Swimming and underwater content?

[Lusavari]

When I think of Pirates, I think of people with scurvy, that spend months at a time on a boat, and horde valuable items in their boat until they dock. Plus I think of the classic English ones who actually worked for the British government and robbed the Spanish. I also think of Paranoid pirates who are superstitious and don't like water. Which is most pirates, even a lot of non-romanticized pirates.

Anyway. Sure, maybe later on, but I know a lot of people here have said it sucks in WoW. I'm all for a lot of major over hauls in the game. But swimming? Jumping, sure. But Swimming? Ugh... I just do not wanna have to deal with diving to try and find some ??? Later at some time in the future, sure, but Only in special new zones designed for it for one. It's just not something I really care to have the Dev Team waste resources on for the next 6 months. As is though, this game is not made for 3D movement.

[Skidkidd]

This feature would be so awesome! Imagine the possibilities. I dont understand why people would be against this and this would so go hand in hand with spear fishing. If people are not in favor then just dont participate, I mean seriously what harm could be done by adding more content. Yes it would mean they would have to expand but thats awesome. The more the merrier I say.

Ash the Destroyer-
7th Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon

[Gracious]

This is a great idea.

[Malakhim]

wasn't
(my keyboard is skrewy.)

sorry but taking a quote about pirates off of the discovery channel is stupid.

guys this is a fantasy game. It's in the flippin title.

Stop over dramatizing every aspect ppl want. These are video games.
Anyone using the immersion excuse better be role players who walk and not run, have names turned off. And "sleep" at night. Or i will scream you break immersion by not doing those.

some of the complaints ppl give for positive changes is getting really annoying. Alot of classes can benifit from swimming.

Bonecrafters, goldsmiths, fishers, botenists.

I'm pretty sure that out of everyone that's posted in the entire English section of the forums, I'm the only one who has gone on record saying "I would like to see a playable aquatic race".

Yeah, it's Final Fantasy, and yeah, there have been subs, undersea trenches, facilities and even underwater sports in the FF series, so it isn't that big of a stretch to say it could be possible/awesome in FFXIV. I'd more than welcome it, but it has to make sense within the game. If they want to introduce undersea zones or content or stuff that fits, then do it.

I'm more afraid of having half-assed systems that feel awkward than having the systems themselves.

[MariyaShidou]

This feature would be so awesome! Imagine the possibilities. I dont understand why people would be against this and this would so go hand in hand with spear fishing. If people are not in favor then just dont participate, I mean seriously what harm could be done by adding more content. Yes it would mean they would have to expand but thats awesome. The more the merrier I say.

Ash the Destroyer-
7th Sun of the 4th Umbral Moon

What harm could be done by adding more content? Right, we should add space ship and space maps, other planets, giant chocobo mecha, sex and everything.

[Dragon]

If we can have underwater content without actually swimming, then why bother with swimming? If say, an entire zone were underwater (like FFXI's Sea, technically speaking), maybe have a semblance of swimming, but not any substantive deviation in combat/animation to qualify it as swimming.

Either way, it shouldn't even be a drop of thought at this point... let's get some actual content, instead of what could very likely turn into a gimmick.

[Onidemon]

Wow this started just as a fun discussion but i'm really impressed by how many people are supportive of the idea of swimming and underwater content. Not only that but some great idea are being brought up.... keep it up guys!

To those against it.... all i see in your arguments is "ohh it's too cartoony", "it's copying WOW" (as if wow invented swimming...) or better yet... "it can't be done cuz its not already in the game" ... sure flying mounts were always in the game in WOW... Blizzard just wanted to keep it a secret for TBC expansion....

And yup we know this is expansion set stuff but it certainly is fun to talk about it and expansion take time to make so might as well start now! I even got a title for SE "leviathan's wrath" with swimming and loads of watery stuff

[Kumop]

Underwater Content - Maybe if done right...

Swimming - No...

[Kaedan]

I'll just say... maybe.

I would not like to see anything like how Rift does it. It looks really cheesy and completely ruins any form of immersion I might even try to have.

The only reason I would support it is because I'm a Corsair at heart and wouldn't mind being able to go to an island area and swim from island to island. I would generally be against underwater combat... it's just too hard to do it well. Though if they got the physics right, then maybe.

But then again, I'm also against manual jumping. I would love to see an Auto-jump and even would enjoy seeing some well-done swimming though.

[Tenchi]

I think it would be really cool to have the option