Why do you want auto-attack? (discussion)[dev1022]

[Kaedan]

Actually, I said it encourages bad behavior and laziness. Can you prove me wrong?

[Evovenom]

To piss all the boys and the girls off wwww

[Rau]

easier to chat. easier to afk while grinding

[Kaedan]

P.S. Chatting away incessantly under the pretense of AA, when you should be doing your job, is just that.

[User201106281130]

i like this battle system and personally i dont think auto attack is needed. i only use "1" sometimes to set up skills.
what i wanna see is an attritubute to increase stamina speed, add agility as an attribute this may promote other builds fast hitters ot fast casters.

[Renshi]

Heya!

Anyway, as I have read, they are going to implement this in order that you won't be able to finish a fight only with auto-attack, so...

I don't know a good reason to have auto-attack, as what I do most is using skills.
It's my personal thought anyway, people are different from each other =D

See ya!

[AlexiaKidd]

I want auto attack as personally I didn't have a problem with the battle system in FFXI. I was always kept very busy in-spite of it's auto attack. However the one great thing it will allow is time to socialise with my party, something which I think is really lacking in FFXIV. I can go out in a party atm and we will constantly either fighting or running to the next fight. With the current system hardly anyone will say a thing for hours and thats just sad. If you stop to reply you aren't contributing to the party and if you try to send a message while running to the next mob you will probably get stuck on some awkward terrain. I hate that I can't reply to a message without watching my DPS drop to 0.

There will always be boring grind battles and there will always be bad players who just spam 1 or just let auto attack do it's thing, so it really doesn't make a single bit of difference in that respect.

I think some people are making mountains out of molehills with this whole auto attack announcement, anyone reading this thread would think you could just login, hit go and let the game play itself if they weren't clued up on how it actually works.

Let the devs do their thing, they are completely changing huge chucks of the gameplay by the sounds of it and that is going to take time and money. They would only be willing to spend that time and money if they really believed this would be better for what they have planned.

So chillax and wait and see the finished product before jumping to conclusions.

[gifthorse]

Meanwhile, Alexia, while you are stuck in your FFXI nostalgia mode, Guild Wars 2 and TERA gain 99% of the MMO market share because FFXIV decided that it would like to take its battle system back a step rather than keep pushing forward with it.

Lol.

Socialising during combat. That's hilarious.

[AlexiaKidd]

Meanwhile, Alexia, while you are stuck in your FFXI nostalgia mode, Guild Wars 2 and TERA gain 99% of the MMO market share because FFXIV decided that it would like to take its battle system back a step rather than keep pushing forward with it.

Lol.

Socialising during combat. That's hilarious.

Yeah because FFXIV has such a huge market share now, hell it doesn't even have as much as FFXI (which has auto attack) so what is your point?

Obviously the dev's think auto attack is necessary for the upcoming content changes and last time I checked Dev's > Gifthorse.

*yawn* next.....

[gifthorse]

Yeah because FFXIV has such a huge market share now, hell it doesn't even have as much as FFXI (which has auto attack) so what is your point?

Obviously the dev's think auto attack is necessary for the upcoming content changes and last time I checked Dev's > Gifthorse.

*yawn* next.....

All the content the developers have planned for us is purely in response to the player polls and individual player's comments/demands. SE has reached the point where they are appealing and conceding to every self-proclaimed expert rather than seeking to improve their own vision for the game. A cursory glance at the changes released so far or slated for release in the future (i.e., aggro indicator, AH, auto-attack combat) is enough to prove that they will compromise on artistic integrity and palatability just for the sake of pleasing their current players. Sadly, most of the people who still play are FFXI fanatics or WoW players, so much so that the polls are slanted in their favour, as opposed to being slanted in favour of an overall better game.

If they think a combat system centred on auto-attack is going to be a drawcard against the upcoming MMOs like Guild Wars 2 and TERA, then FFXIV has a surprise coming. Similarly, if they merely think that changing FFXIV into FFXI-2 is going to save them, then again, all they are doing is shuffling current subscribers between games, and in the end aren't gaining any revenue.

This is an artistic issue as much as a practical one. Auto-attack is boring and many players who aren't FFXI losers would agree, hence why FFXIV will fail if it seeks only to appeal to such players and not the majority.

But whatever. Enjoy your slowly degenerating game while you still can.