Jumping confirmed

[Rowyne]

Here are some people that believe jumping is an expected MMO feature (one of them being Yoshi-P):

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Everything in XIV moves along at a snail's pace. Whether you're running around or fighting, the playstyle is just tired. The interface is subpar, laggy, and unintuitive. Traversing terrain hits a snag when you come to hills and cliffs; typically you can't climb over or fall down steep inclines. It doesn't help that there isn't an option to just outright jump, and it's all too easy to get caught up on invisible objects or impeded by obstacles you'd think you could easily climb over. -- Source

Final Fantasy XIV will also get a jump command sometime in the future. No, not an attack evading Dragoon style jump, a regular jump.

"All I can say is that we are not emphasizing jumping with the jump key as a means to cover vast distances on the map or an element that must be used during battle strategies… Maybe it’s easiest to say it will just be like the jump you generally see in MMO’s," Yoshida said. -- Source

RPGSite: Last question… what core mechanics—if any—are being drawn from western MMO developers? Such as the option to do things like swimming and jumping?

Yoshida: I’m a very hardcore gamer, and one of the first things when I got onto FFXIV was that I wanted to add a jump feature. When I threw that out to the community, what surprised me was that a lot of players were against that idea. Their complaint was that you shouldn’t be able to jump in a FINAL FANTASY game! Just because it’s in all the other MMOs, does it fit with the image of FINAL FANTASY? For example, people didn’t want to see Lalafells jumping all around. Personally, I don’t like the fact that my character is bound to the ground, so I definitely want to add a jump feature.

RPGSite: That’s interesting because they added a jump option to XIII-2, and I haven’t seen much negative reaction to that.

Yoshida: Everyone probably wouldn’t mind if their character could jump, but maybe there’s a lot of people who just don’t want to see everyone else jumping! A lot of the Japanese players of XIV that only know about that game as well as FFXI, so they’re used to having a character that can’t jump. They don’t realize that you can jump in every other MMO in the world, so they have that aversion to it. -- Source