Please Use the Correct Form of Jump Square Enix!!!

[Konachibi]

Interesting! I only fooled around a bit with the free trial of AoC, never payed attention to this. Could you still jump on things at least?
The cliff thing is understandable though, being able to jump doesn't neccessarily mean you no longer have invisible barriers. There are still areas where it makes sense to prevent players from entering or leaving.

On AoC you could jump over things but it was really glitchy, it often caused characters to pass through the object or bounce around on it. On SWG jump had no practical function, you couldn't jump over or on anything, if you tried to jump over something, even if it was only one foot tall, you'd still hit it like you were running.

In FFXIV there's not really anywhere we're particularly restricted from going, jump would simply serve as a quicker way to get down a cliff instead of having to run all the way around it to get to the lower ground.

I think it's all a case of sensibility. At the moment our characters 'aren't daft enough' to try and run off a vertical cliff so we stop at the top of it and have find an area to run down. Those of us that have 'lemming tendencies' (like me ) would rather take the risk of leaping off high places than waste ages finding somewhere to run down.