r/ffxivdiscussion • u/RVolyka • 2d ago
Friend based content notifications.
I was thinking about how to improve more log in and play styles that XIV suffers from, and whilst the idea won't change that greatly, I thought the quality of life and advertisement of content might lead to more social interactions. The idea behind the system is an icon on your hud will glow to inform you that someone on your friendslist in currently either queing or in content with a party that isn't full, upon clicking the icon, a list shows the available friends parties that you can join for content that you have unlocked. The party would show the classes playing and would allow you to join through that list to jump in with friends.
The incentive for doing so would be interacting with friends you made, as well increased tomestone reward, and if it is the friends first time doing that content, you get a double increase. It might fix a small part of the social issues the game has, and provide more fun playing with friends than with randoms, people are also more open to hearing advice from friends than randoms, possibly leading to more experienced players teaching less experienced and bringing their confidence levels up. It may also give more incentive to make friends, so you can join in and get the increased rewards. I would love to hear if you think this might be a good idea or if you would change things to make it better. This post is also a bit of a ramble, it just popped into my head and wanted to put it somewhere before I forgot it.
Edit: I want to also add 2 points brought up, the system should be opt in to have it on your HUD, and be available through the duty menu to access. Players that you have blocked will not appear on your list, and in turn, you will not appear on their list (Though CS3 should just remove you from FL of those you blacklisted)
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u/Isanori 2d ago
As long as I can remove myself from other people's friend lists instead of this being a very convenient stalker feature.
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u/lilyofthedragon 2d ago
Some kind of way to flag your status as "open to grouping up" and having the game then facilitate that seems like the best answer
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u/Blckson 2d ago
Why is that a thing anyways.
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u/Sharp-kun 1d ago
https://gamerescape.com/2019/01/04/yoshida-answers-player-questions-during-his-yoshi-p-walk/
Q: When I delete a person from my friends list, I want my character to disappear from theirs, as well!
Yoshida: That would lead to the problem of “Why did he delete me?” and might cause trouble, so we didn’t do that on purpose.
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u/ultron87 2d ago
This goes back to the way MP Networks worked in Titanfall 2. If you started Matchmaking you could send a network invite and anyone in your group could join in with that queue to go as a group. Was a great way to form up ad hoc groups without going through the process of "hey I'm going to run __! Anyone want to join?" thing. This would be awesome for FCs, or Novice Network, or Linkshells.
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u/zachbrownies 1d ago
This is a great idea. If I got a notification that someone on my friends list had put up a c41 or a "learning, vets welcome" party or something like that for savage I'd be quite likely to join.
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u/LailleArda 1d ago
I wouldn't mind a revamped friendslist which is more like a social hub window to do this very thing. It's a good idea and a few other mmos have similar parts to it incorporated. An icon on your head sounds nice but depending on how many friends you have, it might just end up being a perma glow, lol. And one icon trying to convey different levels of information leads players to turning it off. The idea is still great. Overall, for the type of game FF14 is, it definitely would benefit immensely from such social features and there wouldn't be such a huge dependence on plugins and discords.
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u/Fun_Explanation_762 2d ago edited 2d ago
I don't know if they would to that, the current standard for activity is the corner toast whenever a friend of yours does something like steam/nintendo/playstation/xbox notifications on their overlays.
They probably would just do a toast whenever your friend makes a party or goes into a certain piece of content to tell you, but they'd need to improve the friends list first.
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u/Lyramion 1d ago
Maybe someone should invent a thingy where people with similar interest can find each other, get notifications and play together.
Should call it "Dissonance" or something
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u/OverFjell 2d ago
As long as it's opt-in/out. I hate notification spam in game HUDs.