Jumping Risk Assessment

[Jinko]

+1 to jumping.

It could actually allow for some interesting platform based boss fights.

[Malakhim]

Jumping doesn't make a game "next gen". Mortal Kombat (1992) had jump. Do you consider this a next gen game? No? Ok, Demon's Souls (2009) doesn't have jump. Is it a next gen game? Yes. WHAT?! IT DOESN'T HAVE JUMP AND IT'S NEXT GEN?! ZOOOOOOOOOOMG /WRIST END OF ZEH WORLD AAAAAAAAAH But seriously, jumping has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not a game is next gen. FFXIV is not a game where jumping would "fit." There are no bosses that do aoe ground only attacks and there are no bosses that do aoe air only attacks. In FFXIV, an attack is an attack. There is no Y positioning at all so why would we need a jump feature? Aside from crossing terrain while looking like an idiot (not necessary) I see no need for jump in FFXIV. It just doesn't mesh with the rest of the game.

While I don't really care either way if they add jumping anymore, I agree with this point. A lot of people including people posting in this thread are bitching that SE can't do anything to add compelling content, and that they're slow, etc. etc. etc.

What makes any of you guys think that they'll be able to add jumping, and then add compelling content that uses jumping to a fun degree, if this is what you've been bitching about since day one of the forums being open?

Incidentally, there's apparently also a few FPS developers who have been wanting to get rid of the jump button in their games as well.

Also,

People fail to realize most FF games had contextual jumping, not free jumping and it didn't make the game better.

And if anything, it just made those games even more awkward to look at. Hell, Dissidia is a huge turn off for me and a few of my friends simply because of all the time you spend flying around the air like a fairy.

That being said, I think that the biggest reason anybody might be afraid of jumping is the assumed "hordes of WoW, Aion, _insert MMO with shit community here_ tards" are going to suddenly jump ship and come to FFXIV's "secretive gated community" and ruin everything. "WoW has free jumping, and WoW has a shit playerbase, therefore WoW has a shit playerbase because it has free jumping" seems to be the logic being tossed around here, and nothing could be more false.

That, and jumping in WoW(well most things in WoW) look stupid and cartoony, so that's probably another reason. This doesn't necessarily have to be the case for FFXIV though, being that the devs here actually seem to care about what the game looks like.

[Tiraelina]

Everyone that doesn't want jumping is apparently fine with a bland and featureless world. Why is anyone even trying to compare CURRENT mechanics 1:1 with jumping implemented? The game is changing, if they want it to be part of gameplay then it will be part of gameplay. It is so incredibly pointless to say theres nothing to use jumping for in a game that doesn't have it yet.

The entirety of the OP was beating around the bush and then turning into another "WoW has it, I don't want it" and then proceeds to degrade the playerbase. FF Mystic Quest had free jumping.

[Elexia]

Everyone that doesn't want jumping is apparently fine with a bland and featureless world.

Jumping will not make the game better.

Here are some features that will make the game better:

-Campaign type battles
-Besieged type battles
-Ship/Airship Battles
-Puzzle Solving
-Abyssea type system where you get rewards no matter how "casual" or "hardcore" you are.

That's what you call features to make the game better. Jumping? Seriously? That adds nothing to a game. You do NOT join an MMO because you jump, I have never in my 2x years of online gaming heard someone say:


"I WANT TO PLAY THIS MMO BECAUSE I CAN JUMP! ^__^"

[Elexia]

For example:
http://iris.gpotato.com/

Me my brother and his gf didn't join this game because you can jump, we joined it because it had an interesting design. Btw, jumping in that game serves very little purpose, yet it's a fun as hell game.

Go figure the fun comes from everything but jumping, eh?

[Evangela]

just go back to FFXI, sitting on a rocking chair forever

you people are not fit in this new generation, jumping might hurt your waist and hip

[Elexia]

just go back to FFXI, sitting on a rocking chair forever

you people are not fit in this new generation, jumping might hurt your waist and hip

That's very smart though. Tell people go back to SE's other successful MMO so that XIV can fade into nothing since it will show them they should focus on XI instead of XIV

[Evangela]

That's very smart though. Tell people go back to SE's other successful MMO so that XIV can fade into nothing since it will show them they should focus on XI instead of XIV

I don't care

all XI fanboys do is holding back XIV from stepping forward

[Elexia]

I don't care

all XI fanboys do is holding back XIV from stepping forward

You should care. XI is making them a lot of money, XIV is not. Telling people to go to their other successful MMO and make them even more money, any wise business would see that as a sign to put all attention onto what is making them money so they can make even more money.

[Melodicya]

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