I want to swim

[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)

[Vydos]

Originally, I couldn't cared less about swimming in FFXIV. That was until I saw amazing beach and seawater in Costa Del Sol and Limsa housing. Every time I see the water, I just want my character to swim in it.

[Kaelah]

It would be nice, but it is hard to make it look good. (The animation etc.) Plus it always annoyed me in games like WoW (yeah I made a WoW comparison, kill me now!!) when you see people swimming effortlessly in full heavy plate. It's silly. :3

Yes I know it's a game and not real, but there are limits surely lol.

[Munba]

Yoshida said they'll introduce swimming and content about it in the future for sure and i hope this will happen in the first expansion.

[Anapingofness]

I really hope they add swimming soon.

Maybe they'll introduce it as a way of doing quests for the Sahagin or somesuch?
>_> I dunno, I just wanna be able to swim... XD

[Limecat]

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

[Mezolitik]

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

Ha, there'd be a loading screen between Upper and Lower Limsa.

I really really hope they add swimming. On a sunny day, the sea up by Cape Westwind looks endless.

[KagatoAC]

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

This, the other day I was doing a BSM quest sent me to this ship in Limsa. I ran all the way out on the forward spar and just sat there wishing I could jump off and swim back

[Toranja]

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

I've seen several new Jesus on Leviathan's Limsa. They fall through the cracks of time and space and begin [strike]walking[/strike] standing on water. I throw rocks at them and the occasional lala.

[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