The Ability to Ready a Spell While Casting - Why Was It Removed?

[Maiandra]

This bothers me as well, and not just for magic but for all actions. It's more difficult to get into the rhythm of a combat now. It just doesn't flow smoothly anymore. Instead, I now have to wait until after my "turn" comes up, then try to hit the button as fast as I can; but not too soon... Maybe this is somebody's answer to the complaint that FFXIV isn't a "twitch" game like "modern" MMOs (in fact that it *can't* be, ostensibly because of lag.)

The fact is, FFXIV will never be a "twitch" game because Final Fantasy is not a "twitch" game. Lag doesn't enter into it.

Also, it's kind of funny to hear people now saying the ability to "Ready" the next action helped compensate for lag when previously, people were quoting it as a brazen demonstration of lag...
The ever sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach suggests they removed it for just this reason, but that can't be true... The developers would never rewrite game mechanics just to pander to some whiner... right?

Not "ha ha" funny, but... you know... </sigh>

[Bahn]

The fact is, FFXIV will never be a "twitch" game because Final Fantasy is not a "twitch" game. Lag doesn't enter into it.

Hate to nitpick, but there was an example of having to be twitchy to play: Getting Lulu's ultimate weapon in FF10. I failed that so many times I simply gave up because I didn't have the mental patience to do that 100+ times in a row.