Should this game be tailored for Final Fantasy fans or MMO fans?

[Otemori]

There's more to MMOs than FFXI and WoW...

Exactly. At least...there should be. To prove that point, the market will soon be producing new competition. For example, we'll see how the new Lucas Arts MMO fairs against Blizzard and SE with its full voice over, personal ship features, and individualized storylines. Storylines which, I would think, a rich name like Final Fantasy should be able to compete with.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

honestly about the jump thing

Think ppl getting paranoid for something silly. I've played WoW, DCUO, Aion, and perfect world international. All these games have jump, and I personally rarely seen "bunny hoppers". I bunny hopped a few times, only to have contests with ppl in WoW with who can do a flip the most times in a roll. Its not as bad you guys. And are being silly. Think at most in 1-2 years on WoW i'v seen about 5 bunny hoppers. And it was like a mnth or two between each sighting. If you want say collision back we will need a jump to jump over doorway/pathway blockers. And since eveyone here don;t like bunny hoppers I don't think we will see them. XD

[ShinChuck]

I just like the attitude of, "It annoys me visually, so the game should be less convenient so my eyes aren't offended."

Let's follow the logic further. Seeing people RUN everywhere is annoying, nobody can run that fast that long. So we should remove running, because it annoys me visually and it's unrealistic. Heck, we could apply that to numerous other things - crafting, which looks totally unrealistic, spells, which don't exist...

[gifthorse]

It needs to be tailored to both to survive.h

My point behind the original post is that FFXIV needs to stop tailoring to ANYONE. The developers need to decide, before anything, what will be an interesting and fun concept and then introduce that in its own way without being hampered by what FFXI players want nor with what WoW players want. They need to simply assess things on their own merits without worrying about age-old FF traditions or obiding by the status quo.

There is so much room for progressoin and improvement in the MMO industry and FFXIV just isn't embracing that when the only suggestions it hears are calls for WoW-style instances and FFXI-style classes.

Move on.

[Xzen]

Should cater to Final Fantasy fans first.

[gifthorse]

I just like the attitude of, "It annoys me visually, so the game should be less convenient so my eyes aren't offended."

Let's follow the logic further. Seeing people RUN everywhere is annoying, nobody can run that fast that long. So we should remove running, because it annoys me visually and it's unrealistic. Heck, we could apply that to numerous other things - crafting, which looks totally unrealistic, spells, which don't exist...

I know right. And the thing is, jumping wouldn't even be as much of an eye-sore compared to most of the things you mentioned.

[gifthorse]

Should cater to Final Fantasy fans first.

Care to elaborate?

[Zenaku]

Reason they look at FFXI players is well we like the game, I know i show my wow players friend ffxi/ffxiv and there like ahhh no thanks. They just don't like hardest they want everything handed to them i play real wow and i can say this 80+% of wow players are full of it and 45% of them say it true. Blizzard don't care about there players only the $ they get and wow players can say it's true.

I loved ffxi because it was something hard it give me something to work on if FFXIV can do that for them then i'll play it for 6+years like i did for ffxi and that the reason i think they looking at ffxi players more.

[Verecund]

They should consider introducing convenient features, while mainly focusing on telling an interesting and engaging story with ground-breaking and dynamicly-driven content.

[trinta]

I just like the attitude of, "It annoys me visually, so the game should be less convenient so my eyes aren't offended."

This is possibly a more concise statement of what I'm saying. We shouldn't advocate that the Western playerbase be largely disregarded, simply because sometimes they jump when they're bored.