My only problem with jumping is that 99% of jumps will be done out of boredom.

[Anapingofness]

List of things they need to add following jump:

Pogo sticks
Back flips
Front flips
Barrel Rolls
Jumping on mounts
Double-jump
Wall jumps

A Barrel Roll you say...?
That may just be too awesome for the likes of FFXIV!
That's crazeh talk lady!

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[RemVye]

A Barrel Roll you say...?
That may just be too awesome for the likes of FFXIV!
That's crazeh talk lady!

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... o O; Sorry.. but I mean, I do hope you're just being facetious...

100% serious actually.... well the pogo sticks was a little joke, but the rest of it was serious.

[Nakiamiie]

100% serious actually.... well the pogo sticks was a little joke, but the rest of it was serious.

Flips, wall jumps, double jumps and mount jumps would be awesome indeed!
But barrel roll? How do you barrel roll jump (sorry, I keep seeing an arwing)? With your flying mount?

[RemVye]

Flips, wall jumps, double jumps and mount jumps would be awesome indeed!
But barrel roll? How do you barrel roll jump (sorry, I keep seeing an arwing)? With your flying mount?

If there's a will, there's a way! I'd tap ZZ or RR probably.

[Nakiamiie]

If there's a will, there's a way! I'd tap ZZ or RR probably.

Hahahaha!
Yes, maybe having a jump where you roll on your side in the air to evade an attack. More like an automated animation when evading occurs... in mid air.

[Onidemon]

This is exactly what it's going to be, since Yoshida did mention the word "Emote" in conjunction with Jump. So unless that changes, it is just an animation to make people not feel tied down to the world.

That was before 2.0 and the new engine was announced. If you've seen the video from the last letter, it is clearly not an emote. unless you can run "emote /jump" to be able to jump forward which sounds ridiculous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-TMlzgZ528

[DNO]

That was before 2.0 and the new engine was announced. If you've seen the video from the last letter, it is clearly not an emote. unless you can run "emote /jump" to be able to jump forward which sounds ridiculous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-TMlzgZ528

ooo man thats the first time i saw jump and wow that looks so cool. I can not wait for it.

[Onidemon]

ooo man thats the first time i saw jump and wow that looks so cool. I can not wait for it.

Yup and that's just pre-alpha animations, it will be a lot better in the final version.

[Sheth]

Yeah, exactly. They are just going to stop development on jump and the new zones with jump in mind all for a loud mouthed minority with a barbaric MMO agenda. That is totally in their best interest.

Haven't you stopped to think that with 2.0 they don't want to shoot for a niche market of players like yourselves? That's what FFXI was and SE was comfortable with that. They were comfortable with making another MMO for the same group of people til it failed. Maybe they want to be bigger and not lock out a market that is starving for the next best MMO. It's actually a really good time for them to redevelop the game and release 2.0. Leaving out these MMO standards would be a terrible representation of a next gen MMO. Something they are going for.

Sorry. Your niche MMO is dead and is slowly being developed into a more mainstream market in mind. Get over it.

some would say you obviously haven't played 11, others would say you did and you just don't get either 11 or 14....they have nothing in common except the name even now with the new team. I would say you have no clue what you are talking about. 14 failed because they tried to make it more open to casual players. Every Yoshida article states that they need to put more content for hardcore players.

[Nakiamiie]

That was before 2.0 and the new engine was announced. If you've seen the video from the last letter, it is clearly not an emote. unless you can run "emote /jump" to be able to jump forward which sounds ridiculous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-TMlzgZ528

Wow! It's really awesome!
I don't feel the jump is too high for a Final Fantasy title either.
Can't wait to see the final product.