Why is the new dragoon animation so terrible?

[Griller]

"OMG it's going to cost so much money and be such an inefficient use of time to make a /visor animation!!!"

/chuckle

why give us /visor at all if they shouldn't give no ___ about animating it?
speaking of which, they should give us an option to bind it to sheathe/unsheathe by default. then more people would use it. and no I dont mean macros lol.

much kudos to the dev team for the majority of 3.0 though, mostly everything looks great.

[WellFooled]

"OMG it's going to cost so much money and be such an inefficient use of time to make a /visor animation!!!"

Jynx used a saying, death by a thousand cuts, earlier in this thread and that same idea works in the other direction too. Video game developers famously have insane work schedules and that's no exception for the FFXIV team; Corvinoobus gave us an idea of what their schedule is like in a post not too long ago.

Mmm, well, things happen when you're working 300 hour months. This'll be corrected to Third Astral Era in 3.06. Apologies for the confusion!

One visor animation might seem like a tiny project to us, and it is, but compound it with everything else that needs to get done and it becomes a big project. Death by a thousand tiny projects. Realistically, some of those tiny projects can't get done.

Would a smoother animation be awesome? Absolutely. Are the Developers lazy or evil for not including it? Absolutely not.

[Sicno]

One visor animation might seem like a tiny project to us, and it is, but compound it with everything else that needs to get done and it becomes a big project. Death by a thousand tiny projects. Realistically, some of those tiny projects can't get done.

Would a smoother animation be awesome? Absolutely. Are the Developers lazy or evil for not including it? Absolutely not.

Yet for how busy they seem to be they still take some weird and random suggestions seriously. And that sounds like a lot more work than a proper /visor animation.

[Almalexia]

Yet for how busy they seem to be they still take some weird and random suggestions seriously. And that sounds like a lot more work than a proper /visor animation.

We relayed your request to the development team.

is not the same as

We are taking your weird and random suggestion very seriously and will fit it into our development schedule.

Take into account they are creating new minions all the time anyway, and a community request makes guiding their next project easier.

[Griller]

One visor animation might seem like a tiny project to us, and it is, but compound it with everything else that needs to get done and it becomes a big project. Death by a thousand tiny projects. Realistically, some of those tiny projects can't get done.

Would a smoother animation be awesome? Absolutely. Are the Developers lazy or evil for not including it? Absolutely not.

Sure it can go both ways. What I'm trying to do is bring attention to some rough bits in 3.0 that were very well polished in 2.x. Is this the developers being lazy? without being in a room with them, I have no idea. But I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and say (pretty confidently) that they're not.

[Felis]

why give us /visor at all if they shouldn't give no ___ about animating it?

Because community demanded it
At the beginning of the game there was no /visor