I want to swim

[IfritReborn]

Really? The PS3 is being blamed for why were not able to swim? The PS3 is also being blamed for the world being so small?

News flash this isn't an open-world game, everything is split into zones and instances much like GW2 and SWTOR, games that aren't on consoles

SWTOR (PC Master Race Only) you also couldn't swim. Maybe stop blaming consoles and point the finger at the developers who don't want to put in effort

[Vandark]

Robotnik as the final boss.

Sounds like it would make about as much sense as ARR, it fits.

[cotti]

Gaius already went Super Sonic during the Praetorium anyway...

[AlexNiculaie]

Couldn't care less about being able to swim. Never understood the desire in a game like this, and certainly can't imagine them finding a way to make water combat not look or play awkward.

[Shioban]

I want to swim too! But unfortunately I don't think it's gonna happen. I suggested this in my thread a few months ago. As much as I love this game, you can't deny the truth in the following post:

World is super tiny, but I honestly blame the transition to the PS3. It's the same as why belts had to be removed, and other such sacrifices. The console effects are clearly seen in this game, and it's unfortunate but the quality and scope of 1.0 will never truly be seen again.

Hell we don't even have a fully featured forum that we can post in without a character size limit. Half-assed forum. Half-assed game. This is what consoles do to MMOs.

SE just wanted to recoup their dev costs and nobody can blame them for that, but if they think this is going to be the ten year long cash flow FFXI brought them, good luck.

Actually that post is incorrect.

Belts being removed was NOT a limitation based on the Playstation 3.


The belts were removed because it was limiting the design process for gear, having to compromise every piece of gear to suit belts to go ontop of it and reworking each belt to fit each set of gear was a mammoth and un-nessecary task, which is why newer gear simply has a belt designed ontop of it (if suitable) for example the Foe Strikers Body;

http://xivmodels.com/?item/3034/Foestriker's-Tabard

I repeat, this was NOT a Playstation 3 limitations, belts would not impact memory on even a small scale. (But if does help a bit when they're not there)

[BoomerOU]

Swimming would be nice. Under water combat no thank you. If its not a design decision from day one I feel like it is just going to feel tacked on, not to mention each new area with water would include tacked on water combat quests just to say they have it.

But in general, swimming would be nice, if only to remove some of the invisible walls.

[Naunet]

most likely the latter since they would have to...

Only the very first thing in this massive stream of non-punctuated text is necessary: "make swimming animations". I suppose "ability to move in a 3d space" is appropriate as well, though the controls themselves are very basic and swimming is really not some wild and crazy innovation in MMOs. People know how to do it.

We don't need gear effects on swimming distance, or new enemies, or new attacks and animations, or new FATES, or any adjustments to fishing, or specific gear, or specific quests. We already have swimsuits, but those shouldn't be necessary to swim.

I'm slightly disappointed on a daily basis that I can't jump off the Aftcastle into the water.

Seriously. Or wade into a river. Or go exploring that marsh around the Sanctum of the Twelve. Or swim off the coast of Costa del Sol. Or jump off the Burning Wall. Or any number of other fun things. Fun is too much effort, apparently.

News flash this isn't an open-world game, everything is split into zones and instances much like GW2 and SWTOR, games that aren't on consoles

SWTOR (PC Master Race Only) you also couldn't swim.

You can swim in GW2, though. Your correlation doesn't exactly hold up.

[lololink]

Gaius already went Super Sonic during the Praetorium anyway...

No he just managed to get the power of a gold knight and became the gold knight of the wolf 14th zodiac sign.

[Arkghyom]

Wet fur is so soft!

[NeruMew]

most likely the latter since they would have to make swimming animations then the effects of swimming on gear increase the distance of land uyou can cover new enemies you can attack also what kind of attacks can you do how it would be effected new animations for each attack effects once your out of water making new models to place under water the ability to move in a 3d space with all 3 dimensions instead of left/right and forward/back not to mention the new fates they would have to program the changes to fishing jobs because of the swimming area's how deep different races would have to go before they are classed as swimming swimming specific gear quests for swimming ect XD
theres a lot they would have to do D:

Don't care.... It's all worth it! :O

I can feel the ocean calling me....

Wet fur is so soft!

Meow!