Why is the new dragoon animation so terrible?

[Almalexia]

Yet for how busy they seem to be they still take some weird and random suggestions seriously. And that sounds like a lot more work than a proper /visor animation.

We relayed your request to the development team.

is not the same as

We are taking your weird and random suggestion very seriously and will fit it into our development schedule.

Take into account they are creating new minions all the time anyway, and a community request makes guiding their next project easier.

[ignacioricci]

Way to make assumptions. I'm guessing you've never animated

you don't even realize what you're saying supports my point that they are at their limit with the developers they have and they will need to hire more if they want to meet the standards we've come to expect from FF. handling a ton of issues is one thing for a indie developer, another for AAA title.

It doesn't prove your point. If they get 10 more developers, or 20 or 30. The will still prioritize a great amount of other more importante issues. This completely nice to have feature will end up in the backlog for months.

[Ashkendor]

I guess :3 Seems abit silly though. "Let's put the servers in a terrible location and potentially lose a ton of players from bad latency! Then when we can milk as much money from players as we can, spend millions on moving the servers to where they should be :3 like whaattt?

It should go without saying that one data center is cheaper to build than two data centers. 1.0 was an unmitigated financial disaster, so it's not as if they had tons of money laying around to just throw at building a second data center for a game that was being relaunched on a prayer and a few rolls of duct tape. They had no idea if the game was going to fly or die at that point, so why invest more than they have to? The majority of players seem to play from the NA region, so why would they put the servers in Europe? It makes a lot more sense to handle it the way they're doing. Now that the game is on solid footing, they can move ahead with it. I don't get why people can't just be happy that it's happening instead of bitching that it didn't happen sooner.

@OP - the helmet kinda looks glitched to me, honestly.

[Mysteltain]

Honestly, it's one of those "Eh, whatever" issues to me. As others have said, you'll usually turn it on or off, and only you will notice. Plus, how is it simply appearing/disappearing any different from the fact that the visors used to go up or down without any cause? Or that the DRG Soldiery set had its visor disappear for no reason while the tank's Ironworks Visor would slide up and down?

[Apoptic]

I didn't expect much from this except a thread filled with square toady's telling off someone with a complaint. I was not disappointed. I have never in my life seen a group of people more dedicated to justifying questionable design decisions and head scratching execution than in this game. Do you not like receiving a quality product? Yet around here there are always a ton of folks ready to shout down anyone who wants to register some dissatisfaction, or dismiss out of hand any idea that might improve the game for everyone.

That /visor "animation" does look really awful.

[Roda]

Feel free to demand quality and a /visor animation. Some of us would just rather have other things. Like new minions or sitting animations or art books so just adding my 2cents here to make it count.

You realize that it would take longer for the 3d modeling/animating program to load up on your computer than it would be to animate the mask like all the other /visors, right?

[BigBossCL]

Yeah, I love SE to death, but it was major disappointing that the visor isn't animated, especially since the AF1 set has an animated /visor.

Maybe we're making mountains out of molehills here and the animation is bugged, or they didn't realize it was missing in the live version. I'm pretty sure its a trivial fix though.

[Griller]

Yeah, I love SE to death, but it was major disappointing that the visor isn't animated, especially since the AF1 set has an animated /visor.

Maybe we're making mountains out of molehills here and the animation is bugged, or they didn't realize it was missing in the live version. I'm pretty sure its a trivial fix though.

I hope so. If its simply a bug then it should be easy enough to fix

[Griller]

I thought you wanted a better animation than that. I'm a 3D animator so yeah. Just moving the visor piece into place is literally done automatically by the program with two keyframes. Implementing it could take a moment though.

I'm not against this request. It's pretty minor to me but I said it would be cool. I literally had a problem with some posters calling the devs lazy for leaving a thing like this out.

I don't think they are lazy I think they are just undermanned for all the work they have. It's like they are 4 manning T13. I hope SE considers allocating more staff towards FFXIV since it is a hit now.

[KaedrianLiang]

....here i thought someone was making a complaint about a more noticeable everyday animation related to drg combat...