Why is jumping always associated with WoW?

[Preypacer]

What I want to know is why some people find jumping so offensive lol. Its like "Did... Did that guy just jump? Did that guy just...jump? WHAT THE $%&*!!!! %&*-!!!!!!!! %&*%&*&$&!!!!!!!! *censor censor* */blist add jumping offendor*" lol I just picture these people screaming at their screens... xD!!!!

I don't think anyone is "offended" by jumping by itself.

People have already explained specifically in this thread what type of jumping becomes annoying, as is common in WoW, is when there are people who are spamming their jump buttons like rabbits on speed simply because they can't sit still for a second or are trying to get attention.

It's annoying when you're standing still trying to talk to someone, or going through inventory, and someone is jumping around you in circles non-stop purely to get your attention.

It's annoying when you're in the middle of a tough quest or dungeon where aggro could mean death and some guy with a twitchy jump finger is hopping all over the damn place.

And then of course, there's when you get a bunch of chronic hoppers in one place, they see one person do it, so they join in... next thing you know it's Bouncy Castle time...

The remark at about 1:50 in this video kinda sums it up well... and humorously.

I have no issue with a jump key being in the game. I don't think one is necessary, but I'm not opposed or "offended" to it being there. It's more what will happen when hyper-active people who can't sit still get access to it that I'm concerned about.

I seriously hope SE puts limitations in place that prevents people from spamming it.

[Wolfie]

Why forum goers? Why?

Did blizzard invent jump with the creation of WoW?

I don't understand .

Because anything that WOW has is bad, and it's the first MMO to invent bad things.

World of Warcraft has a really stupid jump animation, and it seems like the majority of the population there can't help but spam it nonstop.

I thought emote, call, spell, and song spamming to be much, much more annoying in FFXI. People will always figure something out to do when they're bored.

Still don't understand why jump spamming is so bad, but to each his own.

[Reika]

I kinda hated call too. They were useful to wake someone up who fell asleep because the extremely slow combat system (me), but not for too much else. I know some people who want those calls in FFXIV. They better not be the ones complaining about jump being anoying tho >.>

[Wolfie]

At least jumping doesn't fill up my combat log or have annoying sounds.

[Nikita]

World of Warcraft and the Final Fantasy we play appeal to very different audiences (imo). Do people really feel that if they add jump, those types of players will go "finally!!!" and just start flocking over in hordes...?

[Preypacer]

World of Warcraft and the Final Fantasy we play appeal to very different audiences (imo). Do people really feel that if they add jump, those types of players will go "finally!!!" and just start flocking over in hordes...?

Interesting point... and I really hope you're right lol.

[Wolfie]

World of Warcraft and the Final Fantasy we play appeal to very different audiences (imo). Do people really feel that if they add jump, those types of players will go "finally!!!" and just start flocking over in hordes...?

By itself no. But jumping, along with a lot of other minor things that are missing from this game server to make gameplay fun and modern.

[Nikita]

By itself no. But jumping, along with a lot of other minor things that are missing from this game server to make gameplay fun and modern.

I personally believe the only MMO that will flock all of those types of players away is a new MMO by Blizzard. I played WoW, for a while, I grew bored at the end of Sunwell when they homoginized all of the classes. I've tried pulling a few people away, for a few different MMOs, 9 times out of 10 it doesn't work. I don't see FFXIV ever becoming a game that could.

[Wolfie]

I personally believe the only MMO that will flock all of those types of players away is a new MMO by Blizzard. I played WoW, for a while, I grew bored at the end of Sunwell when they homoginized all of the classes. I've tried pulling a few people away, for a few different MMOs, 9 times out of 10 it doesn't work. I don't see FFXIV ever becoming a game that could.

Of course not. But I can guarantee you that the vast majority of the people who had an interest in this game, or bought it and left, put it down because the gameplay was a step back from everything else that's out right now, FFXI included.

To use your logic, people shouldn't be trying to make this into FFXI-2, because the people who like FFXI already play it and aren't going to dump it for this game. FFXIV needs to be fun and modern in its own right.

[Razzle]

It's annoying when you're standing still trying to talk to someone, or going through inventory, and someone is jumping around you in circles non-stop purely to get your attention.

It's annoying when you're in the middle of a tough quest or dungeon where aggro could mean death and some guy with a twitchy jump finger is hopping all over the damn place.

And then of course, there's when you get a bunch of chronic hoppers in one place, they see one person do it, so they join in... next thing you know it's Bouncy Castle time...

Can you please explain how is it so annoying to you?

How does it affect you or other players in any way if someone is spamming the jump button?

It's annoying when you're standing still trying to talk to someone, or going through inventory, and someone is running around you in circles non-stop purely to get your attention.

It's annoying when you're in the middle of a tough quest or dungeon where aggro could mean death and some guy with a twitchy finger is running all over the damn place.

And then of course, there's when you get a bunch of chronic runners in one place, they see one person do it, so they join in... next thing you know it's Running Castle time...

See what I did there? Why not remove Running from the game while we're at it?

If such thing annoy you maybe its a problem in your end... Other players jumping does not affect you or anyone else. If you have such a big problem seeing it in your screen tilt your camera away or something.