Why is jumping always associated with WoW?

[nibelunc]

FFXIV "IS" more action oriented. The flow of combat the mechanics of being able to actually dodge several enemies special attacks by moving behind them or away from them make it more action oriented. The fighting in the game even in its current state where you have to press to attack almost gives the feeling of an action RPG. Even when they bring auto attack in it will follow more closely to the WoW style of fighting. Auto attacks are separate you have cool downs and mana/tp costs for using abilities in which you can stream together into a string of attacks.

I am not calling this an action game but I am saying it is more action oriented than its sister MMO FFXI and in general when compared to some other MMOs. You never stop hitting buttons when attacking or when you are in battle unless you are letting your agro drop or getting MP or something.

Ok maybe you are right.. The best thing I heard before the game released was that the battle system is not with "auto-attack" and now we have auto-attack and are going to get diff mounts (we don't know yet what especially is meant by this) and jump. As someone else said: FF has a different audience then WoW (or some other MMOs).

Ok the battle system was not good but they had no ideas to create something new.

[Shipp]

Yoshi is a WoW fan and wants to turn FFXIV into a succesfull MMORPG. So he copies what he needs.
Maybe he doesn't know that this is a mistake. WoW players will like the jump function - but they leave in no time.

Rift would like a word with you.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

I always tell people to let them implement they stuff they plan to implement and then give feedback on it and not to shoot an idea down until they either have giving the full details on it or have implemented it first. It is fine to give an opinion on something but people should be fighting against the change so vehemently like against jump it isn't going the break the game. Personally I want to the the game thrive and if they have to change stuff and add new features and a ton of content to get old players to give it another chance and for new players to be interested in it, it will all be worth it in the end.

I also like the idea of no auto attack at first but I changed my mind after not having one because all of the button spamming. The battle system itself isn't terrible but it is just lacking like most other things in the game in its current state. Also as they have said FF generally has a difference fan base than most of those other MMORPG's out there and that is true so they will take things differently and general won't abuse a feature in the game in a way that goes against the purpose of it.

[Baelari]

I dunno... I've always associated jumping with Quake, and had assumed the bunny hoppers in MMOs were kids who usually played FPS games.

[Cendres]

I jumped a lot in WoW actually because I thought my blood elf swirly motion was pretty cool. But I'm easily amused I guess... :P

[Dargoth_Draconia]

So because a completely different games jump animation looked not to your liking you are being completely unreasonable and willing to except that a game that looks 100 times better couldn't pull off a better jump animation? Also SE has never said what jumps purpose is going to serve so you cannot just say it is only going to be in the game to look cool. Also having the option to jump instead of being planted to the ground like a plant is worthy in itself to be in the game and the fact it isn't in the game right now makes the game feel old and dated. Of course we have different opinions on this and doesn't matter what I say you are going to believe what you want to believe.

[Molly_Millions]

Lets just hope it serves some purpose and I'm proven wrong. Otherwise it's a useless and annoying feature that I hope to god I can turn off. I'm not the only one that feels that way about it, but whatever...

[Raze]

Hey have there been any threads about jumping yet?

(edited to note I'm being sarcastic since some missed it)

[CrystalWeapon]

Hey have there been any threads about jumping yet?

Bayohne just translated some info from yoshi confirming that jumping will let you scale the terrain. Also touched on the fact that they will be adding swimming in the game's future.

Clicky

[Petori]

I jumped since 1985.