Quote Originally Posted by Engel View Post
Is this really going on right now? I've been playing this game enough to know that these "Animation" gave a lack of control over your character, it was a huuuuuuuuuuge issue and it was talked about multiple times, this is why these animations were removed.
If they can bring back those animations without loosing character control than that's fine, if not, deal with it.

The FF community is so inconsistent, first they ask for things like these to be removed and now they want them back...
The current animations were not the cause of the unresponsiveness. Server lag was.

When you pressed W or forward in the controller, your character moves forward. The animation is 0.5 second and the character is probably already moving forward at its final speed. The animation is there only to create the illusion of gaining momentum.

This is evident in other games too, that have no server lag, such as GW2, that even emphasizes dodging enemy attacks in real time. Their inertia and momentum gaining is not an issue.

This thing is being explained multiple times in this thread, so please, before you make yet another post with the same argument, read the thread.

In short, the people complaining about the animations back then, were completely wrong.