I'm not at all a huge forum poster, but seeing how this thread has developed and the live demo we saw yesterday I feel the need to chime in.

The animations are currently unacceptable. There is no reason why we can't have nice animations. If the dev team is so concerned about them getting in the way of combat the solution is very simple.

Allow abilities to clip animations.

Your welcome SE. Oh and welcome to the year 2012. The game can look good the way it deserves and you've got your combat response. I believe both are critical in an MMO today. Especially one that must remove the stain of it's history like this one must.

This game was a huge embarrasing failure and everyone in the world knew it. Despite that we continue to play but were not enough. You need to win the hearts and minds of 10 times as many poeple.

Restore the proper animations and allow them to be clipped.

Also the basic character movement is atrocious. Look.... I'll play this game no matter what. But for the masses who only remember the epic failure this game was..... this game has to be a grand slam, far beyond the rest.

Make this happen SE. We've all heard "oh it's only alpha"/"oh it's only beta" too many times before.

It's now or never