Jumping confirmed

[grandm]

i just hope they allow all the trolls and all the WoW clone wannabes the ability to jump off LL's bridges :P

[Bayohne]

Just gonna drop in here and clear up the fact that the jumping animations that were shown were just test animations and Yoshida felt the height was too high/over-the-top so things are still being adjusted. They weren't 100% finalized, finished animations but just a sample video to show off for fun during the LIVE broadcast.

That said, please continue with Jump discussion #2104.

[Zoltan]

It occurs to me that they really should be more customer conscious. Is it more prudent to add a feature that does nothing to add to game experience and makes your current customers dislike your product, or to add the feature and drive those people away.

I'm not saying that lots of people will quit playing over this issue, but there will be some.

Honestly, will people stop playing if they do not add this feature?

[Keith_Dragoon]

Just gonna drop in here and clear up the fact that the jumping animations that were shown were just test animations and Yoshida felt the height was too high/over-the-top so things are still being adjusted. They weren't 100% finalized, finished animations but just a sample video to show off for fun during the LIVE broadcast.

That said, please continue with Jump discussion #2104.

erm this is well beyond #2104 I think we may have passed the 4000 milestone on this one

[Laughlyn]

the look of "Jumping" looked allright to me, nothing super fancy & looked smooth.
And yes abit too high, maybe drop it down 15-20%.

Not a big fan of Jump feature, unless its needed for some platform
jumping content, neverthless something new / fun perhaps. meh

(Did enjoy jumping around like an idiot in WoW thou...lol)

[Estellios]

There will obviously be jumping related things. Would be nice to jump up and fight on top of a giant enemy for some phase of a large-scale battle.

It's like the stupid giant cake, they wouldn't add it if they didn't have any plans for it.

[Delsus]

erm this is well beyond #2104 I think we may have passed the 4000 milestone on this one

It may seem like that, but I'm sure Bayohne counted them all, he such a good rep, i'm sure he would do that for us

[Reinheart]

From unofficial live letter translation: http://goo.gl/tMzrF

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F: Q: it's not mentioned in the 2.0 docs but whats going on with jump or swimming?
Y: For 2.0 we are remodeling all the maps so it requires lots of checks, so we’re talking about including this with 2.0 but just ending with that is kind of sad so here is one more spoiler, and this one is movie too



F: it jumped
Y: this one I said it’s jumping too high and said no to this one but strangely when it’s with this guy


(lalafel jumping)

F: it’s jumping the same height?
Y: yeah same height but when it’s with him it doesn’t feel too much awkward, however this height is too comical so we’re still making adjustments like this and testing.

Also for swimming this will be after 2.0 but instead of just being able to swim we want to add stuff like underwater temple, or raid using water, and we’re talking about what to do about breathing air. We want to do it, we’re not to a point yet to tell the dev on what stance to develop this in yet, this will be after.

[Anonymoose]

I'm glad Yoshida-san agreed the jump was a little over-dramatic. Though, if anyone wearing Dragoon armor jumps like that, I'll give them a pass.

[Zoltan]

There will obviously be jumping related things. Would be nice to jump up and fight on top of a giant enemy for some phase of a large-scale battle.

It's like the stupid giant cake, they wouldn't add it if they didn't have any plans for it.

I don't believe it. Unless, by chance, you are a developer at Square Enix?

Why would that be nice?

Seems pointless. Fix party alliances, loot drop management, looking for group, linkshell management, server lag, /random, inventory sorting, AH and a multitude of other issues before even comtemplating the addition of jump.

On second thought, just fix the problems and forget about jump.