RPGsite Interviews Yoshi P.

[Zumi]

RPGSite: Last question… what core mechanics—if any—are being drawn from western MMO developers? Such as the option to do things like swimming and jumping?
Yoshida: I’m a very hardcore gamer, and one of the first things when I got onto FFXIV was that I wanted to add a jump feature. When I threw that out to the community, what surprised me was that a lot of players were against that idea. Their complaint was that you shouldn’t be able to jump in a FINAL FANTASY game!
Just because it’s in all the other MMOs, does it fit with the image of FINAL FANTASY? For example, people didn’t want to see Lalafells jumping all around.
Personally, I don’t like the fact that my character is bound to the ground, so I definitely want to add a jump feature.

RPGSite: That’s interesting because they added a jump option to XIII-2, and I haven’t seen much negative reaction to that.
Yoshida: Everyone probably wouldn’t mind if their character could jump, but maybe there’s a lot of people who just don’t want to see everyone else jumping!
A lot of the Japanese players of XIV that only know about that game as well as FFXI, so they’re used to having a character that can’t jump. They don’t realize that you can jump in every other MMO in the world, so they have that aversion to it.

This is why I really dislike the FF mmo community sometimes. They are so against change that even adding something that would be fun like Jump and would add to the game they have to sit there and complain about it. Stuff like jumping and flying mounts are pretty standard in any MMOs now.

[Jinko]

This is why I really dislike the FF mmo community sometimes. They are so against change that even adding something that would be fun like Jump and would add to the game they have to sit there and complain about it. Stuff like jumping and flying mounts are pretty standard in any MMOs now.

Agreed Jennestia is a good example :S

Hopefully when 2.0 comes out this game will pick up some real steam with casual gamers and ex FF11 players will no longer be the majority playing this game, because as you say they are really stopping the game from progressing, that being said Yoshi doesn't seem to paying them much heed.

[Zenaku]

This is why I really dislike the FF mmo community sometimes. They are so against change that even adding something that would be fun like Jump and would add to the game they have to sit there and complain about it. Stuff like jumping and flying mounts are pretty standard in any MMOs now.

It's not that we against wow stuff it just we know a lot of things made wow lame and killed it dungeon finder,Jump and many other stuff. I just see no point in jump not if it jumping that you only use to get over stuff and thing within the game then that fine by me.