Why is jumping always associated with WoW?

[ShinChuck]

It makes no sense why people complain about jumping. Even if someone does it 20000 times a session does it really matter? Mind your own business and let people do what they want. Like seriously it doesn't affect you in anyway.

Thank you. This exactly.

You can apply the same logic to so many things (someone mentioned running earlier, another astute observation).

Maybe your stupid Onion Helm pisses me of. I don't care if it's classic, it looks dumb, and it annoys me. Maybe it pisses me off that a lot of people have them (and they were all over at launch). Does that mean it's worth chucking from the game? No, it darn well means I need to grow up and get over myself.

And in the case of things like jump, there's practical value there, not just aesthetics, making it even more absurd - if anything, you should be arguing against Onion Helms and stupid outfits before even thinking about going after a practical gameplay element.

[Raistlin]

I'm actually all for there being actual differences between the different races. Perhaps if there were some actual benefits and drawbacks to the choices, we wouldn't have the legion of catgirls running around.

If there are so many catgirls is just coz that race is cool and people like seeing them. if u make hyur to jump highter than lalafell, they can surpass obstacles that others cant, and that is totally unacceptable. they will never benefit a race against other one, so for that reason, forget to see a cool and perfect jump for everybody. someone will jump too low or someone will jump too high, but all races will have the same posibilities.

And that will be totally uncool:

- A Hyur jumping enough high to surpass an obstacle, but the game will not alow him coz visual jump dont fit real jump height
- A Hyur jumping so low that seems.. stupid coz i can jump highter and i am not a Hero.
- A lalafell jumping low but your character allow to surpass a obstacle and your character "cross" through it.
- A lalafell jumping so high that it would seem unrealistic or uncool.

is a hard decision, and not everyone will be happy.

[zaviermhigo]

I think because of the multitude of bunny hop WoW parodies which float around on youtube. The free WoW Jump spammer marketing makes it seem like all WoW people jump spam. Personally I found F2P players to be jump spammers since they're usually younger. All Blizzard did with WoW was create the "MMO Masses"

[Arcell]

The only kind of limitation I ask for is no jumping in battle. Reason I mention this is because in Aion Rangers would exploit jump to cancel combat animations and that became the only accepted way to play the class. Single handedly made me not want to play the class.

[Griss]

Don't you know? W.o.W was apparently the first mmo, nay first video game ever.

[Dreamer]

If there are so many catgirls is just coz that race is cool and people like seeing them. if u make hyur to jump highter than lalafell, they can surpass obstacles that others cant, and that is totally unacceptable. they will never benefit a race against other one, so for that reason, forget to see a cool and perfect jump for everybody. someone will jump too low or someone will jump too high, but all races will have the same posibilities.

And that will be totally uncool:

- A Hyur jumping enough high to surpass an obstacle, but the game will not alow him coz visual jump dont fit real jump height
- A Hyur jumping so low that seems.. stupid coz i can jump highter and i am not a Hero.
- A lalafell jumping low but your character allow to surpass a obstacle and your character "cross" through it.
- A lalafell jumping so high that it would seem unrealistic or uncool.

is a hard decision, and not everyone will be happy.

Well, if you've completed some of the Limsa quests, you know that Lalafell have the best 'distance' of all the races already. ^-~

I personally wouldn't mind having FFVII style-jumping.

[Reika]

The only kind of limitation I ask for is no jumping in battle. Reason I mention this is because in Aion Rangers would exploit jump to cancel combat animations and that became the only accepted way to play the class. Single handedly made me not want to play the class.

Well thats aion. If they decided not to fix that, then..... thats a korean MMO for you, expect the same from TERA .

Jumping could have some fun implementations in combat, without the suspicion of exploits.

[Cendres]

You know, I rather like the jump animations in WoW. But then, I actually find WoW's art style to be endearing; like a 3D stylized oil painting. And after spending three years playing FFXI, where a pebble can cause you a 45 minute detour, jumping was the single greatest thing that I'd ever been introduced to in the MMO genre.

lolol... My sides.. ^_^;; I always hated that, FFXI was and is wonderful but it does have it's extra annoying quirks that made me quit and come back more times then I care to count.

[zaviermhigo]

But in XIV a pebble won't stop you for 45 mins, they lessened collision detection. Show me a youtube video of you hiking where you jump up cliffs and over rocks all the time. You don't. You scale up cliffs similar to the way we do now, and you walk around big rocks. Just saying people say jump adds more realism, or jump will make this easier, and either way it won't. Yoshi-P already said jump won't help us get anywhere faster, it seems more like how anima was just a ploy so people could "unstick" themselves when they got beta jankified, jump with just be another one of those I'm janked somewhere fixes on the players end.

[Cendres]

No In FFXIV you just can't hop down a simple ledge. Same difference.