Swimming in 4.0 [Disscussion]

[Remus]

I personally don't like how they are adding swimming. It just seems so wasted compared to flying. Once I get the aether currents what need would I have to go in there beside gathering or being forced to go in there? I just hope they don't invest too much into swimming then in the end its not used much. From what they showed just seems like "hey we have swimming now! for reasons!". I am glad you can't fight in water but any game which has swimming ended up just being a waste and never done right. Which is why most games not don't invest much into swimming now... it's just not worth it for a way of travel.

[Cleftobismal]

I personally don't like how they are adding swimming. It just seems so wasted compared to flying.

You like flying. I like swimming.

[Renius]

I personally don't like how they are adding swimming. It just seems so wasted compared to flying. Once I get the aether currents what need would I have to go in there beside gathering or being forced to go in there? I just hope they don't invest too much into swimming then in the end its not used much. From what they showed just seems like "hey we have swimming now! for reasons!". I am glad you can't fight in water but any game which has swimming ended up just being a waste and never done right. Which is why most games not don't invest much into swimming now... it's just not worth it for a way of travel.

I bet they will limit it to zones where you cannot fly. I don't think this will be a traveling method more like an option to go underwater and maybe also add some quests.

[Kosmos992k]

From what they showed just seems like "hey we have swimming now! for reasons!". I am glad you can't fight in water but any game which has swimming ended up just being a waste and never done right. Which is why most games not don't invest much into swimming now... it's just not worth it for a way of travel.

What would be the problem is swimming were added just for the sheer heck of it? Just to allow us to play in the water? Is that so wrong?

[LionFury1]

I personally don't like how they are adding swimming. It just seems so wasted compared to flying. Once I get the aether currents what need would I have to go in there beside gathering or being forced to go in there? I just hope they don't invest too much into swimming then in the end its not used much. From what they showed just seems like "hey we have swimming now! for reasons!". I am glad you can't fight in water but any game which has swimming ended up just being a waste and never done right. Which is why most games not don't invest much into swimming now... it's just not worth it for a way of travel.

Honestly flying is just as much as an aesthetic as swimming is and isn't necessary to the game. The only thing flying does is grant us a faster mode of transportation which could have technically been fulfilled by just increasing movement speed on land. What both flying and swimming do is place things within the game out of reach if you can't fly or swim/dive. You can't reach some parts of churning mist and sea of clouds without flying, but was that super necessary? No, but is it enjoyable to the game experience to have some things be limited without being able to fly to it? Heck yeah.

For the same reason, swimming is a desirable addition because they can add dungeons and NPCs that are only accessible by diving to them that make more sense to be in water based off the lore than it would make sense to be on dry land. For example, the Sahagin beast tribe really makes zero sense being on dry land. They should have been a beast tribe we would encounter during underwater exploration. It would also add fun dimensions to dungeons also where you might have to swim through a cavern or dive within a dungeon to get to the next boss.

Having swimming allows FFXIV to have more continuity instead of weird invisible walls every time you encounter water and allows the devs to come up with unique concepts like underwater cities like Atlantis. I'm actually secretly hoping that our new residential area is a underwater residence.The housing can exist within air pockets, but the majority of the area could be underwater. It would honestly be unique and incredibly beautiful.