Why do you want auto-attack? (discussion)[dev1022]

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Yes that would be it. i hate every autoattack MMO, and i am deeply unhappy they are breaking FFXIV <_<

And NO, not all MMOs use autoatack. All WOW clones use autoattack.

Look at nice and fun system in Fallen Earth, it is what i call i nice game system. Interesting, engaging.

Returning to XIV.

Those who spam 1 will benefit most from AA, as they will just point, click, and chat with tiher people. The game wont change for them , as they will believe that basic aytoattack will give them more DPS than skills anyway. those who use skills, wont be able to chat, as you will be using skill every 2-3 autoswings, or actually much more, so almost no change for them. Only one will be those who liked engagement and immersion for initiating all attacks, and they will loose that.

Yeah, to be honest, I never thought I'd see the day where FFXIV had aggro-indicators, let alone auto-attack and NPC quests with exclamation bubbles.

It's like they can't make this game into WoW fast enough. Between the upcoming companies (more NPC quests) and auto-attack, it just seems like this game is slowly degenerating into a blandfest.

The Private Company ships and housing, among other things like PvP, all slated for release under Tanaka were reasons why I was still playing the game. It's sad to think that in Yoshi's bid to improve the game, all he has done is broken the combat system.

If there was one good thing that to come out of yoshi's development it was the promise of a more role-oriented spin on the armory system and a "jump" system.

Unfortunately the latter of those has been canned... and who wants to bet that yoshi will destroy the armory system too? Seems to be something he would do.

If you're going to take something from WoW, you don't take the things that make it shit (exclamation mark quests, easymode), you take the things that make it good: wealth of content, jump, etc.

If FFXIV had kept with the active combat system and improved on everything, bringing in Private Companies and giving them something to work toward, FFXIV might have had a chance to compete in the market. As it stands, creating more lame quests, no jump, automated combat, easymode... none of this will give it a fighting chance against the games coming out this year.

I don't mean to be presumptuous, but come on. It's obvious.