Realm Reborn = downgrade?

[Nemy]

Actually, this is pre-alpha,

Actually, this is pretty much alpha state, since Yoshida just stated that the alpha starts in less than a month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_737h...ilpage#t=3659s

And it sure doesn't make any sense to present the game yet another time with severed animations, days before the alpha, if its not intended to be this way. Again i don't claim to know, i just think that its a very plausible scenario.

Like Neptune said, character animation is a fundamental aspect of the game.

When players are allowed to test the game...

...it would probably be too late for them to change such a core aspect of the game. (as it already been said multiple times in this thread)

thus leading...

...to the animation staying in such a downgraded state.

What we need, is for a clarification, and if the animation is intended to be what we see in these videos, and the developers actually care about our opinion, to start working as soon as possible on the issue, even if that means pushing the alpha date. (i'm sure most of the people that share my concern would rather have a quality animation rather than a earlier alpha)

Threads like this accomplish nothing

Actually posts like yours accomplish nothing aside from bumping threads like this. If you don't care, or you think this is a non issue, you can simply... not reply, and everyone will be happy as a taru-train in lower Jeuno in new year's eve.

Also, again, we're not only talking about running transitions here. The whole character animation as you know it (besides the weaponskills/casting) ,from running to stopping to strafing to actually run after a 180 degree turn, are replaced by a generic downgraded typical-for-a-korean-mmo animation. We now actually see backpedaling without having a lock on a target.

So please, don't try to be-little our concern, we're not suffering from OCD, stop treating us like we do.