Quote Originally Posted by bobbygunz View Post
And if you want to talk about glitchy, look no further than the knockback/draw-in animations in this game, or lackthereof.

Oh nevermind, i forgot you don't actually play so wouldn't know.
Actually I know about this quite well because I got knocked out of BoE and into a hole in the world before while fighting regular enemies like Hippogryphs and the Buffalo mobs -- It's the first thing I noticed compared to being knock backed in FFXI. When they said glitchy they were referring to the animation itself which at the time, it likely was returning a glitchy animation.

Q: Can chocobo jump as well?
A:Yoshida: For that my comment will be different (laugh) When chocobo is landing it requires lots of animation so when you jump with it, it’s going to look funny so I’m saying I don’t want it but for those playing foreign MMO they are saying they want to fly while riding chocobo! even if it has cartoon taste and deformed characters but with XIV’s realistic graphics it might not be right. Of course it’s possible to make it fly technically.
This was his words, not mine -- Obviously they got around it but the reason that it wasn't confirmed at first was because of the engine they personally used with FFXIV -- Just look at FFXIII and XIII-2, the jumping with chocobos was very off at times to the point you wonder wtf is going on.

So yes, MMO A and B does it but that doesn't mean XIV was able to do it and Yoshida explained why it wasn't possible. however they got around it and if you look at the demonstration you can tell they still have some tweaking to do with it.