Quote Originally Posted by Wilhelmina View Post
It's for easily scaling terrain and such, hopping over things that you shouldn't have to walk around to get passed. It would also open up lots of interesting fight mechanics for late-game content and also add in more interesting dungeon maps, and plenty more...It isn't really hard to see the importance of a fun and simple feature.
I finally got a serious answer other than "It's needed because yes!". Now I can go to hell for this =)

Then wouldn't it suffice a FFXIII-like jumping? (A.k.A Auto-jump to avoid some terrain)