Alpha First Look: Video 3 - The Black Shroud

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You would be surprised how many people (outside of the FF fanbase) were turned off by the lack of a standard jump feature on XIV. Leaving something that standard out of a new MMO just gets people wondering why it's left out. Having to walk around a little tiny fence is redundant. Having said that, While the animation isn't perfect, I would only accept an improvement (visually) if it didn't delay the jump at all. I don't want my character to squat completely, then jump, then land and have to balance himself, just so that the animation looks realistic. I'm all for making the game look better, but not at the expense of game-play mechanics.

Yeah, I do not like how FFXI and FFXIV 1.0 have invisible walls. Having a jump forces you do not have these invisible walls which is a great improvement. What I'd really like is something like Zelda 64 where you automatically jump when you push against something you can jump over, but it is too late for that I think.

I wouldn't be for a delay in the beginning and end of the jump. This isn't the original Prince of Persia. Just a "one leg in front of the other" jump you do when you are running.