Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
Does this instant animation stop really bother people that much? Super detailed movement animations are one of the things that makes this feel so much slower than other mmorpgs. In FFXI it's possible to instantly stop and about-face and nobody complains about this...
It isnt purely just about the animations. Thats the surface.

The true annoyance is how long of a delay there is between the client and server. That sort of degradation of performance effects every aspect of gameplay, not just clientside animations.

-target box calculation and rendering times
-damage calculation and rendering times
Etc...