Moving will be made to interrupt spellcasting at a point in time...

[Eva]

I full heartedly agree with the original poster.

The biggest problem I forsee with this is as a healer. While in battle, melee is constantly running around all over the place pulling mobs and such. So, now, as I understand it, if I start casting on a melee character and he runs out of my range the spell with fail. At least, before, if a melee character was running away from me, I could (despite the restriction from animation lock) run along with the melee character so my spell would land on him. Now you're saying I am helpless if I need to cure a character and he runs out of range. And so.. I have to explain to that character when he dies that "well, you should have stayed still while I was casting." This is not awesome. What if I accidentally bump my movement control on a crucial Cure, cancelling the spell, killing the tank and consequently the whole party. Healers have a hard enough time as it is, I cannot understand why you are making it more difficult. What is the big deal with letting players move while casting?

To the developers of Final Fantasy XIV at Square Enix:

WHAT ARE YOU GUYS THINKING?!?! How is this making the game better?!

Sorry, guys, I have been very patient and tolerant up to this point but this has gone too far.

YOU ARE RUINING ALL THE GOOD PARTS OF THIS GAME.

It was a relief to be able to move while casting. That was one of the great details of this game. A step forward from the restrictive, "stuffy" game mechanics from Final Fantasy XI.

This game had so much freedom. This is what made this game great!

You could move while casting. You could create your own character build by customizing which abilities your character used from the selection of abilities you had earned. You could play at your own pace and solo when the server was quiet.

Now you cannot move while casting?! You can only have Protect or Shell on at one time?! Cannot create a unique character to my prefered playstyle?! Can only make worthwhile xp gains with a party of 8 (up 2 player from the 6 that FFXI had making it more difficult to find a party?).

WHY???????

If a developer were to chime in here and give an explanation as to why this decision was made, it would go a huge way to putting distressed players at ease and re-enforce customer loyalty. A response here is the reason why players requested forums in the first place. For developers to answer IMPORTANT questions that players have. It just seems like the developers who post on the forums are avoiding responding to the questions that really matter to players. Please don't take offence or take this personally, I am just offering constructive critisism. Forgive me for being emotional but this game is something I am very passionate about.