As of patch 7.1, it is now impossible to disable the exclamation point pop-up and ding sound when you hook a fish. Previously, you could do this by turning off battle effects or setting them to limited for "self."
I have misophonia, and the ding sound from fishing specifically is a trigger and I literally cannot fish in-game at this time because the sound makes me experience pretty severe physical and psychological distress.
I have been fishing in this game since ARR. It's my favorite part of FFXIV.
For me, the fun of fishing is relaxing in the in-game environments, listening to the music and the soft creak of the rod, and immersing myself in the world. With DING "!" every few seconds that is impossible (even if you don't get misophonia from it!). Fishing becomes a noisy, irritating, grind. It loses its heart.
I do understand that for a lot of players they just want to be able to grind fishing, so I get why the exclamation point system was added. But we could ALWAYS turn it off. Now we cannot.
Please re-enable the option to turn the fishing alerts off in settings, either through battle effects or with a dedicated setting.
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I have misophonia, and the ding sound from fishing specifically is a trigger and I literally cannot fish in-game at this time because the sound makes me experience pretty severe physical and psychological distress.
I have been fishing in this game since ARR. It's my favorite part of FFXIV.
For me, the fun of fishing is relaxing in the in-game environments, listening to the music and the soft creak of the rod, and immersing myself in the world. With DING "!" every few seconds that is impossible (even if you don't get misophonia from it!). Fishing becomes a noisy, irritating, grind. It loses its heart.
I do understand that for a lot of players they just want to be able to grind fishing, so I get why the exclamation point system was added. But we could ALWAYS turn it off. Now we cannot.
Please re-enable the option to turn the fishing alerts off in settings, either through battle effects or with a dedicated setting.
Continue reading...