Why is jumping always associated with WoW?

[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)

[Petori]

I jumped since 1985.

[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

[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.

[Phenidate]

There's the obviously vocal opposition to jumping providing WOW as their banner in their crusade against it. Obviously since Blizzard messed up how they did jumping, NO ONE can do it better. EVER.

There is the more reasonable bunch who don't see a reason for it because its a Final Fantasy. The inconvenience of constantly detouring around ankle and knee high obstacles appeals to them. It's at least a more reasonable a stance than the people who shout against it because of what another game did with it.

And then there are the outliers who don't like it just because for one reason or another.

The best suggestion I've seen for adding jumping by others:
A good animation.
Reasonable jump height. (no Mario jumps)
Delay between jumps (can't mash or bunny hop)

That said. Used to be Jump was an attack!

[Ilean]

I thought jump looked absolutely ridiculous in WoW as did the rest of the artwork.

Hater gonna hate.

[Dreamer]

I was fine with *bounce bounce bounce* both the artwork and animations *bounce bounce bounce* in WoW - they fit the games *bounce bounce bounce* they were based off of. It *bounce bounce bounce*was just the *bounce bounce bounce* in all the main *bounce bounce bounce* cities and pvp that *bounce bounce bounce* annoyed me.

[Nikita]

I was fine with *bounce bounce bounce* both the artwork and animations *bounce bounce bounce* in WoW - they fit the games *bounce bounce bounce* they were based off of. It *bounce bounce bounce*was just the *bounce bounce bounce* in all the main *bounce bounce bounce* cities and pvp that *bounce bounce bounce* annoyed me.

Anyone with half a brain can take something, anything simple and make it annoying. You and what you just did are the perfect example of it, what you just did is a fine example that it isn't jump that is at fault, it is the person using it. In that case, they would most likely just find another way to annoy you, like flood your chat box or run in circles or something. lol.

Seriously, instead of trying to force other people to play how you think they should, why don't you spend your time and energy asking for a mega black-list that completely hides their characters from your virgin eyes, since a mere 50 people on the forums begging SE to retract the jumping implementation is considerably small next to the number of players they would like to have playing their game, that don't want to be told how to play a game they will eventually be paying a monthly fee for.