F8 Functionality Change

[Malthar]

I predict the next fix is that we'll be unable to change gear while engaged or if we have enmity.

[Alhanelem]

I predict the next fix is that we'll be unable to change gear while engaged or if we have enmity.

Which ironically is the standard in most other MMOs, however those games are all designed with that in mind. in FFXI, it would totally wreck the game lol

[machini]

Which ironically is the standard in most other MMOs, however those games are all designed with that in mind. in FFXI, it would totally wreck the game lol

I'd quit, never come back, and never buy another Squeenix product, even if they're only the distributor, if that happened.

[Alhanelem]

I'd quit, never come back, and never buy another Squeenix product, even if they're only the distributor, if that happened.

That might be just a little bit extreme.

While it's part of FFXI's core gameplay, the pedant in me doesn't like it because changing clothing in the middle of a battle with a giant dragon or evil spirit violates my suspension of disbelief. Since it's a fantasy world, they could explain it away with magic, but you don't cast any magic or anything to change your equipment. Buuuut, for the same reason, I also hate enemy attacks that remove your gear because that doesn't make sense either and is rather perverse

Ignoring that aspect, things are much better now than they were in the old days thanks to gear sets and lockstyle, which solve the two biggest annoyances associated with gear swapping- complex macros and blinking.

[machini]

That might be just a little bit extreme.

While it's part of FFXI's core gameplay, the pedant in me doesn't like it because changing clothing in the middle of a battle with a giant dragon or evil spirit violates my suspension of disbelief. Since it's a fantasy world, they could explain it away with magic, but you don't cast any magic or anything to change your equipment. Buuuut, for the same reason, I also hate enemy attacks that remove your gear because that doesn't make sense either and is rather perverse

Ignoring that aspect, things are much better now than they were in the old days thanks to gear sets and lockstyle, which solve the two biggest annoyances associated with gear swapping- complex macros and blinking.

I had a big long reply to this typed out last night, then I hit the wrong button and it got eaten. Here's a more condensed version:

FFXI is unique, or nearly unique (as I'm not omniscient) in several of its mechanics. They are not implemented in other games, or at least not in other MMOs. I have spent an awful lot of time accumulating gear for an awful lot of jobs to wring every last ounce of sub percentage improvement out of them. If 95% of that equipment became, overnight, completely worthless because I could no longer swap to it mid-combat, yes, I would quit.

Destroying unique mechanics is not fun. Removing the aspects of the game that make it highly enjoyable and rewarding for people who are willing to put in the effort is not fun. What should they do next? Make RME free?

If I wanted to play a crappy game that is an abomination, made in mockery of a game that I love, with no Job System, no Gear Changing, and is, like almost every modern MMO, a WoW clone, I'd go play FFXIV.

Except that is not what I want. That's the point. And if they're going to completely destroy what I love in an effort to drive me to a substandard, horrible game that I will not play, a game that was so exceptionally bad they had to remake it, then actually, Alhanelem, I want nothing to ever do with SE or any game related to SE, even by them merely being publishers, ever ever ever again.