Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Quest Markers Are Now Optional

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Written by WorstUsernameEver on September 24th, 2011

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Providing an option for quest targets (or anything else, for that matter) is sadly not a matter of spending 5 minutes on it. Unfortunately the implementation of any new functionality, even something relatively simple like this, is generally a pretty involved process on a multiplatform game of this size and complexity. Further, any changes made at this point in development have to be very carefully considered, as even the smallest changes have an unfortunate tendency to introduce new bugs into the game. Oftentimes something that seems like a no-brainer from the outside is in fact a really serious risk from a developer perspective.

That said, it's clear that this issue is important to some of our fans, so tomorrow I'll sit down with the UI team and get some estimates on the time it would take to make this a toggleable feature and the estimated level of risk (bug-wise) in making it a toggle.

I am by no means promising that we'll implement a toggle for quest markers (if it looks like it'll be a bad thing for the project, especially if it looks likely to introduce new bugs, then we certainly won't do it), but I wanted to at least let you know that we take fan concerns like this one quite seriously and we will spend the time to investigate our options.

Ok, so I've met with the UI team and we've investigated our options. For a variety of reasons, toggling quest markers on the MAP is not something we'll be doing. But the quest markers in the world itself? Yes, I'm pleased to report that our Principal UI Designer is going to work a little magic and make them fully toggleable (on by default).

If you don't want to see floating !s, ?s, and arrows in Reckoning, you will not have to do so.

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