Auto-attack

[Betelgeuzah]

-Language Barriers (yay for auto-translate)

You can already use auto translate with the current system because it is so efficient. he<tab>enter. nic<tab>enter. I<tab>enter.

-Pick-up groups..

..have their own channel.

-PS3 players ~ SE will NOT develop an in-game voice chat system, and they already made that point clear, for reasons of development cost as well as harassment control.

They already made it clear that jumping is not coming. Then Tanaka got kicked out of the house. Whatever they said pre-xmas 2010 is irrelevant.

Using ventrilo with your guild is one thing. But making assertions that everyone should be using voice chat all of the time is silly.

Only if you want to talk so much. What is silly though, is that because a minority of players does not, for some reason or the other, want to use a voice chat the gameplay should be automated and resources should be used just for the sake of these pretty little unique snowflakes.

I see a lot of people claiming that you can do "something else" instead of actually playing the game, and they're all excuses- because a game should never encourage you to "not play the game". N e v e r. It doesn't really matter what it is that you're doing instead of playing. What matters is that you're not playing the game and the game encourages you to do so.

I'd like to point out that if I didn't have to manually perform my basic attacks, I would be able to use my other abilities much more efficiently.

And I'd like to point out that you're pretty horrible at playing vidya games, and I don't want the game to be automated because you can't keep up. As if XIII wasn't already enough.

But facing facts.. the majority of players believe that FFXIV's battle system is a step backwards from the FFXI battle system. It needs to be changed.

Yes, facing facts... many of XIV's features were changed from XI just for the sake of change, and they failed. Now they are doing it again. And people are encouraging them to do so. Once again. When do you people learn? Worse than not changing something that is broken is changing something mindlessly just because it is broken. That does no good and those resources can be used elsewhere.

[Grit]

You can already use auto translate with the current system because it is so efficient. he<tab>enter. nic<tab>enter. I<tab>enter.

That is an argument.. how?

They already made it clear that jumping is not coming. Then Tanaka got kicked out of the house. Whatever they said pre-xmas 2010 is irrelevant.

I vaguely remember Yoshi-P mentioning voice chat as well, but I can't be certain. In any case, an integrated voice chat system is not going to happen. And I'm content with that knowledge.

Only if you want to talk so much. What is silly though, is that because a minority of players does not, for some reason or the other, want to use a voice chat the gameplay should be automated and resources should be used just for the sake of these pretty little unique snowflakes.

For the record, people who don't use voice chat are in fact the majority in most MMOs. And with FFXIV being cross-region and cross-platform.. they will always be the majority.. Even if the game DID have an integrated voice chat system. You can say things like that all you want, but that doesn't make it true. This isn't Halo.

I see a lot of people claiming that you can do "something else" instead of actually playing the game, and they're all excuses- because a game should never encourage you to "not play the game". N e v e r. It doesn't really matter what it is that you're doing instead of playing. What matters is that you're not playing the game and the game encourages you to do so.

Did you even read my post? Did you even play FFXIV? Even with auto-attack, you would never be standing there doing nothing.

And I'd like to point out that you're pretty horrible at playing vidya games, and I don't want the game to be automated because you can't keep up. As if XIII wasn't already enough.

Seriously... if you still think that auto-attack would be "automating gameplay" then you'll never be persuaded otherwise. But at least describe your thought process without making personal attacks.