A request for Capes & Cloaks

[tymora]

Capes and cloaks always reminds me of "The Incredibles", when that scientist laments the number of heros who died due to wearing them. E.g sucked into jet engines...etc

[Zaireeka2025]

Ok, seriously I'm getting pissed reading all these comments. Wtf is wrong with people?! When did capes + fantasy world, meaning medieval, magic, swords and sorcery not go together; for those that need a little help (i'm lookin at you Zeref). Has everyone forgotten that this combination goes together like rice and beans? Apparently, Zenaku is in support of something that should have been planned for the game since its creation. I am personally angry with SE for not thinking this through beforehand. Now we are stuck in a pointless position where asking for such an obvious request is being negated for stupid reasons like "capes are for superheroes derp!"

Seriously, those who are against capes must be so scarred by WoW that they have forgotten that all the best fantasy heroes wear capes. Final Fantasy's roots and Amano's artwork displays capes in all their glory.

How many characters are wearing capes in this list? That's Final Fantasy ONE, ok?

Does this look like a cape to y'all?

How about this badass? Or this guy? The latter ones here designed by our beloved Akihiko Yoshida.

So please, stop with the boohoo nonsensical "capes don't fit in this game" crap and forget that WoW ever existed. THIS AINT WOW AND IT NEVER WILL BE. Capes done FFXIV style would obviously look fantastic. Now I COMPLETELY understand the reasoning behind the amount of graphical power, physics and gear-tailoring needed to get capes to look right for this game (which, again, should have been planned for from the start) and is a sound argument given FFXIV's current state. But it's the mistake of the original planners that we will probably never see capes. Thanks SE.

Don't worry Zenaku, the cape naysayers are scarred by WoW's and other mmo's bad graphical choices. Why in the world would SE give FFXIV the flat polygonal cape look to our beautiful Eorzean motif? Again Zen, your idea of class-specific capes would be so bomb I pee myself imagining cape implementation over some artifact armor. This Evil Armor without a cape makes me feel like something is missing. What confuses me most is, with so much of SE's resources put into FFXIV's graphics and physics (which in turn made gameplay and release timing suffer) why did this get omitted?

[Zenaku]

Ok, seriously I'm getting pissed reading all these comments. Wtf is wrong with people?! When did capes + fantasy world, meaning medieval, magic, swords and sorcery not go together; for those that need a little help (i'm lookin at you Zeref). Has everyone forgotten that this combination goes together like rice and beans? Apparently, Zenaku is in support of something that should have been planned for the game since its creation. I am personally angry with SE for not thinking this through beforehand. Now we are stuck in a pointless position where asking for such an obvious request is being negated for stupid reasons like "capes are for superheroes derp!"

Seriously, those who are against capes must be so scarred by WoW that they have forgotten that all the best fantasy heroes wear capes. Final Fantasy's roots and Amano's artwork displays capes in all their glory.

How many characters are wearing capes in this list? That's Final Fantasy ONE, ok?

Does this look like a cape to y'all?

How about this badass? Or this guy? The latter ones here designed by our beloved Akihiko Yoshida.

So please, stop with the boohoo nonsensical "capes don't fit in this game" crap and forget that WoW ever existed. THIS AINT WOW AND IT NEVER WILL BE. Capes done FFXIV style would obviously look fantastic. Now I COMPLETELY understand the reasoning behind the amount of graphical power, physics and gear-tailoring needed to get capes to look right for this game (which, again, should have been planned for from the start) and is a sound argument given FFXIV's current state. But it's the mistake of the original planners that we will probably never see capes. Thanks SE.

Don't worry Zenaku, the cape naysayers are scarred by WoW's and other mmo's bad graphical implementation. Why in the world would SE give FFXIV the flat polygonal cape look to our beautiful Eorzea motif? Again Zen, your idea of class-specific capes would be so bomb I pee myself imagining cape implementation with upcoming artifact armor. What confuses me most is, with so much of SE's resources put into FFXIV's graphics and physics (which in turn made gameplay and release timing suffer) why did this get omitted?

I'm not a wow players but i can see how bad wow capes are. But does not mean FFXIV would have such bad capes.

Samurai can have bleach capes http://www.animemangalap.eoldal.hu/i...59_355_265.jpg

Assassin or THF can have this type of cape http://www.google.com/imgres?q=assas...1t:429,r:0,s:0

and they can make diff type of capes for diff type of jobs i see no issue in asking for this in a much later date. Even if people dislike the idea you can turn it off if you dislike it and you keep the game how you want it.

[Zaireeka2025]

I'm all for visible backpacks too, and pet moogle shops.

[MariyaShidou]

Pshaw, they really need to hire Relic to animate cape. The cloth pieces from Powered Armour have their own physics and flutter realistically, but no cape yet since it get caught in your Jet Pack and then Kabooooooom.

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/8872/clothr.jpg
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/6660/cloth01.jpg

So ya, no cape. Gimme SHOULDERPADS AND BACKPACK.

[Zenaku]

Pshaw, they really need to hire Relic to animate cape. The cloth pieces from Powered Armour have their own physics and flutter realistically, but no cape yet since it get caught in your Jet Pack and then Kabooooooom.

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/8872/clothr.jpg
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/6660/cloth01.jpg

So ya, no cape. Gimme SHOULDERPADS AND BACKPACK.

That game look noting like FFXIV you can't use a game like that because you think the capes going to look bad, And let's say the capes does look very good in FFXIV but by any bad luck you dislike it guess what? /Displaybackitem On/OFF there you go others can have there capes and you can still enjoy the game.

So please everyone stop saying no thanks when you can easy display it off and it would even mess up your gameplay -.- i love how people ask to make this or that and it does mess everyone gameplay but when it something like this people go on saying no even when you give them facts and information how it would not mess there gameplay they still stay no it pretty selfish and childish.

I don't care if the game spec goes up if they add Capes you can display it off and you still can run the game on low end pc like people are now. When a new pack come out the spec most of the time goes up so i don't see why not.

[Zeref]

That game look noting like FFXIV you can't use a game like that because you think the capes going to look bad, And let's say the capes does look very good in FFXIV but by any bad luck you dislike it guess what? /Displaybackitem On/OFF there you go others can have there capes and you can still enjoy the game.

So please everyone stop saying no thanks when you can easy display it off and it would even mess up your gameplay -.- i love how people ask to make this or that and it does mess everyone gameplay but when it something like this people go on saying no even when you give them facts and information how it would not mess there gameplay they still stay no it pretty selfish and childish.

I don't care if the game spec goes up if they add Capes you can display it off and you still can run the game on low end pc like people are now. When a new pack come out the spec most of the time goes up so i don't see why not.

What is wrong with you man? do you seriously have some kind of comprehension issue? minimum requirements never go up with a patch (what the hell is a pack? this isn't a card game) nor with an expansion, occasionally like with Cataclysm or Battleforge new patches will add support for newer DX versions, but that doesn't raise the "specs" as you like to call them (please read a bit from wikipedia before you start using terms you can't understand)
Also like i said, i could turn off capes just fine, but i can't seem to turn you off and that's the issue here, there will always be a need for more to be done, etc... you people are never satisfied, on top of it all you didn't provide any information, you just constantly repeat the "but you can turn them off" and if you really want to talk about childish consider your persistency of this issue and insistance that you know how easy/hard it would be to make something even though the DEVELOPERS SAID NO, Also you might not care that "game specs go up" but everyone else does.


Here is something else to consider for general readers: What aggravates me so much is not a request for what is essentially a useless waste of time space and energy, but these... well it'd get censored by a mod anyway... these people, and i use the term lightly, that spend all day playing games and throw around ideas with the belief (belief they impose on others) that designing, creating, and implementing a new feature or function is as easy as pushing a button, it astounds me that in 2011, when children in africa have laptops, there are people that are still this technologically devoid of any common sense and reason.

[Zenaku]

What is wrong with you man? do you seriously have some kind of comprehension issue? minimum requirements never go up with a patch (what the hell is a pack? this isn't a card game) nor with an expansion, occasionally like with Cataclysm or Battleforge new patches will add support for newer DX versions, but that doesn't raise the "specs" as you like to call them (please read a bit from wikipedia before you start using terms you can't understand)
Also like i said, i could turn off capes just fine, but i can't seem to turn you off and that's the issue here, there will always be a need for more to be done, etc... you people are never satisfied, on top of it all you didn't provide any information, you just constantly repeat the "but you can turn them off" and if you really want to talk about childish consider your persistency of this issue and insistance that you know how easy/hard it would be to make something even though the DEVELOPERS SAID NO, Also you might not care that "game specs go up" but everyone else does.


Here is something else to consider for general readers: What aggravates me so much is not a request for what is essentially a useless waste of time space and energy, but these... well it'd get censored by a mod anyway... these people, and i use the term lightly, that spend all day playing games and throw around ideas with the belief (belief they impose on others) that designing, creating, and implementing a new feature or function is as easy as pushing a button, it astounds me that in 2011, when children in africa have laptops, there are people that are still this technologically devoid of any common sense and reason.

Pack i mean " expansion packs"

I have no comprehension issue i just dislike people who come on to topic and say no to something without giving a reason beside "It would look ugly" "Dumb idea" "Go back to FFXI/WOW" "Shut up troll" it's dumb and they should not even be on the forums if that all they going to say. Saying they should not add capes just because they think it going to look ugly is a dumb answer you can just turn it off if you dislike capes.

I can understand the spec issue but 3-5 years down the road i don't see why not. Anyways if they don't want to add capes then fine i can care less. But don't come on to a topic and say no due to you not wanting something when it can easy be fixed by display off/on. anyways this is my last post on this topic don't quote me because i can care less if they add cape or not then w/e i fine.

[MariyaShidou]

That game look noting like FFXIV you can't use a game like that because you think the capes going to look bad, And let's say the capes does look very good in FFXIV but by any bad luck you dislike it guess what? /Displaybackitem On/OFF there you go others can have there capes and you can still enjoy the game.

I didn't say the capes will look bad. Heck, if you know a bit of WH40k, you know the capes are gonna look awesome. What I meant is that Relic does manage to pull off very nice looking models (lots of details on the armour btw) and still manage high FPS with tons of models on screen, and their drawing distance is quite high as well. The cloth pieces are reasonable and it is NOT the standard carton cloth, they do flutter accordingly to your model movement.

[Scherwiz]

I don't feel that all MMO capes look silly.

Cape1

Cape2

As long as we would have the option to turn things on and off visibly, I don't see the problem.