Why is everyone just jumping around in the alpha footage?

[dragnorak]

werent they jumping off the cliffs

[HiranaiVashai]

Alright, here are my thoughts what actually happened. It wasn't completely a stress test as in an 'actual test'. I think most people here are right. People emoting and jumping mostly to get attention and be noticed by the camera. If you didn't notice, some eventually managed themselves closer to the viewport of the live stream's client. And they had to pretty much watch live as well to see.

In the previous live letter, some others went and found Y-P while he was explaining content and changes without the client displaying a stream. And seeing the R0 fest because of the 1.0 server, people might have wondered about the stability for 2.0 servers. In the 2 hour break (for dinner and getting ready), they probably thought to catch 2 birds with 1 stone this way. Let the dev teams as well as alpha testers have their moment in the spotlight, as well as showing people that the issues we experienced at the end will be very much less likely to happen in 2.0.

Remember that 'the gates were open' to all who had previously played and freely participate in the final battle. SE might have underestimated the turn up a little and the servers just couldn't handle hundreds of characters. And what we had on our servers might have been a hand full compared to what Y-P had surrounding him.

Added: Even if there was little combat displayed, it also showed that there weren't issues with that. And people pretty much started to R0 and d/c by just standing around while monsters spawned in specially emptied areas. With lagging emotes, declining ability for party invites, and area crashes while other parts worked fine.

[Trenma]

The amount of characters displayed is huge, and that alpha players are lemmings running off cliffs.

Haha, that's exactly what I said to my GF while i was watching it.

"Look, Lemmings!!!"

[Bastok_Iamtheone]

seriously though can everyone just stop fucking crying for five hours max? not even a full day. just a few hours. can you do that?

you people are the most insufferable lot of players i've ever had the misfortune of encountering. it's like you have some version of tourettes where you get random ticks of bitching and crying and moaning instead of cursing

Did I hear a Summon? Did you summon me Verily....

[Riv]

This is why i was against jumping. But no, nobody listened to my warnings of bunny hopping.

[Nakiami]

I can't imagine this song going well for some people.

Especially this...



I fail to see how jumping is annoying, or even bunny hopping for that matter. I grew up playing FPS games that didn't have jumping limitations, I'm used to this stuff. I guess people aren't, and when people can come up with something other than "stupid, ridiculous, annoying" or whatever insult and can actually come up with an intelligent response to why they dislike bunny hopping I might be able to understand them.

So please tell me, why does it look stupid? I can bunny hop in real life, so don't even try to say it's not realistic.

[Makwa]

Man, am I gonna love jumping. Gonna jump on that ledge, then I'm gonna jump OFF that ledge.
Gonna re-name myself Mario Mario and be the jumping hero Eorzea deserves.

[KairiSgheart]

hehe i have nothing against jumping, kind of welcome it. but when u said about mario. i just ahd to laugh haha. i can imagine some1 making a video with super mario music at the back as he/she jumps onto mobs :P or the adamantoise!

[KiriA500]

This is why i was against jumping. But no, nobody listened to my warnings of bunny hopping.

[PSxpert2011]

People who /jump in game cant IRL. Let the kids /jump! :P