be a sliding scale for UI elements instead of preset choices especially since there seems to be a big jump in options on the lower end (60% and then 80%).
@@melissas4874 Yeah exactly. I mean hell, anyone with an Nvidia graphics card can use their in-built colour settings to do similar things, so it's a bit of a redundant thing to ask for imo.
@@melissas4874 While I do agree that GShade is not as important as adding more customizability to UI elements, it would be nice if some time in the future, there would be a way to give console players the same visual customization that PC players have. I've been using GShade alongside most of the quality of life plugins mentioned in this video since I started playing the game, but I feel bad for some of my console friends who do not have that option.
@@Tresorthas Yoshida knows English but he's very self conscious about speaking it. He feels he's not very good with speaking English. So the most we usually get in English is his introduction or him saying 'no' or 'yes' if a question or suggestion really gets to him. Like in America, English is taught in schools but after a certain point, you're not required to take it unless you need it for a job. SE is first and foremost a JAPANESE developer. Most of their games never come to the English speaking world. Yoshida is also their FIRST dev to insist on speaking directly to the players. Before him, you'd NEVER hear anything from SE unless it's a prepared statement from their translation/marketing teams or a fan translated interview. There's a reason why in FF11 we joked about a 'JP' button. And that the American forums would ask bilingual players to translate our concerns and bring them to the Japanese forums for us. Otherwise we'd get ignored. Just the fact that Yoshida is willing to speak to us with a translator sometimes is a HUGE step forward.
The load screen thing would have been nice, I bought endwalker when I started for the pre order earring... and I was immediately taken from the ARR opening to Shadowbringers at the time and then on Endwalker release that and I saw way too much of the trailer by accident..
Yes it would be so cool that it changes depending on what expac you're playing and can mitigate spoilers, i mean come on why show EW cinematic when you're still at SB XD
@@RenevousAssasin you should be able to change that from one of the options on the main menu. i dont know if it'll stick though unfortunately so maybe a plugin is needed
This type of video is really important. The devs DO want to know what players want the most as well, and content creators that have a rapport with the devs are a good filter for them I think
@@DreamingVoid Fun fact: ping problems from machinsits have been reported since HW, with heavy feedbacks during SB, leading to people not being able to play the job. 6 years later the only answer we got was "We didnt know" and it's still the only job that don't have charges, despite asking them since HW/SB. So yeah they prefer to download a mod because they didnt give a damn
@@glemoo Yup they said they tested with simulated environment and they didnt find anything (which is fun because I remember people having quotes of yoship saying the jobs works with 200 ping back in SB), asking then to post on the forum so they can have more infos which disregard the 4 to 6 years of feedback actually given in the forums before, because on the "main" post, lot of people reposted old thread about it, which were never acknowledged and on top of that, despite being told during the media tour, machinist is still the only one without charges to ease the issue.
colorblind mode NEEDS to target visually important stuff(quest zone on the map is invisible to my friend) not the game world and chars. it should make the gameplay visually clear without fucking up how everything looks
It's invisible to me too. I tried using colour blind mode and it made the world so unbelievably ugly I turned it back off and just use a website to tell me where to go if I can't find it I genuinely think no one on their entire team is colour blind, given how hard to see things can be. The last boss of the new dungeon is a great example; when bolts of fabric come down I can't tell them apart so I've no idea where the safe spot is 😭
@@thewittyusername they definitely have fallen short on the color blind mode things. But for that last boss, if it helps, one color has three knots and the other only has two so that's another way you can tell where the safe spot is
A lot of the mods talked are very interesting, and i would have asked for them. I would add : - Something that keep track of the chatlog. when i'm RPing it's hard to keep track of what have been said, and i lately turned to copy paste all the text manually and it's complicated - bring back the ears/ hats and use the mods existing to Hrothgar and Viera - i wish some of the emotes could stay. resting face, reading, eating, hugging. And i wish we could choose the way some emote works. I don't want to /feintdeath when i'm lala because it's just ridiculous. And it's sad, considering i've paid for this emote. I notice they've released the sitting and the staying resting pose, you can choose, so if they could do the same to face (like, i have a friend who's character is /confidentsmile all the time, my character is more on /worried, another is often showing his anger...) - I wish you could do raid24 in exploration mode. I want to visit Dalmasca, and not while fighting I know, all of this is for RP, and it's not the majority of player that does but that's what i would love.
I love that Yoshida's answer to add-ons is basically "I'm sorry you feel that you need mods to enjoy the game, I promise to improve the UI so you won't feel like you need them anymore" Yoshi-p is too precious, must protect
I can easily agree with every single one of these, even the ones that don't directly affect me. My opinions on parsing won't change, so I won't comment on that, but fixing housing item placement and adding something that differentiates Magical and Physical Damage would be massive. It's shocking how many of these are just simple small UI updates as well, goes to show which aspects of the game haven't aged too gracefully.
The issue with parsing is that establishing endgame content with clear dps checks and prohibiting parsing is stupid. People exaggerate how much it affects players in casual WoW content and if someone parses subpar in kill attempts in high end content, Partys should be allowed to replace this player.
I would appreciate more functions for gpose, like being able to change poses and expressions of characters but also npcs. Also appealing shaders for the overall game.
I have seen no one ask for this (> ' ')> fix UI so we can interact with multiple tabs without getting the error. For examples....casting glamours, accepting party invites. Moving items around/selling purchasing items. Search feature for items would also be amazing 👏
I'm not sure if you're talking about something else, but there is a general item search feature: typing "/isearch partial or full item name" (no quotations) into your chat bar brings up a list of items matching what you searched for in your inventory including your retainers, saddlebag, etc.
@@morsecodex They're talking about the error that pops up whenever you're in a menu from an interactable, or non typical menu. Something along the lines of "You cannot do this action while busy." First example I can think of is the glamour window from the character screen or a lot of vendor windows that lock you down.
I think this will not happen, a friend that works as a programmer said once to me, that they programm that so when you do "critical" stuff like buy and sell they lock you so you can not brake the transaction. There are a lot of experience especially in MMOs when you do A simultaneously with B the game register for e.g. not that you bought an Item. It's a clunky and simple way to avoid to deal with that problems :/ There is a really good Defcon Video where a person who used glitches or Hacks in MMOs for 20 years to make money from nothing explains some of the technics he used.
@@morsecodex idk where we're supposed to learn that except from other people so maybe we need a function guide that tells us that. Unless that's already there.
This video aged very well. Today as for patch 6.48 most of the QoL suggestions here are implemented, like the job icons, type of damage icon, and so on. Let's hope devs are really taking this as a checklist
Desperately want all of those QoL/accessibility things to be added. My ADHD brain would personally love either TTS or just flat out more voiced things in the game, especially the dialogue that pops up during duties/raids/etc because I always miss it even though it's in the middle of the screen since I'm busy, you know, doing combat. No idea why ALL of that isn't voiced especially when it links into abilities the bosses are using sometimes??? On a completely different note I'd love to see something that lets us have more UI elements only show when hovered over or being actively used if we chose to. A delayed fade-out for the chatbox after the most recent message, etc, so when we're just wandering around the world our unused UI disappears and lets us appreciate the view. Right now I just have a toggle for my "MSQ-mode" UI to turn off all unnecessary components but it's annoying to have to switch back and forth manually.
I saw an option that creates a glow on the edge of your screen that basically increases/decreases based on where noise is coming from. A streamer said they would use it in fights where you had to be able to see the direction of some boss ability - so the light or glow would increase from the noise of the boss's ability on the left or right of his screen and he'd know to run the opposite way. So I think there are some good items in the options, but nobody knows how to use them or what they would be good for in this regard.
Gatherbuddy made fishing actually fun and less rng feeling. It didn't add anything, just recontextualised what was in the game already but actually pushed me to get dragons deep done.
13:45 This just changed my life, seeing your job change icons. Until now, I had NO clue you could set the soul crystal pics in macros. I'm now changing every single one of my job change buttons to their soul crystals. THANK YOU!
I'd want all of these worked into the base game, but these are what I'd want most (other than chat bubbles): - being able to increase the size of your own debuffs relative to party debuffs - more party frame customizations; why can't I swap party buffs/debuffs to the other side? - built-in mouseover support for targeted abilities; could have a toggle under character settings; frees up macros & queuing issues
True! Skeuomorphism died in modern UI design in about 2013, about a year before ARR released. FFXIV UI is the epitome of skeuomorphism, making it feel old and outdated.
@@Sammysapphira Wow, you must hate every computer and phone you've been using for years now. They all dropped the UI style to make UI look like physical objects with texture.
I got one that FFXIV needs to do, eliminate the glamor dresser and use WoW's "learnable" glam so once you collect a piece you don't need to save it. Tie it into glamor plates too.
I just don’t understand why they cap you at 400 in the dresser. Makes 0 sense. Also just is shit to have to use glamour prisms. Heavily convoluted and flawed system that could be made so easy
RE: UI Theme Imagine the bright blue UI theme but with the classic Final Fantasy four-corner RGB controls. Get that old nostalgia feeling from customizing your FFVII windows with all sorts of weird colors.
This is such a great video - thank you Zepla. One of the reasons I'm so invested in this game is, as a disabled gamer - controller support/integration is of paramount importance to me. FFXIV does this well - but it's not perfect, nothing ever is/will be. But I can play this game A LOT easier due to controller input with my disability. MKB with dexterity/claw hands in near impossible at times; that's not to say it's easy on controller - but it's more accessible, for me. But you're right - accessibility should never be an afterthought, and it requires lived-experience input to ultimately be successful. Again, thank you for this video and highlighting this, just a bit.
All of these sound really amazing as a console player, especially one who enjoys decorating. I had to give friends access to my personal to help me just put up regular lofts, no glitches or floating or anything just trying to put the fuckers up
It's kind of baffling to me that they are saying that it's incredibly difficult to implement damage types and job icons next to names when some random guy can do it in a couple hours.
Because they have to do it by changing the games code. The add ons just add something on top or interfer with what the game is telling the computer or something. And SE has to do the quality assurance and be accountable to the people overseeing development, they also have to be payed and they're working on other things so they have to prioritize resources and time. This is different from someone doing it as a hobby who isn't necessarily accountable to anyone.
Also SSS is a very half-baked solution to improving your skill and doesn't make sense for the most part. Fly to Idyl/Rhalgr/Eulmore/Radz > pick the fight that you want to test on > oh you didn't gear sync yourself for older fights? Too bad > never coming back ever again. Training dummies at various locations and even housing on the other hand for the most part is perfect if you want to build in that muscle memory but the downside is the fact that you don't know what you're doing is right.
@@Orphan_of_Kos_or_some_say_Kosm Fun fact: it happens often that SSS can't be beaten by certain jobs even with 10 ilvl more. It happened for SB's rdm or shb's machinist and others that i can't remember. Plus a 3 min fight without mecanics isn't representative: you can squeeze more ressources in the 3 minutes that you'd keep for a 4 min burst normally, leading to an artificial higher dps, crits and DH have way more impact and for jobs relying on high burst with low filler dps you will always have the same kill time because you will kill during the last burst. What we want to know is if a fight has multiple disengage where you can't target the boss: do i do better if i keep my burst before, after, how do I use my buffs: you have no idea if you are doing good or not, which lead to enrages: having DPS CHECKS in a game where you can't check your dps is dumb. Most DF people don't do half the dps they should with their level and you don't need to have a parser to know it, you can see it just by looking at how they move and play. Where ACT is useful is for the high end duties where you need to know where that 1k dps is missing from.
I wish they would put the daily reset time in the Timers window. Not a UI related thing but I wish they made Calamity Salvager accesible through the Glamour Dresser, kind of like how it already connects to the Armoire. I wouldn't mind it if it costs gil to use. And please let me adjust the volume settings after entering a Mahjong match.
@@anggasurbakti8269 It's not that easy though. Daylight savings makes it confusing. Especially because it the dates of entering and exiting daylight savings might be different in your country vs the country of your server vs the countries of your friends in the server. If the Timers window can tell me I have 12 tribal quests remaining, it sure as hell can and should tell me when the daily reset is. It already has the weekly reset so like please don't make excuses for something that should be there.
I have huge issues focusing on things and will not notice myself reaching low health.. What helped me a lot was a plugin where I could put on a warning sound when I had reached a set amount of %.. And it saves my ass a lot.
@@raphwalker9123 Really don't think thats cheating it just gives you a heads up, a lot of people are struggling with this even the more advanced players i know are complaining about it and mant many other features ''getting good'' doesn't always apply..
@@xReaghan it is cheating because the rest of us dont have that luxury,why not take it a step further and have alarms for when a aoe is about to pop or when somone in the party dies
The stuff from 11:14 onwards, about the improvements in high ping environments, is extremely important. This game has servers in very few regions (when compared to similar games), so any and every improvement that could be made in regards to this has to be considered. This is no simple request, but it's nevertheless needed, both for the existing players and in order for the game to grow. Of course, the ideal solution would be to have servers in more regions, but I have no hopes for this to happen. In the Live Letter about the future of the game, they didn't talk about getting servers in more regions.
Great video. I dont know if i missed it but three features i would also love are: - customizable cast bars (like removing the art, text, etc), - hiding job gauges when out of combat and - mouseover functionality for abilities
For some tiny personal input, for the love of god SE, I found out a couple days ago that one tweak in one plugin was to disable targeting via the right mouse button. This is something I've wanted almost since I started playing because it's easy to accidentally target something while trying to move the camera repeatedly in combat. I've gone through official channels and encouraged likeminded people to weigh in. When it's way more convenient to set up and use said plugin than it is to even suggest that tweak for inclusion in the actual game, people are obviously going to go that route instead of trying to give feedback. SE needs to open communication about these features and welcome input. Most people are just trying to make the game more enjoyable to play without hurting integrity or hurting other people.
You can also simply fix that issue but not have your cursor over anything/anyone when moving your camera. That's a very miniscule issue that can easily be fixed by the player just paying attention to their cursor. If you tend to lose your cursor, you can make it bigger or even change the color to see it better. Yoshi has always been open to input. So much has changed in the game because of player input. And they're planning to implement stuff from mods because of input. I don't see how that's not welcoming? Usually during liveletters, you can talk in chat (attempt to lol, it goes so quickly), and hope they catch your question or submit questions/suggests that they'll respond to for Q&A liveletters. But it would be impossible to have a direct conversation and the suggestion box is probably over flowing.
@@Mouse-go3gc That's such a strange thing to say to minimize and dismiss someone's experience with a problem LMFAO. Why do you need to pay attention to where the cursor is every single time you want to rotate the camera for a better viewing angle?. Dodging aoes and also gotta dodge player models with the cursor apparently. Why does the right click have to select a player or object anyways? The solution it's literally just a checkbox option in the settings menu. But I suppose if they implemented that you wouldn't be happy because it doesn't affect you and now you won't be able to berate this guy tell em to git gud and flame him and learn 2 play, right?
I know this isn't the main point of the video, but for the person at 14:10 whoever that may be, there actually IS a way to "see shields" when not in a party. If you go to Character Configuration > UI setting > Party List, there's an option labeled "Hide party list when solo" and if you uncheck that, it'll show your name in the top left (or wherever your party list is) even if you're not in a party. But now to the main point of the video, I agree with what the plugin dev said at the end where, most of the plugins I've heard about/seen make them out of wanting the game to improve, not to harm or undermine the work that SE has done for the game. They do it out of their passion for the game, and see something that SE might not see and go "hey maybe we can improve on that to help out more people"
The ones about more UI/HUD customization are gold, and I’ll add one to those - an ability to “line break” party lists the same way you can your hot bars. While healing, I’m targeting people with Ctrl and 1-4,Q-R, and I can’t tell how often the 5th party member have got late heals due to me not clearly seeing if they’re the 4th (Ctrl+4) or 5th (Ctrl+Q) party member. Cognitive mapping that column to a line is a mental step that would be nice to not have.
@@jtowensbyiii6018 No, hotkeys are not always better. Not saying they're bad or anything like that, but they are not objectively always better. Especially for targeting.
The summoner add ons are awesome and since we have full sized primals, it would be cool if we could summon other primals as like a glamour, but after the more important stuff like the UI.
the main thing that killed the plans for that i think was that square knew everyone hated summoner (except the then summoner mains) becuase it was a WoW lock and not a ff summoner. and so dropped any support summoner was getting from arr all the way until EW with the rework. you can see when they first implimented the egi glams waaaay back in arr they never touched it again (even cut ramuh egi they were working on at the time). so hopefully with smn how it is now we will see some glam options but i worry the stupid high prices they will make them in the mogstation with how overpriced everything already is (7$ for a simple emote, and bland mounts being 30-40) i wouldnt expect a primal vfx set from square to go for anything less than 60$ minimum... thankfully the modding community has great smn vfx mods and someone even recently discovered how to add voice lines vfx mods which works great for the primals that have them
I almost didn't bother watching this, but I am SO glad I did - this was one of the best videos I've ever seen. I really hope this gets a LOT of attention from the devs. Great job, Zepla!
Great content. One thing: Shields can be seen already in your party UI. You can set it in the game menu to always display the party UI even if not in a party. There you can see the shields.
There's a bunch I want in the game officially including what was already mentioned in the video, I'm not going to say what the plugins are called though they will be grouped by the addon -Option to show battery (if available) in the Server Info Bar, good for portable devices -More chat tabs -Allow locking the framerate based on current activity, uncapped during combat, duty, cutscenes, interactions, locked otherwise, good for portable devices -Mark whether you have done a roulette yet in the list so you don't have to click it to see -Show an icon in the duty finder next to duties that give Wondrous Tails stickers (and if you have already done it) -While most of the functionality is already in the game now, it still doesn't say on Faded Orchestrion Rolls if you have the Orchestrion Roll it crafts -Conditional UI Changes, with multiple layers (small UI changes but keeps the main layout), conditions, layouts -e.g. Main Layout, and then layers for Healing, Tanking, Non-Combat Jobs, Pet Jobs, Instances, PVP, Controller. -Allow customising the Job Bars (Simple ones at least) -Automatically make backups of settings -Option to show debuffs that you have put on the enemy on their nameplate -Option to auto dismount when using actions -Option to enable mouse over for actions -Option to auto lock action bars when entering combat -Allow switching jobs by left clicking/pressing X (PS) on the job in the Classes/Jobs tab (Desynth window moved to right click/Square) -Option to hide the mouse cursor after X seconds of inactivity, great for cutscenes -Option to open the commendation window automatically -Option to open loot window automatically when items are added -Add extra commands to be used with macros, such as toggling Gamepad Mode, and Legacy Movement -Option to Sync Crafter/Gatherer bars -Show accurate venture times -Adjust equipment positions for symmetry -Allow locking more windows (loot, dialogue box, etc) -Allow customising cast bar (hiding casting text for example) -Option to show combo timer -Default to max when selling triple triad cars -Allow tweaking the minimap (hiding zoom buttons for example) -Allow moving of the text notifications that show in the middle of the screen -Allow customising the parameter bar (hiding MP bar for jobs that don't use them for example) -Remember sorting of the Titles menu -Show % on the XP bar -Show gil in the inventory -Allow Nameplates to hide under certain conditions (not in party, full HP, etc) -Allow filtering out parts of chat to be less cluttered (X has been glammed to Y spam when changing jobs for example) -Allow NPC chat bubble text to also show in the NPC chat log -Option to show current zone in the Server Info Bar -AST: Draw becomes Play when a card is drawn -BLM: Ley Lines becomes Between the Lines when Ley Lines is Active -FSH: Cast becomes Hook while fishing | Fishing abilities change to their Spear Fishing equivalents while underwater
Ooo nameplates hiding at full HP would be incredible. The triple triad cards autofilling to max and further customizations of cast bar and minimap too.
I wouldn't have thought much about the text to speech before, but now that I have brought my Father into FFXIV I think it could be really helpful. He has a hard time with reading and has mentioned multiple times that he prefers the voiced cut scenes. It would be great to see some of these changes.
I've been QA on an MMO for a WHILE now and I agree with the points about overwhelming QA. I really could see it becoming a snowballing situation where development just keeps getting more and more delayed because of edge case issues for these new features being discovered constantly. That and I wouldn't be surprised if the 1.0 spaghetti code would make their jobs 1000000000 times harder too EDIT: Also on Yoshida being unaware of ping issues, I buy it. Its super unlikely that a test environment would be able to accurately simulate high ping. There are tools for it, obviously, but as with all things in a test environment it rarely actually compares to the real thing
But that has to do with the dev cycle not making room for QoL improvements. It's not like QA cares whether those features are in or not, they just want to sign off on whatever they have to sign off before the deadline. Using QA as an excuse is dumb. That's a software development cycle issue. And for high ping simulation, there are a ton of tools where you can intentionally throttle your connection or make packet delays. Testing against high ping is not really rocket science, especially these days. But who knows what if any debug tools they actually give QA. Hell, they wouldn't even need to do setup for high ping or setup a test environment. Just have their QA testers play on EU server with a few classes and record doing the same rotation against playing on JP. That's how players in the wild noticed it.
There is no 1.0 spaghetti code, 2.0 uses an entirely new engine. And it was also confirmed during the press event for Endwalker. Now, 2.0 spaghetti code, that is another story...
@@HalfLifeHalfDead Thanks for the correction! And also thanks for doing it in a polite way. I'm just trying to show off that QA, and especially QE, is a bit more complicated than its given credit for ya know? Theres still a lot of people who just say "Nah just make them play on a live server, ez pz" or "Ur wrong theres tools for that" lmao
@@BiscottoPlays Some things for sure can be complicated to simulate, but ping/network testing is very baseline testing for games. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure Playstation and Xbox have tools to let you simulate that on dev builds and PC there's a ton of programs that can be used to simulate high ping. You don't even need to do anything else besides install the program and put in the settings or use a preset. I feel bad for you if the company you work for doesn't even have that. And if Square Enix doesn't have that either, shame on them. Live server testing is also pretty common too. Sometimes in multiplayer games you'll see a group of strange looking players, there's a non-zero chance that is a QA team live testing network mode.
@@24hr-Gaming When new features are added QA has to test all of what was added, plus an entire RC cycle worth of testing that covers every function and facet of the game in at least some capacity. So merely adding chat bubbles would require a chat bubbles test in WIP, to confirm the features working. Then again in RC. Alongside that one measly RC test would be a full smoke test. Login checks for all platforms, a test of the glamour system, raids, dungeons, trials, ultimates, NPC dialogue, NPC pathing, levelling up, abilities working as intended, particle systems working as intended, etc etc. Where theres smoke, theres fire after all. And thats just off the top of my head, i'm not a SE employee so i'm sure theres more than just that. But even then thats a nightmarish amount of RC QA work for a small patch release. As for your point on throttle tools. Yup they exists, but as you mentioned theres no way to know what tools are given. Its sad but true to say that adding new tools is always a last minute thing because of the manhours it uses to train staff to use that tool. But I do agree that getting a lag box in wouldn't be too hard. They'd have to confirm any findings with the tool in a live environment too though, which can take a while. Tis a thorough job, QA
14:16 there is a setting you can turn on to always display the party bar even when playing alone. So there is a way you can tell if you have shield even when not in a party
So many of these answers SE's given to questions about these features in the past feel like either lazy cop outs or some SERIOUS spaghetti code shenanigans. Honestly, how is it possible that a multi yen company like SE can't change some colours or add an icon to a damned nameplate?
Their engine did not support those features though, check documentary about 1.0 about it. That's why they upgrade them continuously but some feature would probably still impossible.
The thing I want (aside from literally everything in this video): When I inspect an item, the tooltip should tell me where it comes from. If I see someone with a nice glam I want to copy, how nice would it be if it told me the dungeon/raid/vendor the gear comes from
@@DreamingVoid Adding this to the tool tip wouldn't remove the option of looking it up on the net, and this absolutely can be done in a way that works well.
Imo the homescreen should default to the expansion you are currently playthrough AND you should be able to set it to the one you want once you're caught up.
I would love Chat Bubbles and Loading screen art. I've "seen" a mod that adds artwork of areas to serve as something to look at while you're loading into the area and it's nice to see official art of the areas too.
I just don't want to see people optimize the fun out of FF14 like we did with WoW. All of the extra information that can be gathered from combat addons is the first step to that end. As for all of the QoL features/cosmetic features, the solution should be for SE to improve their own game, rather than rely on third party developers to do it for them like Blizzard.
Yeah I trust the devs with this one to know what they think fits, we saw it with things like teamcraft and how they ended up adding some features in game like practice crafting and recipe lists, as well as in game alarms for gathering.
You are my most favorite FFXIV Content Creator. Im so thankful that you are still around and that the cruel things which happened in your home country didn't take you from us. We love you! Always stay with us. You are the light that keeps FFXIV alive for me.
I may or may no longer use these, but I would love to see: - MaterialUI: Makes your UI icons pretty - DelvUI for party frames: You can make it look like ElvUI and Grid (healer party frame mod in WoW)) - Glamaholic: Let you save unlimited glam plates as a template (in-game) which you can then load and unload your glam plates (saves so much time if you have more than 20 glams) - Chat bubbles
Mouseover - if there would be a toggle where spells can become mouse over compatible without having to use macros. Waymarks - shouldn't be limited to 5 but 1-2 waymarks per instance. Loot/Commendation - option to automatically open the loot/commendation window rather than clicking it. Targetting - option to limit how many yalms tab targetting will cycle through Chat - randomly use different colour of people's names in chat rather than having the same colour for everyone in that Alliance/Party/LS/CWLS
For loot/commendation, so many people instantly leave after a dungeon or raid finished. Making these open automatically will make them potentially use mods that block the popup to open automatically
yeah fuck people that want to self improve. if you want to be casual just turn off parsers. ban people that use them as a means to gatekeep or bully. incredibly simple.
If a developer tells you something is impossible, 9 times out of 10 that actually translates to "Yeah thats really not worth the trouble right now." I've been on both ends of that more than a few times lol
Honestly, I played Overwatch for 5 years, and one thing keeping me from going back is the scoreboard they have in the Overwatch 2 beta. I had my experience ruined by toxic players when I was learning a dps. Sure, my kills weren't amazing, but I was pushing the cart constantly, and the game had just launched. That's not the only toxicity I experienced because of kill count. Probably why I became a support main, because my kills didn't matter then. When I played WoW, I experienced the same toxicity with DPS meters. I'm a casual player, and I've had to be for the past 12 years due to carpal tunnel and cubital tunnel syndromes. I can't play at mythic+ levels in a normal dungeon, and that's the level of play that community often expects. I agree with Yoshi P. that scoreboards/dps meters just breed toxicity in games. I hope the policy remains the same, for the sake of casual players like me. p.s. SE, please add all unlockable hairstyles, plus hats, to Hrothgar and Viera. That's the main "mod" that I want implemented.
I feel dps meters in a training capacity might be good to have, but scoreboards in dungeons have people reserving loot for those who do the most dps which can sometimes result in only the top few getting all the gear and everyone else has to tag along and hope they get the loot before the raid group moves on.
Thank you so much for heavily emphasizing the accessibility issues! I’m hard of hearing and it’s been difficult to remedy this. I also hope you are doing well!
One of the interesting things I've heard about parsing was from asmon. They had spent all day wiping, and then he got fed up and turned of something that allowed people to compare their parse to the party, and that run they cleared it. I think they're a good, innocent feature, but they frequently push people to act differently, and play intentionally worse to hit those slightly larger numbers, regardless of the cost to the party and ultimately the player base.
I think people severely underestimate how much a parser changes the mentality and perspective of a player. Especially new ones. Regardless of whether or not you think they should be added, one thing you can't argue is that you can't just add a parser to the game as it is now and expect no negative changes. ALL of the content over the years until this day has been designed assuming that players' attention will be on certain parts of the screen.
@@cutecats532 The opposite: they kept getting killed because the parser distracted them, so when they turned it off they started dodging properly and cleared.
@@cutecats532 if we were talking abt Asmon's story, then they kept playing risky, greeded too much to increase their parse. When he told them to turn it off they immediately cleared.
It is more the toxic people will make it really bad. It isn't too hard to use it for improvement for yourself and friends without mentioning it in any public game channels.
I don't think all people using DPS meters are toxic, that's not the problem. However, it's been proven in just about every single MMO out there, that DPS meters are the single most common source of toxicity. As long as there's this "1st rule of DPS meter is you don't talk about DPS meter" policy, it's more or less OK. Just think about it. You have a bad day. You have a DPS meter. You see one player is doing bad DPS. You say it, just this once, just because you have a bad day. Here you are, toxicity, supported by the DPS meter (I'm not saying the DPS meter caused it, your bad day did, but the DPS meter helped to actually be toxic). If a DPS meter was built into the game and only 0.01% of the players would make inappropriate comments about DPS from time to time for any reason, toxicity would go through the roof. Also, I think, a DPS meter on screen in real time is utterly useless. The only real value of it is to be able to bark at the poor guy on the bottom of that meter to let off some steam when you're annoyed for some reason, which is not useful at all. What is useful, however, is some good analysis tools outside the duty to gauge and optimise yourself. (OK, there's one scenario where a live DPS meter could be useful: to determine whom to raise first when things go south in a PUG) Some suggestions: 1. ESO has a cool solution: when you start attacking a target dummy, the game automatically starts recording. When the dummy "dies", it shows you a summary of your DPS in the chat as system message. It's a great way to measure yourself and optimise your build and rotation. 2. There's a duty recorder in FFXIV. I've actually never tried it, so I can't say how useful it is. However, the concept of recording a run and analysing it afterwards has some great potential (in fact, it's what the popular 3rd party tools do). In 3 years of FFXIV, I've only once seen a dialog "Player X wants to record this duty, do you agree?" - great, it's even opt-in. :) It's probably useless in its current form, otherwise, more people would use it. But the foundation is there, SE just has to make it useful. ;)
@@raffaelherzog5098 Live DPS meters are useful for deciding who to give astro cards to, who to dance partner, who to give dragon eyes, it's also useful to just get on-the-spot feedback about your performance, so you can adjust accordingly on the spot instead of waiting a whole instance timer before you can sit down and see what happened. I use it all the time when doing savage/extreme content, and at worst it's a non-factor that causes no hindrance, and at best it tells me if I'm underperforming so I can change my gameplay on the spot (particularly valuable on healers since it tells me how much I'm overhealing). Regarding the toxicity argument, it is true that there is toxicity born from parsing, but it's very important to make the distinction between parsing and harassing. There is a very obvious, black and white line between simply using a parsing or even mentioning it, and using it to bully and harass someone, crossing that line should be the point of concern and banning.
@@raffaelherzog5098 I mean Yoshi P talked about situations where someone hasn't played for months and queues into a dungeon and is hassled over it. In that case you can just limit it to being viewable in high end duties and just show personal dps or even total party dps. That way it's impossible to single anyone out. There's definitely compromises if he's worried about people being hassled over it. Plus, the harassment policy is already extremely broad so people who are nasty will end up reported anyway. PVP at the end already shows you total damage done and K/D/A and PVP in general is way more of a competitive environment, yet I haven't heard of any complaints about people being upset about it.
The debuff one is kinda already in the game. It doesn't make it larger, but you can make it so only your debuffs are shown. It's in Character Configuration > UI Settings > HUD. Scroll down to Targets and select: "Display only detrimental effects you inflict." That way you don't have to worry about confusing your debuffs with someone else's.
Here's my thoughts: I definitely agree with the housing ideas. Glitching things to float is a pain with a mouse, and almost impossible with a controller. I was able to do it once, but it took me a couple of hours just to float one item, and I haven't been able to do it since, but I'd love to have things on top of the lofts we have in-game; at least let them be considered a solid surface so I can put things on top of them. Accessibility optIons would be amazing. I have a tough time reading the font they use for the numbers, and all 2, 5, 6, 8, and 9s all look similar to me. The ability to change the font to a few preset options would be immensely helpful, and an option for larger cooldown numbers would seriously help. Sure, it's there if you mouse over, but that isn't available for controller players. I also think a text-to-speech accessibility option would definitely help, especially for those of us with issues like ADHD or dyslexia, who find it hard to read a lot of text; while I'd love the whole thing to be voiced, I can see how that wouldn't be particularly feasible, especially with the voice acting for ARR being different from the rest of the game. UI modularity is a great idea. Separating HP and MP the way you can separate buffs, debuffs, and "other" would be great, since all the non-caster classes (plus PLD and DRK) don't even use it.
As awful as this whole fiasco has been it’s nice to have some light shine on the areas of the UI that are lacking and why people feel the need to use plugins to fix it.
I think some things, like chat bubbles for example, were left out because the ps3 UI could only support a limited number of elements, which is why we didn't have party mp/tp bars. I'm also curious if there are any limitations the ps4 is putting on the game now.
@@ann._.skz21 Lotro wasn't on PS3. Not that it's an excuse now: when PS3 support was dropped, we got the party MP bars. We should get chat bubbles too.
Honestly, I think they should consider having an API for mods, and simply exclude whatever they do not wish to be altered from the API. If they don't want any combat addons, don't include any combat related data in the API for example.
I think they're wanting to actually add them into the game for the fairness and accessibility for playstation players also; rather than only catering to PC players.
No. One of the best things about ffxiv is that you don't need mods. If they allow it then there's no way the game won't end up being designed around them, making them necessary.
Then you'll still have console players that wouldn't have access to any of these mods. Also it would disincentivize them to implement these mods on their own because players can do it themselves. For free. So they just need so get a couple of devs to specifically focus on stuff community wants/needs for a couple of months and problem solved.
No, just no. The Dev already states that mods are against ToS. Having an API for mods which mean change of ToS. They current take on the mod-user are "we can't tell you are using mod if you just keep it to yourself and leave no hard proof. But if someone give us evident, you better watch your arse". And frankly, if you have problem with the game's quality, complain with the Dev. FFXIV's dev teams are keen on updating the game and its QoL
I 100% agree that a dps meter will create toxicity and I pray it is never implemented in game. But MANY of these (mods/plug-ins) would be so helpful if they are considered.
@@Daniel-kn9xr it might not affect people who are already seasoned raiders since they've obviously been using one already but it will make some casuals/new raiders bash people potentially for not doing enough dps compared to other people in the party
I know console technically have the colourblind option but the game should have its own colourblind option for console versions. And also. Being able to remove all special effects or flashing lights as an option. My mate wants to play this game but due to epilepsy has been super reluctant because they don't want seizures and the thunderstorms in gridiania locales is enough to trigger them
I have nerve issues with my hands, long play sessions cause them to cramp up, having to stretch my hands to hit something as simple as the "7" key can cause sharp pain, so a mod like XIVcombo which brings PVP combo functionality to PVE helps me beable to play the game. Jobs like Samurai, Ninja, Paladin, Dark Knight are unplayable with out this addon. You can do Combo stuff in PVP, there's no reason we can't have it in PVE.
Totally agree. I've seen some arguments that it would remove the feel of complexity that they prefer or make things too easy. It certainly doesn't make it much easier because you'd still have to know what state in the cycle it's at to combo certain abilities. They can also make it like pvp where you can either drag the combo action onto your hotbar or drag each step of the combo down to their own keys, so the choice is yours.
XVICOMBO is very close to be like a “cheat” if used in PVE. It reduces a lot the base difficulty of the game and that is something that you don’t want. It turns every jobs into one button. Instead what you can do is having a better keybind. Actually I use only 123 numbers on the top of my keyboard. I use Shift/Alt to get 2 different variations (which leads to have 6 more buttons on 123). Also you can have WASD and Q E. these buttons are relative close to each other and with Shift/ALT/CNTRL you can have as much options as you want.
Something I think needs to be pointed out, and it's something I imagine most people don't know(I sure didn't until Bungie just straight up explained it regarding Destiny 2) is that certain elements of the game, from UI elements to actual functions of certain things, often have a hard limit on how much they can show/do in the game engine itself. As an example from Destiny 2, weapons used to be able to create something called "Orbs of Power", which when picked up did various things based on your build. However, Bungie wanted to add a new type of perk to weapons that would give them different bonuses based on the content the weapon was received from. To do this, they had to remove the ability to create Orbs of Power, because it having both would exceed the hard limit on how much any single gun can actually do built in to the engine. There's a hard limit on how many different functions a single piece of gear can support enforced by the engine, and exceeding that would require a significant amount of time and effort. I imagine this is what the FF14 devs mean when they say something "Won't fit" or that a feature simply "Can't be added". It's not literally impossible, but simply far more effort and risk than it seems.
I think it's important to note that combo plugins are also helpful for accessibility, it's not just about text-to-speech and colorblind modes. SE doesn't need to simplify PvE rotations down to a single button, but they should maybe consider adding an optional setting to condense certain combo strings individually, much like they've already done for certain combo actions that transform into their next step instead of being mapped on two separate buttons. It's why I'm frustrated by things like removing Kaiten from SAM. As a physically disabled gamer, removing Kaiten is not making the job more fun for me, but being able to condense combos would. I like having all these different actions in a rotation, I just don't necessarily think we need separate keybinds for every single one. It's very frustrating to enter my combos in the wrong order when I play SAM, because it's not like I don't know the order. The instructions just got muddled on their way from my brain to my fingertips. It's almost like kinesthetic dyslexia, if that makes sense. I can't really think of a way to describe it to people who don't have my particular form of cerebral palsy, but imagine if you had to think about breathing manually while you were juggling boss mechanics. That's kind of how it feels to play SAM with my fine-motor issues. I have to focus more on precise inputs for combos than most other people would, and this detracts from my ability to react to floor mechanics and other things that go on during a fight.
Color blind mode is a thing I was messing around in menus and found Protanopia, Dueteranopia, and Tritanopia coloring. Granted it did not shift the colors as drastically as your example did. So this seems more like fine tuning than adding in an option.
yeah add voice acting to all story quests and job story quests would really enhance the game. accesibility is also a must. i play 1 handed with an mmo mouse personally.
I brought a friend into the game who couldn't read any of the NPC instructions during the Guildleves, so I got him to install the text-to-speech plugin to read aloud those things so that he could hear it and adjust tactics as someone with better eyesight would have been able to do by reading from the chat box.
I hope they never put a dps meter. I absolutely was a slave to them in WoW so NO! Some of the graphic ones really make the game look nice. FFXIV does show FPS but would love the ping. I do wish we could keep our start screen stay.
i understand both sides of the dps meter argument. honestly i agree wutg Yoshi P, parsing and dps meters even personal only will become toxic there are far to many WoW refugees and other gamers in general that put a very high price on numbers and get either full of themselves or mad/depressed depending on how they do on a fight only in numbers. WoW is toxic AF for having that be a thing at all but FF was built with so much utility in many classes that a meter is just going to cause those jobs to be even less desireable simply because they do not bring the numbers other classes do even if their utility may be irreplaceable. It keeps Job fantasy nice and clean by not having the numbers brought to the conversation. The only numbers that should matter is how many times you get hit/die and how long it took to kill a boss
I agree, i think DPS meters add nothing to the game for the majority of the audience. I can see some niche raid teams wanting it to maximize efficiency but other than that. It only adds a chance to be toxic.
Back in the day I used a mod that added a countdown timer to the companion chocobo in the party list because I got tired of never knowing when my chocobo would disappear in the middle of a FATE, or worse at the very end. I was pleasantly surprised when they finally added it to the UI. I had asked for it before via the suggestions page in settings. I just asked them for all sorts of things and a lot of them have come to pass. The only one I haven't seen yet was the one where I asked them to make it so that we could glamour our companion to look like other animalistic mounts. It would be cool if I could use a gryphon or maybe something as simple as my legacy chocobo as my battle buddy.
@@cutecats532 True, and I have the barding, but it would be fun to be able to use something other than a chocobo. Even if they just copied and pasted the attack animations from the existing monsters that look similar to the mounts, that would be enough for me.
I DONT (cough) use a DPS meter and even I do not want a meter in the game officially. It WILL make people toxic. I understand for hardcore raiders but FF is non-toxic for a reason.
it wouldnt change anything. those of us that use parsers talk shit in our calls or remove someone for doing very very low dmg. if they implement their own and make talking bad on someone bannable hows it any different?
its because is highly moderated and things like being an asshole or ruining other people experience are taken seriously, as they should. thats why ff is non-toxic. it has nothing to do with parsers being official or not. because if they were, being an asshole is still against terms of service. whats more, until the recent shift on the enforcement of their ToS, most ACT bans were from people beings assholes not from people just having it.
While I absolutely understand YoshiP's stance on DPS meters, FFXIV is far from non-toxic. It can be really great! But it still gets toxic, just perhaps in different ways than some other games.
I can relate to physical/magical damage determination. I would think the easiest go to option is to color code the cast bar. Leave it the color it is now for phys, give it a blue or purple color when it's magic. Would handle most skills except for abilities that are straight up insta cast
You know, FF14 is the first MMO I've played more than a couple days, and I've never used add-ons. I mentioned on a video to another content creator that voice support for duties that can be toggled off and on could be helpful, especially if when toggled off, you could get text-to-speech and speech-to-text. But honestly, making the game more disability friendly would be a really good idea. No damage meters or call-out programs. But yeah, talking with people who are colorblind, have poorer vision, have reading disabilities, autism, etc., should actually be YoshiP and crew's first step. Because add-ons in their cases aren't for cheesing the game - they're so they can simply access it.
@@ex0stasis72 Okay, sure - the point is that the terms of service ban ALL third party plugins, even ones that just provide accessibility. And if YoshiP and crew want to integrate tools that are being used by third parties, they should focus on accessibility tools. And, yeah, such tools are out there - and are really good. YoshiP and crew should talk to the providers of such tools and officially onboard them to the game itself, just as they outsource some of the voice acting, music production, etc.
With regards to the minion thing I'll bet that the engineers told him that it was impossible just so they could look like miracle workers whenever they finally got it to work
It's like intentionally adding delays in your code, then removing them later so you can look like you made things way more efficient. I wouldn't be surprised if some of this is just the engineers not wanting to add to their current workload. And that's understandable, but at some point Yoshi P has to realize this is a big problem and dedicate some time to the dev cycle for UI updates or hire more resources to address these issues.
XIVAlexander, having some proper lag compensation so people with high ping can actually play jobs like mch. Can't believe this isn't already in the game.
Thanks for the coverage Zepla. I'll mention what I use, which is a 3rd party copy pasta database called Ditto. It would be also nice if we could export RP/Chat logs to our PC for looking up old information. The log system is already in place too.
The part at the end with the messege from mod devs reminds me of when people hack or break in to a place and that place wants to hire them as security. It's a smart move. I don't know how Square Enix would be able to moderate and ensure volunteers for this purpose are doing it in the games best interest, I feel like there's a risk if they open that door but it could be a smart move if they could do it.
3:30 I love this point. "People might say it's less efficient, but I don't think a game is fun if all it does is push for efficiency." Could not agree more. There's another way of putting it and I see Min-Maxers become guilty of this the most: "Optimize the fun out of a game." You do not need ACT. Period. Is it helpful? Sure. Needed? Absolutely not. If you are curious about clearing a raid damage wise, that's the entire point of Stone, Sky, Sea. If you can clear that, the rest is learning the fight. Simple as that.
The people who actually use act actually want to improve on their own. They want to improve on their rotation/buff usage/pots timer/ect. Its a big reason why they keep doing the same raid over and over again to see higher number up to a certain point. For those people they need ACT. And also stone,sky, and sea is just bad b/c it doesn't count movement throughout the fight and other people party buff ect. You can't tell other people how to play their game by saying "I don't think a game is fun by pushing efficiency" because there always people that do care about pushing damage and seeing actual number and their skill timeline. I personally used act to help me improve A LOT on my rotation and combat skills and it nice to see the improvement across weeks of doing raids that i am getting more cast in or i am getting more uptime. Also anyone using act to harass people is big no no. I just want to state that. And from my experience in PF that i have a lot of cleared this tier. I haven't seen a single person be toxic about dmg in chat/in game about it at least so far...
@@ikillforgood I didn't say that. That quote isn't from me. Look at the the time stamp. The quote is pulled straight from what Yoshi-P was quoted saying.
@@ikillforgood And I get what ACT is used for. It's why I said "useful but not necessary." Also why I said that learning the fight is what's next after knowing you can clear the fight damage-wise. I used to use ACT for the same reasons so I get where you're coming from. I'm just saying that at the end of the day, it's not a manadatory mod for clearing high end content and it's never coming to the game. Yoshi-P has and always will be adamant about that. And so long as that's his stance, then people will get into trouble for using it IF they are very public about it.
As the game evolves, the whole discussion about TOS and Mods/Addons is a great gateway to further improve the game while having the ability to benefit the whole community (PC + PS players)
Wouldn't want to play the game without all the simple tweaks I'm using. Rather eat a ban than lose them. People have been asking for these things for 10 years now, the ui was dated and archaic even way back at release. They've said so many things aren't possible, while mods have been doing them for years. They even said that about the collectible obtained indicator that they just added.
There is a factor of modding doesn't need to have as much quality control as official release. Given I imagine there are some that are above or on par with what SE can put out.
The only thing that frustrates me with the dev team and Yoshi is the constantly CONSTANTLY say 'we can't it's impossible' or 'it's too hard!' Yet random players can toss them out left and right from their laptops and a bit of skill. Prolly shouldn't say that sorta thing when hobbyists are doing the job pretty well without official resources.
Voice acting and housing . For me personally would be a huge help!! The speech bubbles too cause I’m visually impaired. Mannnn these additions would be so so so amazing !
While I get a DPS meter is good for those that want to just improve, let's look at WoW. How often are DPS meters used to shame people, cause people to leave groups in protest, etc. YoshiP is dead on accurate with this, he doesn't want WoW's toxicity.
@@seven2eight2 You don't think people would ask to see parses for certain content? I guess I should state, toxicity through shaming is only one part of the problem, the other is barring entry to content using parses as a means to bar someone. Even if WoW's was "personal" the community would find ways to use it for ill. I mean, I can see someone shaming someone else then being all "show me your parse! prove it!"
@@jtowensbyiii6018 That can happen, and if that really bugs people they shouldn't play MMOs because not everyone is a master at the game. Just the way it is.
I've been asking for chat bubbles since the 1st closed beta of ARR, in the feedback section of each and every closed beta I got into, as well as ever since launch.
Because departments have budgets both in time and money. They also have to implement stuff at least semi-properly. What mods currently are doing, is to hook onto specific events and execute arbitrary code. That is not how you develop, like at all. Idk if you know WoW, but the original designer of the Monk class implemented the roll ability, which had a novel type of movement associated with it, within the designers workspace. It worked, but once the engineer he was working with got their eyes on it, the engineer basically went: "We can't do it that way" and did it properly, in the right places, presumably in part that you can actually use that type of movement on other classes than Monk, without having to use even worse hackjobs. That's the basis of all development environments that have more than a single department.
The full picture is that all of these things are 100% possible for them to do, so they should stop making a bunch of excuses and either say no, not going to happen, or just "we'll look into it" and leave it at that, or even just ignore the question. Too much time to develop? Say that. The fact that YoshiP has said the word "impossible" only to have that thing introduced months later is silly.
@@DFell3 That's absolutely valid criticism, and I tend to agree. Proper communication is key and while they are pretty outstanding in comparison to other AAA titles, they definitely lack in some areas. E.g. YoshiP claiming that Ping has no effect on your ability to play your job. Just wanted to clarify why mods are not necessarily a good argument about the possibility to implement something, outside of using them as a proof of concept. The existence of mods itself however can be a good argument that there is a desire to implement these changes.
This is probably one of the best videos to put Japanese subtitles on, which Yoshida has asked for from content makers.
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Chat bubbles is what i want the most, i really feel like there's a disconnect between your character talking and just talking in a tiny chat box on the side, it's incredibly easy to miss out that someone was addressing you in /say and i imagine people would be a lot more social if they saw people chatting on a visual level like that
This is what has killed my experience for every single MMO ever. I have blanked so many social experiences and come across as rude and ignorant because of the very easy to miss chat system
Honestly, I don't want to see chat bubbles, but I think the current option is if others use this addon you can see them whether you want to or not, right?
@@DreamingVoid This. Otherwise you are going to have chat bubbles over every NPC you try to click on, over the market board, your retainer, etc.
@@DreamingVoid you're assuming it'd be a binary interpretation. My thought would be proximity based; only players within x many alms, or who have targeted you can display speech bubbles by default, with the regular text box remaining intact and functioning as normal.
The user interface is very customizable and tends to have the most favored or recommended default settings when you first log in, but you are encouraged to tweak for your perfect experience. For instance, some people prefer sound to be based on camera position, others on their avatar position in the world. This is critical to your personal experience, but how do you choose which is the default for all players?
/say is more for general speak anyway, if someone was addressing me, id expect it to be a /tell. this isnt to say chat bubbles shouldnt be an option
I really hope they change the house furnishing placement, even though it's lower priority since not everyone has property. I don't use addons, but I seen that one that allows you to move items freely, and it hurts to see how much easier things can be, instead of having to glitch for hours.
o god please
Yes please! And they really need to adjust the item to house size ratio. Especially since they add so many housing items constantly, but no one has the room to use them unless they remove things or just start over.
I saw someone suggest items like 2, 3, or 4 partitions in a set to make a wall or multiple lofts in a set, rather than using a bunch of individual ones.
I mean even with BDTH you still have to glitch for hours sadly on some items.
Yup. I want to do some more fanciful builds myself but glitching a hundred objects properly is a pain in the D, A and Ts all at once.
Wildstar was made in 2014 and you could do this freely in housing. you could even SCALE the furnishing freely. I dont get why they insist on having set scale, not allowing certain items to be set on partitions (but allowed on walls) etc etc. So many ridicilous rules that help no one
I use the text-to-speech mod both to enjoy the story in ARR content, and to get chat thatI otherwise might miss. Other than that, I'd love to see midi device (at least midi keyboard) compatibility/support for Bard music without needing a mod too :)
I'll 2nd and 3rd this.
I personally don't feel the need to use any mods, but text to speech should just be in the game anyways. It's an accessibility feature that should be in the settings just like the colorblind modes and there's not really an excuse for it to not be in the game.
Edit: to add another point to this, at least in the USA (one of the countries FFXIV is distributed) companies are legally responsible for providing accomodations to anyone using their products/services so the fact that SE has gotten away with not providing at least approved 2nd party support for TTS is baffling to me. Then again, it's the same thing as their own ToS, unless someone decides to take them to court over it SE won't be held accountable.
i really need text to speed i have add and reading text is really hard for me i can't enjoy the story due to how fast the text goes automatically so i had to rely for someone read it on a gameplay it's sadness me i wish yoshi p will fix this. makes me really sad i enjoy the story
Don't forget the check out the community lexicon repo for TextToTalk. It'll fix many of the mispronounced names, locations, and acronyms that can be said in the game.
Be good on ps4 when you don't have time too type and get killed by a aoe well typing and need a big fat keyboard that take up your only other plug in for a external hard drive
Chat organising tools such as highlighting the names of specific players, friends, people in friends list groups, etc. The ability to hide emotes from players not on your friends list or outside a whitelist. The ability to highlight your name when it's mentioned in chat, emotes, etc.
Auto-opening the loot menu when new loot is added, and the ability to move/resize the big dialogue box that pops up in duties. Official bard midi or midi keyboard input support. BDO has this! If midi support was official, it would be much easier for them to stop unlicensed songs from being played, which is against the ToS and can lead to legal issues.
As far as shaders go, I feel like that will be much less of a problem once we get the graphical upgrades. It's looking that way at least.
People will always want to make their game unique. I think focusing on GShade is a mistake since there are likely other programs and applications that can do this. Photographers etc use monitor calibrators and people can use them to change screen "colors". I think GShade just makes it easier for the average person who doesn't know these other apps exist.
I would rather they focus on actual in-game things like you mention as well as the ability to resize the in-game chat panels so that it's not gigantic compared to my other UI elements. I would rather there be a sliding scale for UI elements instead of preset choices especially since there seems to be a big jump in options on the lower end (60% and then 80%).
@@melissas4874 Yeah exactly. I mean hell, anyone with an Nvidia graphics card can use their in-built colour settings to do similar things, so it's a bit of a redundant thing to ask for imo.
@@melissas4874 While I do agree that GShade is not as important as adding more customizability to UI elements, it would be nice if some time in the future, there would be a way to give console players the same visual customization that PC players have. I've been using GShade alongside most of the quality of life plugins mentioned in this video since I started playing the game, but I feel bad for some of my console friends who do not have that option.
Consider adding japanese subtitles for easier access for the devs !! could be helpful i think
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Hopefully a bilingual person will add subtitles.
That would be good yeah
How is it possible for a developer in the 21st century not to know English?
@@Tresorthas Yoshida knows English but he's very self conscious about speaking it. He feels he's not very good with speaking English. So the most we usually get in English is his introduction or him saying 'no' or 'yes' if a question or suggestion really gets to him.
Like in America, English is taught in schools but after a certain point, you're not required to take it unless you need it for a job. SE is first and foremost a JAPANESE developer. Most of their games never come to the English speaking world.
Yoshida is also their FIRST dev to insist on speaking directly to the players. Before him, you'd NEVER hear anything from SE unless it's a prepared statement from their translation/marketing teams or a fan translated interview.
There's a reason why in FF11 we joked about a 'JP' button. And that the American forums would ask bilingual players to translate our concerns and bring them to the Japanese forums for us. Otherwise we'd get ignored.
Just the fact that Yoshida is willing to speak to us with a translator sometimes is a HUGE step forward.
The load screen thing would have been nice, I bought endwalker when I started for the pre order earring... and I was immediately taken from the ARR opening to Shadowbringers at the time and then on Endwalker release that and I saw way too much of the trailer by accident..
Yes it would be so cool that it changes depending on what expac you're playing and can mitigate spoilers, i mean come on why show EW cinematic when you're still at SB XD
What pluggin is that? I wanna have the ARR or HSW main menu theme over the ones we have now.
@@RenevousAssasin you should be able to change that from one of the options on the main menu. i dont know if it'll stick though unfortunately so maybe a plugin is needed
This type of video is really important. The devs DO want to know what players want the most as well, and content creators that have a rapport with the devs are a good filter for them I think
@@DreamingVoid Fun fact: ping problems from machinsits have been reported since HW, with heavy feedbacks during SB, leading to people not being able to play the job. 6 years later the only answer we got was "We didnt know" and it's still the only job that don't have charges, despite asking them since HW/SB. So yeah they prefer to download a mod because they didnt give a damn
@@glemoo Yup they said they tested with simulated environment and they didnt find anything (which is fun because I remember people having quotes of yoship saying the jobs works with 200 ping back in SB), asking then to post on the forum so they can have more infos which disregard the 4 to 6 years of feedback actually given in the forums before, because on the "main" post, lot of people reposted old thread about it, which were never acknowledged and on top of that, despite being told during the media tour, machinist is still the only one without charges to ease the issue.
colorblind mode NEEDS to target visually important stuff(quest zone on the map is invisible to my friend) not the game world and chars. it should make the gameplay visually clear without fucking up how everything looks
It's invisible to me too. I tried using colour blind mode and it made the world so unbelievably ugly I turned it back off and just use a website to tell me where to go if I can't find it
I genuinely think no one on their entire team is colour blind, given how hard to see things can be. The last boss of the new dungeon is a great example; when bolts of fabric come down I can't tell them apart so I've no idea where the safe spot is 😭
@@thewittyusername they definitely have fallen short on the color blind mode things. But for that last boss, if it helps, one color has three knots and the other only has two so that's another way you can tell where the safe spot is
@@skittykay I had no idea. Thank you!
A lot of the mods talked are very interesting, and i would have asked for them. I would add :
- Something that keep track of the chatlog. when i'm RPing it's hard to keep track of what have been said, and i lately turned to copy paste all the text manually and it's complicated
- bring back the ears/ hats and use the mods existing to Hrothgar and Viera
- i wish some of the emotes could stay. resting face, reading, eating, hugging. And i wish we could choose the way some emote works. I don't want to /feintdeath when i'm lala because it's just ridiculous. And it's sad, considering i've paid for this emote. I notice they've released the sitting and the staying resting pose, you can choose, so if they could do the same to face (like, i have a friend who's character is /confidentsmile all the time, my character is more on /worried, another is often showing his anger...)
- I wish you could do raid24 in exploration mode. I want to visit Dalmasca, and not while fighting
I know, all of this is for RP, and it's not the majority of player that does but that's what i would love.
I love that Yoshida's answer to add-ons is basically "I'm sorry you feel that you need mods to enjoy the game, I promise to improve the UI so you won't feel like you need them anymore"
Yoshi-p is too precious, must protect
pretty sure he meant, “ok fine we will update the ui so stop posting about UI improvement on the forum”
Yeah, it's great. Now let's see if they actually do anything before getting too happy about it!
His answer is usually "impossible" "massive server strain" "too much dev/QA time", then adding it a couple years later.
@@DFell3 probably waiting for the technology to catch up. What's unavailable today can be available in a year or so.
@@DFell3 well... that just means they had free dev time and they managed to reduce the server strain.
I can easily agree with every single one of these, even the ones that don't directly affect me. My opinions on parsing won't change, so I won't comment on that, but fixing housing item placement and adding something that differentiates Magical and Physical Damage would be massive. It's shocking how many of these are just simple small UI updates as well, goes to show which aspects of the game haven't aged too gracefully.
UI rots. Straight up, as a piece of software grows, the UI for it naturally gets worse if it is not maintained.
The issue with parsing is that establishing endgame content with clear dps checks and prohibiting parsing is stupid. People exaggerate how much it affects players in casual WoW content and if someone parses subpar in kill attempts in high end content, Partys should be allowed to replace this player.
I would appreciate more functions for gpose, like being able to change poses and expressions of characters but also npcs. Also appealing shaders for the overall game.
I have seen no one ask for this (> ' ')> fix UI so we can interact with multiple tabs without getting the error. For examples....casting glamours, accepting party invites. Moving items around/selling purchasing items. Search feature for items would also be amazing 👏
I'm not sure if you're talking about something else, but there is a general item search feature:
typing "/isearch partial or full item name" (no quotations) into your chat bar brings up a list of items matching what you searched for in your inventory including your retainers, saddlebag, etc.
@@morsecodex They're talking about the error that pops up whenever you're in a menu from an interactable, or non typical menu. Something along the lines of "You cannot do this action while busy." First example I can think of is the glamour window from the character screen or a lot of vendor windows that lock you down.
I think this will not happen, a friend that works as a programmer said once to me, that they programm that so when you do "critical" stuff like buy and sell they lock you so you can not brake the transaction. There are a lot of experience especially in MMOs when you do A simultaneously with B the game register for e.g. not that you bought an Item. It's a clunky and simple way to avoid to deal with that problems :/
There is a really good Defcon Video where a person who used glitches or Hacks in MMOs for 20 years to make money from nothing explains some of the technics he used.
@@morsecodex idk where we're supposed to learn that except from other people so maybe we need a function guide that tells us that. Unless that's already there.
@@zxcvbnmasdfghjkl3377 I am referring to the very last sentence, where they said an item search feature would be good.
This video aged very well. Today as for patch 6.48 most of the QoL suggestions here are implemented, like the job icons, type of damage icon, and so on. Let's hope devs are really taking this as a checklist
Desperately want all of those QoL/accessibility things to be added. My ADHD brain would personally love either TTS or just flat out more voiced things in the game, especially the dialogue that pops up during duties/raids/etc because I always miss it even though it's in the middle of the screen since I'm busy, you know, doing combat. No idea why ALL of that isn't voiced especially when it links into abilities the bosses are using sometimes???
On a completely different note I'd love to see something that lets us have more UI elements only show when hovered over or being actively used if we chose to. A delayed fade-out for the chatbox after the most recent message, etc, so when we're just wandering around the world our unused UI disappears and lets us appreciate the view. Right now I just have a toggle for my "MSQ-mode" UI to turn off all unnecessary components but it's annoying to have to switch back and forth manually.
I saw an option that creates a glow on the edge of your screen that basically increases/decreases based on where noise is coming from. A streamer said they would use it in fights where you had to be able to see the direction of some boss ability - so the light or glow would increase from the noise of the boss's ability on the left or right of his screen and he'd know to run the opposite way. So I think there are some good items in the options, but nobody knows how to use them or what they would be good for in this regard.
Gatherbuddy made fishing actually fun and less rng feeling. It didn't add anything, just recontextualised what was in the game already but actually pushed me to get dragons deep done.
I want more audio feedback from certain skills. I would love more abilities to have unique audio tells when abilities are ready or at maximum charge
14:16 - in character configuratino you can uncheck the option "hide party list when solo". so you can see your shields when you are not in a party
wow thats huge, cant believe I didnt know that was a thing (and apparently others dont either lol)
13:45 This just changed my life, seeing your job change icons. Until now, I had NO clue you could set the soul crystal pics in macros. I'm now changing every single one of my job change buttons to their soul crystals. THANK YOU!
I'd want all of these worked into the base game, but these are what I'd want most (other than chat bubbles):
- being able to increase the size of your own debuffs relative to party debuffs
- more party frame customizations; why can't I swap party buffs/debuffs to the other side?
- built-in mouseover support for targeted abilities; could have a toggle under character settings; frees up macros & queuing issues
Personally, I just want them to update the themes. Would love if they could implement MateriaUi as a base option.
True! Skeuomorphism died in modern UI design in about 2013, about a year before ARR released. FFXIV UI is the epitome of skeuomorphism, making it feel old and outdated.
@@ex0stasis72 hyper minimal flat color uis look awful and cheap. Like there's no style or soul.
Yes MaterialUI is a must have! Can't play without it honestly.
@@ex0stasis72 I like that look. Do extra themes, not full reworks.
@@Sammysapphira Wow, you must hate every computer and phone you've been using for years now. They all dropped the UI style to make UI look like physical objects with texture.
I got one that FFXIV needs to do, eliminate the glamor dresser and use WoW's "learnable" glam so once you collect a piece you don't need to save it. Tie it into glamor plates too.
Yes please
Then how do I dye a piece permanently? It sounds like everything would be an armoire piece.
@@cutecats532 It could be made to retain the dye color until changed. The "learned" Tmog system in WoW is QOL for sure.
That would be very much better. Space has been getting limited for many people I imagine.
I just don’t understand why they cap you at 400 in the dresser. Makes 0 sense. Also just is shit to have to use glamour prisms. Heavily convoluted and flawed system that could be made so easy
RE: UI Theme
Imagine the bright blue UI theme but with the classic Final Fantasy four-corner RGB controls. Get that old nostalgia feeling from customizing your FFVII windows with all sorts of weird colors.
This is such a great video - thank you Zepla. One of the reasons I'm so invested in this game is, as a disabled gamer - controller support/integration is of paramount importance to me. FFXIV does this well - but it's not perfect, nothing ever is/will be. But I can play this game A LOT easier due to controller input with my disability. MKB with dexterity/claw hands in near impossible at times; that's not to say it's easy on controller - but it's more accessible, for me. But you're right - accessibility should never be an afterthought, and it requires lived-experience input to ultimately be successful. Again, thank you for this video and highlighting this, just a bit.
All of these sound really amazing as a console player, especially one who enjoys decorating. I had to give friends access to my personal to help me just put up regular lofts, no glitches or floating or anything just trying to put the fuckers up
It's kind of baffling to me that they are saying that it's incredibly difficult to implement damage types and job icons next to names when some random guy can do it in a couple hours.
Because they have to do it by changing the games code. The add ons just add something on top or interfer with what the game is telling the computer or something. And SE has to do the quality assurance and be accountable to the people overseeing development, they also have to be payed and they're working on other things so they have to prioritize resources and time. This is different from someone doing it as a hobby who isn't necessarily accountable to anyone.
Happy to see TTS mentioned. I've met so many people with dyslexia who play the game, and TTS really helps us.
Yes. TTS and dyslexic-friendly fonts.
Also SSS is a very half-baked solution to improving your skill and doesn't make sense for the most part. Fly to Idyl/Rhalgr/Eulmore/Radz > pick the fight that you want to test on > oh you didn't gear sync yourself for older fights? Too bad > never coming back ever again.
Training dummies at various locations and even housing on the other hand for the most part is perfect if you want to build in that muscle memory but the downside is the fact that you don't know what you're doing is right.
Just add a min ivl/character sync option to SSS then?
@@Orphan_of_Kos_or_some_say_Kosm Fun fact: it happens often that SSS can't be beaten by certain jobs even with 10 ilvl more. It happened for SB's rdm or shb's machinist and others that i can't remember. Plus a 3 min fight without mecanics isn't representative: you can squeeze more ressources in the 3 minutes that you'd keep for a 4 min burst normally, leading to an artificial higher dps, crits and DH have way more impact and for jobs relying on high burst with low filler dps you will always have the same kill time because you will kill during the last burst. What we want to know is if a fight has multiple disengage where you can't target the boss: do i do better if i keep my burst before, after, how do I use my buffs: you have no idea if you are doing good or not, which lead to enrages: having DPS CHECKS in a game where you can't check your dps is dumb. Most DF people don't do half the dps they should with their level and you don't need to have a parser to know it, you can see it just by looking at how they move and play. Where ACT is useful is for the high end duties where you need to know where that 1k dps is missing from.
I wish they would put the daily reset time in the Timers window.
Not a UI related thing but I wish they made Calamity Salvager accesible through the Glamour Dresser, kind of like how it already connects to the Armoire. I wouldn't mind it if it costs gil to use.
And please let me adjust the volume settings after entering a Mahjong match.
I just turn down the volume on my computer if it won't let me.
Daily reset timer is the same every day though so no need for reminder. Just set in-game clock to server time or local time
@@anggasurbakti8269 It's not that easy though. Daylight savings makes it confusing. Especially because it the dates of entering and exiting daylight savings might be different in your country vs the country of your server vs the countries of your friends in the server. If the Timers window can tell me I have 12 tribal quests remaining, it sure as hell can and should tell me when the daily reset is. It already has the weekly reset so like please don't make excuses for something that should be there.
I have huge issues focusing on things and will not notice myself reaching low health.. What helped me a lot was a plugin where I could put on a warning sound when I had reached a set amount of %.. And it saves my ass a lot.
Well that's cheating ,why dont you just get good?
@@raphwalker9123 Really don't think thats cheating it just gives you a heads up, a lot of people are struggling with this even the more advanced players i know are complaining about it and mant many other features ''getting good'' doesn't always apply..
@@xReaghan it is cheating because the rest of us dont have that luxury,why not take it a step further and have alarms for when a aoe is about to pop or when somone in the party dies
The stuff from 11:14 onwards, about the improvements in high ping environments, is extremely important. This game has servers in very few regions (when compared to similar games), so any and every improvement that could be made in regards to this has to be considered. This is no simple request, but it's nevertheless needed, both for the existing players and in order for the game to grow.
Of course, the ideal solution would be to have servers in more regions, but I have no hopes for this to happen. In the Live Letter about the future of the game, they didn't talk about getting servers in more regions.
Wish there were a US Central datacenter. Sucks that everything's on the west coast when a lot of players are clear across the country.
Zepla is taking one for the community. My your buns rest well nested.
Great video. I dont know if i missed it but three features i would also love are:
- customizable cast bars (like removing the art, text, etc),
- hiding job gauges when out of combat and
- mouseover functionality for abilities
For some tiny personal input, for the love of god SE, I found out a couple days ago that one tweak in one plugin was to disable targeting via the right mouse button. This is something I've wanted almost since I started playing because it's easy to accidentally target something while trying to move the camera repeatedly in combat.
I've gone through official channels and encouraged likeminded people to weigh in. When it's way more convenient to set up and use said plugin than it is to even suggest that tweak for inclusion in the actual game, people are obviously going to go that route instead of trying to give feedback.
SE needs to open communication about these features and welcome input. Most people are just trying to make the game more enjoyable to play without hurting integrity or hurting other people.
You can also simply fix that issue but not have your cursor over anything/anyone when moving your camera. That's a very miniscule issue that can easily be fixed by the player just paying attention to their cursor. If you tend to lose your cursor, you can make it bigger or even change the color to see it better.
Yoshi has always been open to input. So much has changed in the game because of player input. And they're planning to implement stuff from mods because of input. I don't see how that's not welcoming? Usually during liveletters, you can talk in chat (attempt to lol, it goes so quickly), and hope they catch your question or submit questions/suggests that they'll respond to for Q&A liveletters. But it would be impossible to have a direct conversation and the suggestion box is probably over flowing.
@@Mouse-go3gc That's such a strange thing to say to minimize and dismiss someone's experience with a problem LMFAO. Why do you need to pay attention to where the cursor is every single time you want to rotate the camera for a better viewing angle?. Dodging aoes and also gotta dodge player models with the cursor apparently. Why does the right click have to select a player or object anyways? The solution it's literally just a checkbox option in the settings menu. But I suppose if they implemented that you wouldn't be happy because it doesn't affect you and now you won't be able to berate this guy tell em to git gud and flame him and learn 2 play, right?
Yes, I don't use mods but I would love this, since I use my mouse to move, a holdover from playing WoW. :-/
Only Reason I downloaded simple tweaks at first.
@@Mouse-go3gc That's one of the most loser takes I've ever seen in this whole discussion. Not sure if you're trolling.
I know this isn't the main point of the video, but for the person at 14:10 whoever that may be, there actually IS a way to "see shields" when not in a party. If you go to Character Configuration > UI setting > Party List, there's an option labeled "Hide party list when solo" and if you uncheck that, it'll show your name in the top left (or wherever your party list is) even if you're not in a party.
But now to the main point of the video, I agree with what the plugin dev said at the end where, most of the plugins I've heard about/seen make them out of wanting the game to improve, not to harm or undermine the work that SE has done for the game. They do it out of their passion for the game, and see something that SE might not see and go "hey maybe we can improve on that to help out more people"
The ones about more UI/HUD customization are gold, and I’ll add one to those - an ability to “line break” party lists the same way you can your hot bars.
While healing, I’m targeting people with Ctrl and 1-4,Q-R, and I can’t tell how often the 5th party member have got late heals due to me not clearly seeing if they’re the 4th (Ctrl+4) or 5th (Ctrl+Q) party member. Cognitive mapping that column to a line is a mental step that would be nice to not have.
I just click on their names and heal simples,
@@raphwalker9123 That's not really a solution. It's an entirely different action flow. Valid, but irrelevant in the context of the other thing.
@@raphwalker9123 wtf is wrong with you? A hotkey is always better
@@jtowensbyiii6018 Hotkeys are for nerds
@@jtowensbyiii6018 No, hotkeys are not always better. Not saying they're bad or anything like that, but they are not objectively always better. Especially for targeting.
The summoner add ons are awesome and since we have full sized primals, it would be cool if we could summon other primals as like a glamour, but after the more important stuff like the UI.
I can almost guarantee more primals are coming when they add level 100 stuff. I think that was the point of some of the changes.
@@Willias I think they should have had 3 primals for setting up bahamut and 3 others for phoenix
the main thing that killed the plans for that i think was that square knew everyone hated summoner (except the then summoner mains) becuase it was a WoW lock and not a ff summoner. and so dropped any support summoner was getting from arr all the way until EW with the rework. you can see when they first implimented the egi glams waaaay back in arr they never touched it again (even cut ramuh egi they were working on at the time). so hopefully with smn how it is now we will see some glam options but i worry the stupid high prices they will make them in the mogstation with how overpriced everything already is (7$ for a simple emote, and bland mounts being 30-40) i wouldnt expect a primal vfx set from square to go for anything less than 60$ minimum...
thankfully the modding community has great smn vfx mods and someone even recently discovered how to add voice lines vfx mods which works great for the primals that have them
I almost didn't bother watching this, but I am SO glad I did - this was one of the best videos I've ever seen. I really hope this gets a LOT of attention from the devs. Great job, Zepla!
Great content. One thing: Shields can be seen already in your party UI. You can set it in the game menu to always display the party UI even if not in a party. There you can see the shields.
There's a bunch I want in the game officially including what was already mentioned in the video, I'm not going to say what the plugins are called though they will be grouped by the addon
-Option to show battery (if available) in the Server Info Bar, good for portable devices
-More chat tabs
-Allow locking the framerate based on current activity, uncapped during combat, duty, cutscenes, interactions, locked otherwise, good for portable devices
-Mark whether you have done a roulette yet in the list so you don't have to click it to see
-Show an icon in the duty finder next to duties that give Wondrous Tails stickers (and if you have already done it)
-While most of the functionality is already in the game now, it still doesn't say on Faded Orchestrion Rolls if you have the Orchestrion Roll it crafts
-Conditional UI Changes, with multiple layers (small UI changes but keeps the main layout), conditions, layouts
-e.g. Main Layout, and then layers for Healing, Tanking, Non-Combat Jobs, Pet Jobs, Instances, PVP, Controller.
-Allow customising the Job Bars (Simple ones at least)
-Automatically make backups of settings
-Option to show debuffs that you have put on the enemy on their nameplate
-Option to auto dismount when using actions
-Option to enable mouse over for actions
-Option to auto lock action bars when entering combat
-Allow switching jobs by left clicking/pressing X (PS) on the job in the Classes/Jobs tab (Desynth window moved to right click/Square)
-Option to hide the mouse cursor after X seconds of inactivity, great for cutscenes
-Option to open the commendation window automatically
-Option to open loot window automatically when items are added
-Add extra commands to be used with macros, such as toggling Gamepad Mode, and Legacy Movement
-Option to Sync Crafter/Gatherer bars
-Show accurate venture times
-Adjust equipment positions for symmetry
-Allow locking more windows (loot, dialogue box, etc)
-Allow customising cast bar (hiding casting text for example)
-Option to show combo timer
-Default to max when selling triple triad cars
-Allow tweaking the minimap (hiding zoom buttons for example)
-Allow moving of the text notifications that show in the middle of the screen
-Allow customising the parameter bar (hiding MP bar for jobs that don't use them for example)
-Remember sorting of the Titles menu
-Show % on the XP bar
-Show gil in the inventory
-Allow Nameplates to hide under certain conditions (not in party, full HP, etc)
-Allow filtering out parts of chat to be less cluttered (X has been glammed to Y spam when changing jobs for example)
-Allow NPC chat bubble text to also show in the NPC chat log
-Option to show current zone in the Server Info Bar
-AST: Draw becomes Play when a card is drawn
-BLM: Ley Lines becomes Between the Lines when Ley Lines is Active
-FSH: Cast becomes Hook while fishing | Fishing abilities change to their Spear Fishing equivalents while underwater
Ooo nameplates hiding at full HP would be incredible. The triple triad cards autofilling to max and further customizations of cast bar and minimap too.
@@Rhodair Pretty sure nameplates hiding at full HP is already an option.
I wouldn't have thought much about the text to speech before, but now that I have brought my Father into FFXIV I think it could be really helpful. He has a hard time with reading and has mentioned multiple times that he prefers the voiced cut scenes. It would be great to see some of these changes.
I've been QA on an MMO for a WHILE now and I agree with the points about overwhelming QA. I really could see it becoming a snowballing situation where development just keeps getting more and more delayed because of edge case issues for these new features being discovered constantly.
That and I wouldn't be surprised if the 1.0 spaghetti code would make their jobs 1000000000 times harder too
EDIT: Also on Yoshida being unaware of ping issues, I buy it. Its super unlikely that a test environment would be able to accurately simulate high ping. There are tools for it, obviously, but as with all things in a test environment it rarely actually compares to the real thing
But that has to do with the dev cycle not making room for QoL improvements. It's not like QA cares whether those features are in or not, they just want to sign off on whatever they have to sign off before the deadline. Using QA as an excuse is dumb. That's a software development cycle issue.
And for high ping simulation, there are a ton of tools where you can intentionally throttle your connection or make packet delays. Testing against high ping is not really rocket science, especially these days. But who knows what if any debug tools they actually give QA.
Hell, they wouldn't even need to do setup for high ping or setup a test environment. Just have their QA testers play on EU server with a few classes and record doing the same rotation against playing on JP. That's how players in the wild noticed it.
There is no 1.0 spaghetti code, 2.0 uses an entirely new engine. And it was also confirmed during the press event for Endwalker. Now, 2.0 spaghetti code, that is another story...
@@HalfLifeHalfDead Thanks for the correction! And also thanks for doing it in a polite way.
I'm just trying to show off that QA, and especially QE, is a bit more complicated than its given credit for ya know? Theres still a lot of people who just say "Nah just make them play on a live server, ez pz" or "Ur wrong theres tools for that" lmao
@@BiscottoPlays Some things for sure can be complicated to simulate, but ping/network testing is very baseline testing for games. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure Playstation and Xbox have tools to let you simulate that on dev builds and PC there's a ton of programs that can be used to simulate high ping. You don't even need to do anything else besides install the program and put in the settings or use a preset. I feel bad for you if the company you work for doesn't even have that. And if Square Enix doesn't have that either, shame on them.
Live server testing is also pretty common too. Sometimes in multiplayer games you'll see a group of strange looking players, there's a non-zero chance that is a QA team live testing network mode.
@@24hr-Gaming When new features are added QA has to test all of what was added, plus an entire RC cycle worth of testing that covers every function and facet of the game in at least some capacity. So merely adding chat bubbles would require a chat bubbles test in WIP, to confirm the features working. Then again in RC. Alongside that one measly RC test would be a full smoke test. Login checks for all platforms, a test of the glamour system, raids, dungeons, trials, ultimates, NPC dialogue, NPC pathing, levelling up, abilities working as intended, particle systems working as intended, etc etc. Where theres smoke, theres fire after all.
And thats just off the top of my head, i'm not a SE employee so i'm sure theres more than just that. But even then thats a nightmarish amount of RC QA work for a small patch release.
As for your point on throttle tools. Yup they exists, but as you mentioned theres no way to know what tools are given. Its sad but true to say that adding new tools is always a last minute thing because of the manhours it uses to train staff to use that tool. But I do agree that getting a lag box in wouldn't be too hard. They'd have to confirm any findings with the tool in a live environment too though, which can take a while.
Tis a thorough job, QA
14:16 there is a setting you can turn on to always display the party bar even when playing alone. So there is a way you can tell if you have shield even when not in a party
So many of these answers SE's given to questions about these features in the past feel like either lazy cop outs or some SERIOUS spaghetti code shenanigans. Honestly, how is it possible that a multi yen company like SE can't change some colours or add an icon to a damned nameplate?
Probably a mix of spaghetti code and not having the time to do it, especially the last couple years with covid have been awful on the team.
Their engine did not support those features though, check documentary about 1.0 about it. That's why they upgrade them continuously but some feature would probably still impossible.
The thing I want (aside from literally everything in this video):
When I inspect an item, the tooltip should tell me where it comes from. If I see someone with a nice glam I want to copy, how nice would it be if it told me the dungeon/raid/vendor the gear comes from
@@DreamingVoid Adding this to the tool tip wouldn't remove the option of looking it up on the net, and this absolutely can be done in a way that works well.
Imo the homescreen should default to the expansion you are currently playthrough AND you should be able to set it to the one you want once you're caught up.
I would love Chat Bubbles and Loading screen art. I've "seen" a mod that adds artwork of areas to serve as something to look at while you're loading into the area and it's nice to see official art of the areas too.
I just don't want to see people optimize the fun out of FF14 like we did with WoW. All of the extra information that can be gathered from combat addons is the first step to that end.
As for all of the QoL features/cosmetic features, the solution should be for SE to improve their own game, rather than rely on third party developers to do it for them like Blizzard.
Yeah I trust the devs with this one to know what they think fits, we saw it with things like teamcraft and how they ended up adding some features in game like practice crafting and recipe lists, as well as in game alarms for gathering.
You are my most favorite FFXIV Content Creator. Im so thankful that you are still around and that the cruel things which happened in your home country didn't take you from us.
We love you! Always stay with us. You are the light that keeps FFXIV alive for me.
I may or may no longer use these, but I would love to see:
- MaterialUI: Makes your UI icons pretty
- DelvUI for party frames: You can make it look like ElvUI and Grid (healer party frame mod in WoW))
- Glamaholic: Let you save unlimited glam plates as a template (in-game) which you can then load and unload your glam plates (saves so much time if you have more than 20 glams)
- Chat bubbles
The glam plates one would be even better in-game, because you wouldn't need to pay the dyes every time.
Mouseover - if there would be a toggle where spells can become mouse over compatible without having to use macros.
Waymarks - shouldn't be limited to 5 but 1-2 waymarks per instance.
Loot/Commendation - option to automatically open the loot/commendation window rather than clicking it.
Targetting - option to limit how many yalms tab targetting will cycle through
Chat - randomly use different colour of people's names in chat rather than having the same colour for everyone in that Alliance/Party/LS/CWLS
For loot/commendation, so many people instantly leave after a dungeon or raid finished. Making these open automatically will make them potentially use mods that block the popup to open automatically
I agree with Yoshi on parsers though, it just turns the whole game into a number fest
yeah fuck people that want to self improve. if you want to be casual just turn off parsers. ban people that use them as a means to gatekeep or bully. incredibly simple.
If a developer tells you something is impossible, 9 times out of 10 that actually translates to "Yeah thats really not worth the trouble right now."
I've been on both ends of that more than a few times lol
Honestly, I played Overwatch for 5 years, and one thing keeping me from going back is the scoreboard they have in the Overwatch 2 beta. I had my experience ruined by toxic players when I was learning a dps. Sure, my kills weren't amazing, but I was pushing the cart constantly, and the game had just launched. That's not the only toxicity I experienced because of kill count. Probably why I became a support main, because my kills didn't matter then. When I played WoW, I experienced the same toxicity with DPS meters. I'm a casual player, and I've had to be for the past 12 years due to carpal tunnel and cubital tunnel syndromes. I can't play at mythic+ levels in a normal dungeon, and that's the level of play that community often expects. I agree with Yoshi P. that scoreboards/dps meters just breed toxicity in games. I hope the policy remains the same, for the sake of casual players like me.
p.s. SE, please add all unlockable hairstyles, plus hats, to Hrothgar and Viera. That's the main "mod" that I want implemented.
I feel dps meters in a training capacity might be good to have, but scoreboards in dungeons have people reserving loot for those who do the most dps which can sometimes result in only the top few getting all the gear and everyone else has to tag along and hope they get the loot before the raid group moves on.
A very mature and insightful discussion on mods and addons. Love the content Zep!
I just want helmets and hats on my Hrothgar.
Thank you so much for heavily emphasizing the accessibility issues! I’m hard of hearing and it’s been difficult to remedy this. I also hope you are doing well!
One of the interesting things I've heard about parsing was from asmon. They had spent all day wiping, and then he got fed up and turned of something that allowed people to compare their parse to the party, and that run they cleared it. I think they're a good, innocent feature, but they frequently push people to act differently, and play intentionally worse to hit those slightly larger numbers, regardless of the cost to the party and ultimately the player base.
Might be the parser just helped them focus more on what they were doing but idk anything about them
I think people severely underestimate how much a parser changes the mentality and perspective of a player. Especially new ones. Regardless of whether or not you think they should be added, one thing you can't argue is that you can't just add a parser to the game as it is now and expect no negative changes. ALL of the content over the years until this day has been designed assuming that players' attention will be on certain parts of the screen.
@@cutecats532 The opposite: they kept getting killed because the parser distracted them, so when they turned it off they started dodging properly and cleared.
@@cutecats532 if we were talking abt Asmon's story, then they kept playing risky, greeded too much to increase their parse. When he told them to turn it off they immediately cleared.
They can just make it generic. Only show your own personal dps with no leaderboard or only show total cumulative party damage when you wipe.
Thanks for featuring me in the video Zepla!
Been using DPS meters since forever, I've never been toxic over it. It's annoying that people seem to think everybody who wants them is toxic.
As a former wow player. Yes not everyone will be toxic but a very loud minority exists.
Would love one just for personal improvment but eh
It is more the toxic people will make it really bad. It isn't too hard to use it for improvement for yourself and friends without mentioning it in any public game channels.
I don't think all people using DPS meters are toxic, that's not the problem. However, it's been proven in just about every single MMO out there, that DPS meters are the single most common source of toxicity. As long as there's this "1st rule of DPS meter is you don't talk about DPS meter" policy, it's more or less OK.
Just think about it. You have a bad day. You have a DPS meter. You see one player is doing bad DPS. You say it, just this once, just because you have a bad day. Here you are, toxicity, supported by the DPS meter (I'm not saying the DPS meter caused it, your bad day did, but the DPS meter helped to actually be toxic). If a DPS meter was built into the game and only 0.01% of the players would make inappropriate comments about DPS from time to time for any reason, toxicity would go through the roof.
Also, I think, a DPS meter on screen in real time is utterly useless. The only real value of it is to be able to bark at the poor guy on the bottom of that meter to let off some steam when you're annoyed for some reason, which is not useful at all. What is useful, however, is some good analysis tools outside the duty to gauge and optimise yourself. (OK, there's one scenario where a live DPS meter could be useful: to determine whom to raise first when things go south in a PUG)
Some suggestions:
1. ESO has a cool solution: when you start attacking a target dummy, the game automatically starts recording. When the dummy "dies", it shows you a summary of your DPS in the chat as system message. It's a great way to measure yourself and optimise your build and rotation.
2. There's a duty recorder in FFXIV. I've actually never tried it, so I can't say how useful it is. However, the concept of recording a run and analysing it afterwards has some great potential (in fact, it's what the popular 3rd party tools do). In 3 years of FFXIV, I've only once seen a dialog "Player X wants to record this duty, do you agree?" - great, it's even opt-in. :) It's probably useless in its current form, otherwise, more people would use it. But the foundation is there, SE just has to make it useful. ;)
@@raffaelherzog5098 Live DPS meters are useful for deciding who to give astro cards to, who to dance partner, who to give dragon eyes, it's also useful to just get on-the-spot feedback about your performance, so you can adjust accordingly on the spot instead of waiting a whole instance timer before you can sit down and see what happened. I use it all the time when doing savage/extreme content, and at worst it's a non-factor that causes no hindrance, and at best it tells me if I'm underperforming so I can change my gameplay on the spot (particularly valuable on healers since it tells me how much I'm overhealing).
Regarding the toxicity argument, it is true that there is toxicity born from parsing, but it's very important to make the distinction between parsing and harassing. There is a very obvious, black and white line between simply using a parsing or even mentioning it, and using it to bully and harass someone, crossing that line should be the point of concern and banning.
@@raffaelherzog5098 I mean Yoshi P talked about situations where someone hasn't played for months and queues into a dungeon and is hassled over it. In that case you can just limit it to being viewable in high end duties and just show personal dps or even total party dps. That way it's impossible to single anyone out. There's definitely compromises if he's worried about people being hassled over it. Plus, the harassment policy is already extremely broad so people who are nasty will end up reported anyway.
PVP at the end already shows you total damage done and K/D/A and PVP in general is way more of a competitive environment, yet I haven't heard of any complaints about people being upset about it.
The shield indicator on health bar is a must. As a new player, it took me too long to understand how shields work without any clues on the health bar.
The debuff one is kinda already in the game. It doesn't make it larger, but you can make it so only your debuffs are shown. It's in Character Configuration > UI Settings > HUD. Scroll down to Targets and select: "Display only detrimental effects you inflict."
That way you don't have to worry about confusing your debuffs with someone else's.
Except that would also hide the mug debuff from someone else playing ninja which is something that you would want to be visible.
but you do want to see other people debuff, its really important to help sync debuffs and avoid overwriting.
Here's my thoughts:
I definitely agree with the housing ideas. Glitching things to float is a pain with a mouse, and almost impossible with a controller. I was able to do it once, but it took me a couple of hours just to float one item, and I haven't been able to do it since, but I'd love to have things on top of the lofts we have in-game; at least let them be considered a solid surface so I can put things on top of them.
Accessibility optIons would be amazing. I have a tough time reading the font they use for the numbers, and all 2, 5, 6, 8, and 9s all look similar to me. The ability to change the font to a few preset options would be immensely helpful, and an option for larger cooldown numbers would seriously help. Sure, it's there if you mouse over, but that isn't available for controller players. I also think a text-to-speech accessibility option would definitely help, especially for those of us with issues like ADHD or dyslexia, who find it hard to read a lot of text; while I'd love the whole thing to be voiced, I can see how that wouldn't be particularly feasible, especially with the voice acting for ARR being different from the rest of the game.
UI modularity is a great idea. Separating HP and MP the way you can separate buffs, debuffs, and "other" would be great, since all the non-caster classes (plus PLD and DRK) don't even use it.
As awful as this whole fiasco has been it’s nice to have some light shine on the areas of the UI that are lacking and why people feel the need to use plugins to fix it.
I really like that you are talking about this matter in calm and very constructive way. Others did not.
There isn't a colorblind option on the ps4/ps5 versions I would really appreciate it if they added it!!!!!
Another thing the ps version really needs is a way to transfer HUD layouts between characters!!!!
I think some things, like chat bubbles for example, were left out because the ps3 UI could only support a limited number of elements, which is why we didn't have party mp/tp bars. I'm also curious if there are any limitations the ps4 is putting on the game now.
I just came back from trying out LOTRO and one of the things that actually amazed me was a TOGGLE-ABLE CHAT BUBBLE. Literally very immersive!
@@ann._.skz21 Lotro wasn't on PS3. Not that it's an excuse now: when PS3 support was dropped, we got the party MP bars. We should get chat bubbles too.
Honestly, I think they should consider having an API for mods, and simply exclude whatever they do not wish to be altered from the API. If they don't want any combat addons, don't include any combat related data in the API for example.
I think they're wanting to actually add them into the game for the fairness and accessibility for playstation players also; rather than only catering to PC players.
No. One of the best things about ffxiv is that you don't need mods. If they allow it then there's no way the game won't end up being designed around them, making them necessary.
Then you'll still have console players that wouldn't have access to any of these mods. Also it would disincentivize them to implement these mods on their own because players can do it themselves. For free. So they just need so get a couple of devs to specifically focus on stuff community wants/needs for a couple of months and problem solved.
No, just no. The Dev already states that mods are against ToS. Having an API for mods which mean change of ToS.
They current take on the mod-user are "we can't tell you are using mod if you just keep it to yourself and leave no hard proof. But if someone give us evident, you better watch your arse".
And frankly, if you have problem with the game's quality, complain with the Dev. FFXIV's dev teams are keen on updating the game and its QoL
@@ProtossOP Exactly!
ability to hide minions, chocobos, etc specifically. Less rendered objects makes it easier on a person's machine. There is a plugin that does this
I 100% agree that a dps meter will create toxicity and I pray it is never implemented in game. But MANY of these (mods/plug-ins) would be so helpful if they are considered.
No they don't and the people who do harder content already use them to gatekeep, it will change nothing only improve
@@Daniel-kn9xr it might not affect people who are already seasoned raiders since they've obviously been using one already but it will make some casuals/new raiders bash people potentially for not doing enough dps compared to other people in the party
@@anthony26812 3IQ take, the shitty people are at fault not the tool to help you improve and track progress
Chat bubbles was implemented in Phantasy Star Online, a game from 2000, a small indie team as SE could pull it off.
I know console technically have the colourblind option but the game should have its own colourblind option for console versions.
And also. Being able to remove all special effects or flashing lights as an option.
My mate wants to play this game but due to epilepsy has been super reluctant because they don't want seizures and the thunderstorms in gridiania locales is enough to trigger them
I have nerve issues with my hands, long play sessions cause them to cramp up, having to stretch my hands to hit something as simple as the "7" key can cause sharp pain, so a mod like XIVcombo which brings PVP combo functionality to PVE helps me beable to play the game. Jobs like Samurai, Ninja, Paladin, Dark Knight are unplayable with out this addon. You can do Combo stuff in PVP, there's no reason we can't have it in PVE.
Totally agree. I've seen some arguments that it would remove the feel of complexity that they prefer or make things too easy. It certainly doesn't make it much easier because you'd still have to know what state in the cycle it's at to combo certain abilities. They can also make it like pvp where you can either drag the combo action onto your hotbar or drag each step of the combo down to their own keys, so the choice is yours.
XVICOMBO is very close to be like a “cheat” if used in PVE.
It reduces a lot the base difficulty of the game and that is something that you don’t want. It turns every jobs into one button.
Instead what you can do is having a better keybind.
Actually I use only 123 numbers on the top of my keyboard. I use Shift/Alt to get 2 different variations (which leads to have 6 more buttons on 123). Also you can have WASD and Q E. these buttons are relative close to each other and with Shift/ALT/CNTRL you can have as much options as you want.
If you have to reach for a 7, you just suck at keybinding.
If you use 1-5, `QERTFG, plus shift/alt modifiers that's more than enough keys for any job.
Something I think needs to be pointed out, and it's something I imagine most people don't know(I sure didn't until Bungie just straight up explained it regarding Destiny 2) is that certain elements of the game, from UI elements to actual functions of certain things, often have a hard limit on how much they can show/do in the game engine itself.
As an example from Destiny 2, weapons used to be able to create something called "Orbs of Power", which when picked up did various things based on your build. However, Bungie wanted to add a new type of perk to weapons that would give them different bonuses based on the content the weapon was received from. To do this, they had to remove the ability to create Orbs of Power, because it having both would exceed the hard limit on how much any single gun can actually do built in to the engine.
There's a hard limit on how many different functions a single piece of gear can support enforced by the engine, and exceeding that would require a significant amount of time and effort.
I imagine this is what the FF14 devs mean when they say something "Won't fit" or that a feature simply "Can't be added". It's not literally impossible, but simply far more effort and risk than it seems.
I think it's important to note that combo plugins are also helpful for accessibility, it's not just about text-to-speech and colorblind modes. SE doesn't need to simplify PvE rotations down to a single button, but they should maybe consider adding an optional setting to condense certain combo strings individually, much like they've already done for certain combo actions that transform into their next step instead of being mapped on two separate buttons.
It's why I'm frustrated by things like removing Kaiten from SAM. As a physically disabled gamer, removing Kaiten is not making the job more fun for me, but being able to condense combos would. I like having all these different actions in a rotation, I just don't necessarily think we need separate keybinds for every single one. It's very frustrating to enter my combos in the wrong order when I play SAM, because it's not like I don't know the order. The instructions just got muddled on their way from my brain to my fingertips. It's almost like kinesthetic dyslexia, if that makes sense.
I can't really think of a way to describe it to people who don't have my particular form of cerebral palsy, but imagine if you had to think about breathing manually while you were juggling boss mechanics. That's kind of how it feels to play SAM with my fine-motor issues. I have to focus more on precise inputs for combos than most other people would, and this detracts from my ability to react to floor mechanics and other things that go on during a fight.
Color blind mode is a thing I was messing around in menus and found Protanopia, Dueteranopia, and Tritanopia coloring. Granted it did not shift the colors as drastically as your example did. So this seems more like fine tuning than adding in an option.
yeah add voice acting to all story quests and job story quests would really enhance the game. accesibility is also a must. i play 1 handed with an mmo mouse personally.
I brought a friend into the game who couldn't read any of the NPC instructions during the Guildleves, so I got him to install the text-to-speech plugin to read aloud those things so that he could hear it and adjust tactics as someone with better eyesight would have been able to do by reading from the chat box.
I hope they never put a dps meter. I absolutely was a slave to them in WoW so NO! Some of the graphic ones really make the game look nice. FFXIV does show FPS but would love the ping. I do wish we could keep our start screen stay.
It only shows fps in the settings menu, normally, though?
The fact they say some things are impossible and yet players made the mods themselves with tools available in the game ..hmmmm
i understand both sides of the dps meter argument. honestly i agree wutg Yoshi P, parsing and dps meters even personal only will become toxic there are far to many WoW refugees and other gamers in general that put a very high price on numbers and get either full of themselves or mad/depressed depending on how they do on a fight only in numbers. WoW is toxic AF for having that be a thing at all but FF was built with so much utility in many classes that a meter is just going to cause those jobs to be even less desireable simply because they do not bring the numbers other classes do even if their utility may be irreplaceable. It keeps Job fantasy nice and clean by not having the numbers brought to the conversation. The only numbers that should matter is how many times you get hit/die and how long it took to kill a boss
I agree, i think DPS meters add nothing to the game for the majority of the audience. I can see some niche raid teams wanting it to maximize efficiency but other than that. It only adds a chance to be toxic.
I would be open to it in a restricted environment, like getting one DPS reading after you clear a dummy in Stone, Sky, Sea or something.
Back in the day I used a mod that added a countdown timer to the companion chocobo in the party list because I got tired of never knowing when my chocobo would disappear in the middle of a FATE, or worse at the very end. I was pleasantly surprised when they finally added it to the UI. I had asked for it before via the suggestions page in settings. I just asked them for all sorts of things and a lot of them have come to pass. The only one I haven't seen yet was the one where I asked them to make it so that we could glamour our companion to look like other animalistic mounts. It would be cool if I could use a gryphon or maybe something as simple as my legacy chocobo as my battle buddy.
There's a behemoth barding that looks like another animal. It's kinda scary actually.
@@cutecats532 True, and I have the barding, but it would be fun to be able to use something other than a chocobo. Even if they just copied and pasted the attack animations from the existing monsters that look similar to the mounts, that would be enough for me.
I DONT (cough) use a DPS meter and even I do not want a meter in the game officially. It WILL make people toxic. I understand for hardcore raiders but FF is non-toxic for a reason.
it wouldnt change anything. those of us that use parsers talk shit in our calls or remove someone for doing very very low dmg. if they implement their own and make talking bad on someone bannable hows it any different?
its because is highly moderated and things like being an asshole or ruining other people experience are taken seriously, as they should.
thats why ff is non-toxic. it has nothing to do with parsers being official or not.
because if they were, being an asshole is still against terms of service.
whats more, until the recent shift on the enforcement of their ToS, most ACT bans were from people beings assholes not from people just having it.
Define 'non-toxic'. In my experience it's just a more masked, passive aggressive toxicity.
While I absolutely understand YoshiP's stance on DPS meters, FFXIV is far from non-toxic. It can be really great! But it still gets toxic, just perhaps in different ways than some other games.
XIV can be toxic as well, just in a more “GCBTW” way
I can relate to physical/magical damage determination. I would think the easiest go to option is to color code the cast bar. Leave it the color it is now for phys, give it a blue or purple color when it's magic. Would handle most skills except for abilities that are straight up insta cast
They should change the color of the text when you receive damage so it covers insta casts as well
You know, FF14 is the first MMO I've played more than a couple days, and I've never used add-ons. I mentioned on a video to another content creator that voice support for duties that can be toggled off and on could be helpful, especially if when toggled off, you could get text-to-speech and speech-to-text. But honestly, making the game more disability friendly would be a really good idea. No damage meters or call-out programs. But yeah, talking with people who are colorblind, have poorer vision, have reading disabilities, autism, etc., should actually be YoshiP and crew's first step. Because add-ons in their cases aren't for cheesing the game - they're so they can simply access it.
The TextToTalk plugin implements text-to-speech, and you can get even use premium, paid for voices if you don't like robotic voices.
@@ex0stasis72 Okay, sure - the point is that the terms of service ban ALL third party plugins, even ones that just provide accessibility. And if YoshiP and crew want to integrate tools that are being used by third parties, they should focus on accessibility tools. And, yeah, such tools are out there - and are really good. YoshiP and crew should talk to the providers of such tools and officially onboard them to the game itself, just as they outsource some of the voice acting, music production, etc.
With regards to the minion thing I'll bet that the engineers told him that it was impossible just so they could look like miracle workers whenever they finally got it to work
It's like intentionally adding delays in your code, then removing them later so you can look like you made things way more efficient. I wouldn't be surprised if some of this is just the engineers not wanting to add to their current workload. And that's understandable, but at some point Yoshi P has to realize this is a big problem and dedicate some time to the dev cycle for UI updates or hire more resources to address these issues.
XIVAlexander, having some proper lag compensation so people with high ping can actually play jobs like mch. Can't believe this isn't already in the game.
Thanks for the coverage Zepla. I'll mention what I use, which is a 3rd party copy pasta database called Ditto. It would be also nice if we could export RP/Chat logs to our PC for looking up old information. The log system is already in place too.
The part at the end with the messege from mod devs reminds me of when people hack or break in to a place and that place wants to hire them as security. It's a smart move. I don't know how Square Enix would be able to moderate and ensure volunteers for this purpose are doing it in the games best interest, I feel like there's a risk if they open that door but it could be a smart move if they could do it.
Auto price 1 Gil below market board.
Auto sell if price is below npc price.
3:30 I love this point. "People might say it's less efficient, but I don't think a game is fun if all it does is push for efficiency."
Could not agree more. There's another way of putting it and I see Min-Maxers become guilty of this the most: "Optimize the fun out of a game."
You do not need ACT. Period. Is it helpful? Sure. Needed? Absolutely not. If you are curious about clearing a raid damage wise, that's the entire point of Stone, Sky, Sea. If you can clear that, the rest is learning the fight. Simple as that.
The people who actually use act actually want to improve on their own. They want to improve on their rotation/buff usage/pots timer/ect. Its a big reason why they keep doing the same raid over and over again to see higher number up to a certain point. For those people they need ACT.
And also stone,sky, and sea is just bad b/c it doesn't count movement throughout the fight and other people party buff ect.
You can't tell other people how to play their game by saying "I don't think a game is fun by pushing efficiency" because there always people that do care about pushing damage and seeing actual number and their skill timeline.
I personally used act to help me improve A LOT on my rotation and combat skills and it nice to see the improvement across weeks of doing raids that i am getting more cast in or i am getting more uptime.
Also anyone using act to harass people is big no no. I just want to state that. And from my experience in PF that i have a lot of cleared this tier. I haven't seen a single person be toxic about dmg in chat/in game about it at least so far...
@@ikillforgood I didn't say that. That quote isn't from me. Look at the the time stamp. The quote is pulled straight from what Yoshi-P was quoted saying.
@@ikillforgood And I get what ACT is used for. It's why I said "useful but not necessary." Also why I said that learning the fight is what's next after knowing you can clear the fight damage-wise.
I used to use ACT for the same reasons so I get where you're coming from. I'm just saying that at the end of the day, it's not a manadatory mod for clearing high end content and it's never coming to the game. Yoshi-P has and always will be adamant about that. And so long as that's his stance, then people will get into trouble for using it IF they are very public about it.
As the game evolves, the whole discussion about TOS and Mods/Addons is a great gateway to further improve the game while having the ability to benefit the whole community (PC + PS players)
Wouldn't want to play the game without all the simple tweaks I'm using. Rather eat a ban than lose them.
People have been asking for these things for 10 years now, the ui was dated and archaic even way back at release.
They've said so many things aren't possible, while mods have been doing them for years. They even said that about the collectible obtained indicator that they just added.
There is a factor of modding doesn't need to have as much quality control as official release. Given I imagine there are some that are above or on par with what SE can put out.
The only thing that frustrates me with the dev team and Yoshi is the constantly CONSTANTLY say 'we can't it's impossible' or 'it's too hard!' Yet random players can toss them out left and right from their laptops and a bit of skill. Prolly shouldn't say that sorta thing when hobbyists are doing the job pretty well without official resources.
Ohhhh these comments gonna be spicy.
Voice acting and housing . For me personally would be a huge help!! The speech bubbles too cause I’m visually impaired. Mannnn these additions would be so so so amazing !
While I get a DPS meter is good for those that want to just improve, let's look at WoW. How often are DPS meters used to shame people, cause people to leave groups in protest, etc. YoshiP is dead on accurate with this, he doesn't want WoW's toxicity.
that's why people are saying "personal" dps meter. let me see my dps.
@@seven2eight2 You don't think people would ask to see parses for certain content? I guess I should state, toxicity through shaming is only one part of the problem, the other is barring entry to content using parses as a means to bar someone. Even if WoW's was "personal" the community would find ways to use it for ill. I mean, I can see someone shaming someone else then being all "show me your parse! prove it!"
@@P0w3rsl4v3 if you do 1/10th the dps required to kill a boss, thats on you
@@jtowensbyiii6018 That can happen, and if that really bugs people they shouldn't play MMOs because not everyone is a master at the game. Just the way it is.
I've been asking for chat bubbles since the 1st closed beta of ARR, in the feedback section of each and every closed beta I got into, as well as ever since launch.
I still can't wrap my head around their excuses, when everything that is asked about is already in game via plugins/addons/mods
It's almost as if you are not a game developer in a gigantic MMORPG and thus probably don't have the full picture.
Because departments have budgets both in time and money. They also have to implement stuff at least semi-properly. What mods currently are doing, is to hook onto specific events and execute arbitrary code. That is not how you develop, like at all.
Idk if you know WoW, but the original designer of the Monk class implemented the roll ability, which had a novel type of movement associated with it, within the designers workspace. It worked, but once the engineer he was working with got their eyes on it, the engineer basically went: "We can't do it that way" and did it properly, in the right places, presumably in part that you can actually use that type of movement on other classes than Monk, without having to use even worse hackjobs.
That's the basis of all development environments that have more than a single department.
The full picture is that all of these things are 100% possible for them to do, so they should stop making a bunch of excuses and either say no, not going to happen, or just "we'll look into it" and leave it at that, or even just ignore the question. Too much time to develop? Say that. The fact that YoshiP has said the word "impossible" only to have that thing introduced months later is silly.
@@DFell3 That's absolutely valid criticism, and I tend to agree.
Proper communication is key and while they are pretty outstanding in comparison to other AAA titles, they definitely lack in some areas. E.g. YoshiP claiming that Ping has no effect on your ability to play your job.
Just wanted to clarify why mods are not necessarily a good argument about the possibility to implement something, outside of using them as a proof of concept. The existence of mods itself however can be a good argument that there is a desire to implement these changes.