Quote Originally Posted by Dargoth_Draconia View Post
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.