Jumping Risk Assessment

[Arcell]

I'm all for jumping as long as it serves a purpose. Jumping for the sake of jumping is stupid and lazy, might as well not have it at all at that point.

If it serves a purpose such as terrain navigation, avoiding obstacles or even navigating platforming segments I'm all for it. IF they added things like that then I could see jumping adding some more fun to the otherwise boring task of moving from point A to point B. Not saying they will but if they did. The only way to really answer how it would make the game more fun is to speculate situations in which it would.

If it was just there for the sake of allowing you to jump with no purpose I would of course be against it. Why add a mechanic to the game that serves no real gameplay purpose? At that point you would just have people bunny hopping around for no reason.

The one restriction I would like to see on jumping though is that it cannot take priority over any battle action. The reason for this is because in Aion people liked to use jumping as an exploit to cancel battle animations on Ranger and that was adopted as the only way to play the class for a while. It was pretty obnoxious and I'd like to not see that happen here.

[indira]

they should just keep the 5 foot cliff a obstacle, cuz you know people are gonna find ways to fall in the floor between 2 objects like teleporting threw doors and stuff like that. then cry when there banned

i vote NO for jumping.

[Illy]

I don't want jumping. The game doesn't need it nor is the game designed to take advantage of it. All adding it will do is allow idiots to jump around like monkeys non stop(just like WoW)

The only way it would work in my opinion(and TONS of others have stated the same exact thing) is if it's context sensitive as is the case in FFXIII.

The bottom line is that FFXIV has a very real look and feel to it and people jumping all over the place willy nilly will not fit in with that it will ruin the game. I don't wanna walk into town seeing everyone jumping around for no reason other then to annoying other players because they think it's funny. The other games out there that have jumping were designed with it in mind and as such makes sense to be in the game but FFXIV was not designed with it in mind so all it will be is a annoyance.

[SuzakuCMX]

Tanaka wasn't even the director of the game

This guy was.

Everybody throws around Tanaka's name because he did the PR for the game and took responsibility for the flop. Rushed design? Tanaka's fault. Inherently bad game direction? Komoto's fault.

Yoshida-P took over for both, though, so he has considerably more on his hands than either of them.

[Ilean]

Yoshida-P took over for both, though, so he has considerably more on his hands than either of them.

And between the ears.

[Rowyne]

And between the ears.

LOL, nice one.

[Vesperia]

JUmp?

Oh no, is it contagious?

[Rowyne]

I've got jump fever!

[Ilean]

Moar jumpbell!

[Nikita]

They should allow players to opt out of jumping.

/jump on
/jump off

If its on, you can jump and see people jump
If its off you can't jump or see people jump