Will Mounts be able to jump?

[Alhanelem]

-People will jump around, it will bug the frick out of me and most people I know.

Blacklist and ignore them, and it will stop. A couple people being retards does not justify not having a feature. I've said this dozens of times.

-This isn't a platformer, its an mmorpg, ya know, a simulator, kinda like for real lifeish

No one said this is a platformer, but it's most certainly NOT a "simulator", it's a fantasy land. And a game doesn't need to be a platformer for jumping to have relevance. Look at any 3D zelda game. You can jump in those and they aren't "platformer" games. (Zelda doesn't just have auto jumping, in most of the games you can jump backwards while the camera is locked by pushing a button, and there are places out of combat where you're expected to know to be able to do this). The Elder Scrolls games have jumping and those are some of the most popular RPGs in the US. They have giant, near-MMO sized worlds too.

-Again, the world we live on RIGHT NOW, ya know earth, is suuuuper beautiful, you never have to jump.

How beautiful the world is is irrelevant to the topic of jumping. Being able to jump does not make the world less beautiful on the whole. And there almost certainly be times in your real life when the skill of being able to jump will come in handy. You cannot tell me you've never once jumped in your life.

-No, no you can't, not in an "turn" base mmo, in an action mmo, yes maybe, but this is not an action mmo.

I don't know which game you're playing, but FFXIV is not turn based. It is action based.

The ability to change your direction from front/back to left and right is already 3-dimensional movement, you don't need to jump in order to have 3D movement, utilizing a joystick or mouse for movement alone is 3-dimensional movement.

That's two-dimensional movement, not three. Since you're wholly glued to the ground you stand on (as you can't fall down any holes or any place where you arent at least sort of touching ground) three-dimensional movement is effectually non-existent. Elevators don't even count because those only operate in cutscenes.

Yeah let's just shit on half the playerbase with bad connections and continue to add positional and reaction based content that kills them all the time.

Movement, including jumping, is generally handled client-side. Thus pressing jump before something appears that you would need to jump over means you would avoid it. Movement is about the only thing that the server trusts the player with, because if the server had to verify movement, your movement input would lag horribly and your character would be very unresponsive when you pushed movement keys.

As far as the CURRENT state of the game, perhaps the biggest use for jumping would be at the ifrit battle. He throws down one of his lava splats, but you're not going to be able to run out before you get hit by it. Oh wait, you have jumping ability! A well timed jump just before it hits and you can escape the damage zone!