Petition: Keep the Animation!~

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The one Yoshi and his team keep talking about.
The one they used to redesign the interface.
The one they used to add features like quick group.
The one they used to focus on the 'themepark' style.

Interface works perfectly in this standart => keep them
Quick group is a bad idea i agree with you
FF11 was a theme park , 1.0 was also one , don't see what they would change these .

[HiirNoivl]

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Don't just throw around wild theories. Maybe if you didn't I would know what you're talking about other than being emotional over animations that add nothing to the game play and last about 0.5 seconds.

[Gramul]

Interface works perfectly in this standart => keep them
Quick group is a bad idea i agree with you
FF11 was a theme park , 1.0 was also one , don't see what they would change these .

I'm already saying I'm cool with the UI standard, I'm just pointing out to Hear No Evil that Yoshi himself said he's trying to bring it to the 'MMO standard'

The result is a game that Yoshida claims lives up to the "global MMO standard."

This is also change that is based on MMORPG standard.

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and why standart animation for our character running ( seriously the idea that there is multiple way to walk is kinda stupid ...)

[Riv]

Never thought i'd say this but i kind of agree with Rokien. I don't want those bland, empty looking animations =/

[Nox]

I dont really care that they took those animations away. Of course I would like them to be there still, as they were nice. However, seeing as they seem to have done it in order to make gameplay smoother I am perfectly fine with them being taken away. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the removal itself had at least a little to do with scaling the game to run well on a ps3.

[Rokien]

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Don't just throw around wild theories. Maybe if you didn't I would know what you're talking about other than being emotional over animations that add nothing to the game play and last about 0.5 seconds.

woooow you are joking right? Content finder, level sync, ui, instances, theme park. Everythign yoshi is doing, is just what every other mmo has done in a different skin. He himself said he wants to standardize this game. He himself likes WoW and other theme park games. He had to explain the staff what the "standard" was.

You are ssoooooo in denial same with everyone else around here.

Oh, lets not forget about JUMP. He justs want's that for asthetics, nothing more, nothing less. It serves no real purpose, also another standard.

So why take out nice aesthetics and add crappy ones is beyond me.

[Ingolf]

I wouldn't worry too much.
They recently said that the weapon animations weren't added yet, so I'm guessing that applies to our transition animations too. In any case, I think we need to find out if it's really being removed or not before we jump the gun.

It's really being removed, because Square is stupid and this community is so starved that they'll accept anything from Square as long as they say they're 'doing it for the gameplay'.

Ayup. I wouldn't mention it though, you'll just get hundreds of threads mocking your slight grievance with the game, without understanding it. (grass)

[HiirNoivl]

I'm already saying I'm cool with the UI standard, I'm just pointing out to Hear No Evil that Yoshi himself said he's trying to bring it to the 'MMO standard'

Thanks, now point to me where it says that this change is connected to the MMO standard.

Because frankly, I don't see it.

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And so Final Fantasy XIV lives on, but the game is almost unrecognizable. The visuals have been greatly improved, powered as they are by a new graphics engine, which Yoshida says needed to be as impressive as possible, thanks to the long life span of the MMO. The animation engine has been overhauled too, with the niggling lag that made the game feel so sluggish now eliminated.

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adding the jumping is not a crappy aesthetic it's so that it don't become ridiculous that your char can't jump from a 1 m cliff ...