Realm Reborn = downgrade?

[Elexia]

The current animations were not the cause of the unresponsiveness. Server lag was.

Oh please you don't know what you're talking about clearly. Animations were the reason I was constantly disconnecting and took 30 minutes to buy or sell from an NPC at launch.

I mean nevermind the fact they significantly sped up the process over time without changing the animations one bit. So clearly the animations were the root of all evil with XIV's poor launch. They spent so much time on animations that they had no time for content, clearly wasn't the main complaint.

[Nemy]

Oh please you don't know what you're talking about clearly. Animations were the reason I was constantly disconnecting and took 30 minutes to buy or sell from an NPC at launch.

I mean nevermind the fact they significantly sped up the process over time without changing the animations one bit. So clearly the animations were the root of all evil with XIV's poor launch. They spent so much time on animations that they had no time for content, clearly wasn't the main complaint.

Reaction sequence :

-Oh, a reply quoting me let's see...

-Ah, they're about to address animation and server lag, lets see...

you don't know what you're talking about clearly.

-But... i do, bracing for epic fail

Animations were the reason I was constantly disconnecting

-/faceplam there's the epic fail

and took 30 minutes to buy or sell from an NPC at launch.

-Oh, it's sarcastic! LOL

-Looks at Name

-Elexia

-Like

-Enjoy the rest of sarcastic post.

[Soukyuu]

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.

You have to write bigger, people tend to skip over things. Also, lol@above

[Nemy]

You have to write bigger, people tend to skip over things. Also, lol@above

People like you makes going through all these uneducated posts worthwhile.

Thank you for being in the position to clearly understand what i'm saying i guess.

[Verytus]

Hello all,

Seems like the thread has degenerated a bit and so I have to ask for people to stay focused on the discussion and not to engage in personal attacks on one another. This is a really big thread with a lot of great content, and I don't want to have to lock it, so help me out on this one. Let's stick to the topic and keep it civilized, please.

Thank You,

-Verytus

[Nemy]

Hello all,

Seems like the thread has degenerated a bit and so I have to ask for people to stay focused on the discussion and not to engage in personal attacks on one another. This is a really big thread with a lot of great content, and I don't want to have to lock it, so help me out on this one. Let's stick to the topic and keep it civilized, please.

Thank You,

-Verytus

Noted.

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[Cer]

After going about my business yesterday and taking the time to read every post since I posted, I sort of get why Nemy is so upset, and the others. Those animations were really interesting and did provide a nice, albeit very first world, touch.

The following is purely a question and not meant to be some sarcastic question. I heard somewhere that the way we move our characters is changing in 2.0. I saw Yoshi strafing more, wouldn't that mean that the quick turn to run animation wouldn't ever need to be used? The turning animations should definitely be in the game however, there isn't much reason for those to not be in there, and i do have confidence that SE (who are are in love with having great graphics) would put at least those in.

EDIT: I see that this is in fact the case and I still see where people want the animations, but I also get their removal. The stopping seems like a good thing to put in if its not... but I will say the stopping does feel awkward to me in current version, while it looks nice, I feel like I have to predict the slowdown of my character and stop prior to the end point. (which is totally logical) Meaning I have to release the key before the point which I want to stop, which i'm used to now, but would be an annoying thing for a new player.

I still think most users who haven't played FFXIV 1.0 wouldn't complain about it. I feel like we complain because we've been a bit spoiled by it. For a time the game used to be nothing but its great animations. (or so it seemed) I hope SE can find a way to please everyone, but in my experience in life, that just won't happen.

[Starlord]

After going about my business yesterday and taking the time to read every post since I posted, I sort of get why Nemy is so upset, and the others. Those animations were really interesting and did provide a nice, albeit very first world, touch.

The following is purely a question and not meant to be some sarcastic question. I heard somewhere that the way we move our characters is changing in 2.0. I saw Yoshi strafing more, wouldn't that mean that the quick turn to run animation wouldn't ever need to be used? The turning animations should definitely be in the game however, there isn't much reason for those to not be in there, and i do have confidence that SE (who are are in love with having great graphics) would put at least those in.

I still think most users who haven't played FFXIV 1.0 wouldn't complain about it. I feel like we complain because we've been a bit spoiled by it. For a time the game used to be nothing but its great animations. (or so it seemed) I hope SE can find a way to please everyone, but in my experience in life, that just won't happen.

I do agree that we been spoiled to the point where if 2.0 has something missing all hell will break loose :P. If 2.0 was the Original FFXIV, would we still be here complaints about the animations? That remains a mystery :P.

[Cer]

I do agree that we been spoiled to the point where if 2.0 has something missing all hell will break loose :P. If 2.0 was the Original FFXIV, would we still be here complaints about the animations? That remains a mystery :P.

Maybe the only way to maintain sanity is to really and literally forget EVERYTHING in 1.0. Forget it ever happened and treat ARR as a completely new game. I think that's what S.E. wants from us anyway. OR at least that's seemingly what they're trying to pull off.

[Starlord]

Maybe the only way to maintain sanity is to really and literally forget EVERYTHING in 1.0. Forget it ever happened and treat ARR as a completely new game. I think that's what S.E. wants from us anyway. OR at least that's seemingly what they're trying to pull off.

If everyone were to treat this game as a "Brand New game w/ perks", then I could even be agreeing with some of these concerns. But I just feel that, some of these concerns are brought up because 2.0 is taking away from 1.0. If they forgot 1.0 even existed. I wonder how the comments would be in terms of "What the Quality truly is" and not " They took this away from FFXIV now its going to fail" type attitude.