Dear Akihiko Matsui

[zaviermhigo]

He was also the battle designer for XI, so remember it hurts his feelings when you diss XI's battle system ; ;. (not saying this post did, just reminding people lol)

We should keep saying random crap loosely tied to this guys post, so it gets like 300 posts and then they'll for sure look at it, I would like guard/shield questions answered for sure. This post deserved to be read before flame threads lol!!!!

[gifthorse]

Guard and shield can still work with auto-attack since it's not like Guard stops you from being able to attack.

[Ark_mage2]

I have faith that he has developed the next evolution in RPG battle systems...

[Arcell]

He was also the battle designer for XI, so remember it hurts his feelings when you diss XI's battle system ; ;. (not saying this post did, just reminding people lol)

No system is perfect, I'm sure he can design something better than XI's system this time.

[Seirra_Lanzce]

bump for greater justices!

[Zenaku]

bump"bump"bump i agree i want to know all that info also

[Rydin]

Thanks for all of the support...

[zaviermhigo]

No system is perfect, I'm sure he can design something better than XI's system this time.

That was a quote lol, almost verbatim of what he had said in a dev post. He was quoted saying he thought XI's battle system was perfect, so don't quote me saying that lol, go quote him.

[Arcell]

Hello adventurers of FFXIV! This is battle lead Akihiko Matsui.

I would like to take this moment to explain the current plans we have in place.

First off, once the future battle balance and battle system adjustments take place, we feel that the implementation of auto-attack is quite necessary. Please embrace this as just one of the many necessary revamps needed to create more interesting and strategy rich battles as well as solve the tediousness of having to spam a button.

With this said, I do not feel that the implementation of auto-attack will solve everything. In other threads there have been many topics coming up about what is going to happen to the stamina gauge and claim system, how classes should have unique qualities and stats, what’s going to happen with monsters, raid dungeons, equipment, etc. I have looked over all of the great number of elements and at the current stage feel that without implementing auto-attack that the future battle system would be impossible.

Compared to the FFXI auto-attack system, we are thinking about making the auto-attack system for FFXIV have a shorter attack delay. (This has been a heated debate on the forum, and having been lead of FFXI please forgive me for bringing it up as a point of comparison. There is no "better" or "worse" system.)

The objective here is not to lower the battle difficulty. The main objective here, when thinking about battles rich in strategy, pace, and exhilaration, is instead of having to time regular attacks, we will be preparing situations that require proper timing of abilities, magic, and weapon skills. Following this, weaker enemies are a different story, but we will make sure it’s balanced so you can’t win a fight just by using auto-attack.

Due to the fact we still have a lot of elements that need to be tested and looked into, it is difficult for me to tell you any more info in great detail, but if you give me some time I will do my best to share the information with you. Thank you!

I dunno, sounds like he isn't really saying XI's battle system was perfect. And honestly if he really does think there's no way to make such a system any better, he's just not thinking hard enough on it.

[Hikozaemon]

Nothing was wrong w/ ff11s battle system besides it was lacking just a little more meat(which they have worked hard to add onto the past 3years and done a damn good job). Infact the shield blocking system in ff11 was far superior too ff14s and i hope they change ff14s into the same system. They also need to take a piece of the ws system in ff11 too cus having the same animation for every single ws w/ just shiny effects isnt cutting it at this point and im sure they are aware of this. It will be entertaining when they do add new animations and class only abilites and people start whining they cant use them on all there melee classes/jobs. And as unnatural as it seems to have auto attk spammin my damn finger on 1/2 keys every 3 secs is even more so lame and unnatural. It also hinders players and almost makes them dependant on using voice chat because its damn near impossible in some situations to communicate thru text chat in ff14 while killing a monster/NM. I could type a wall of text in ff11 while fighting a hard HNM(they use to exist lol) on any job usually WHM w/o any probs you just cant do that in ff14.