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

[AlexiaKidd]

Gifthorse I think your forgetting that SE's main target market is going to be the PS3 players and last time I checked there wasn't much competition in that space for console MMO's. Yeah it would be great if they could capture the PC players to but at this point I think they have accepted they have lost most of them. There best chance is the consoles and that is why they are going to put everything they can into the PS3 release.

This brings up another reason why I want auto attack. Playing on a controller and having to scoot back to 1 for basic attack is something I can live without and I am sure SE are trying to streamline the controls for the PS3 players so auto attack would help with that.

Anyway I wish you luck with GW2 and Tera, I'll just continue to plod along in FFXIV with it's outdated battle system, have fun.

[darkstarpoet1]

i do not want auto attack. if it would be able to be toggled i would not mind it for people that wish to make use of it, but in my case i do not use the base attack hardly at all and as a pug i have multiple different basic attacks i use.

[gifthorse]

Gifthorse I think your forgetting that SE's main target market is going to be the PS3 players and last time I checked there wasn't much competition in that space for console MMO's. Yeah it would be great if they could capture the PC players to but at this point I think they have accepted they have lost most of them. There best chance is the consoles and that is why they are going to put everything they can into the PS3 release.

This brings up another reason why I want auto attack. Playing on a controller and having to scoot back to 1 for basic attack is something I can live without and I am sure SE are trying to streamline the controls for the PS3 players so auto attack would help with that.

Anyway I wish you luck with GW2 and Tera, I'll just continue to plod along in FFXIV with it's outdated battle system, have fun.

Im only thinking of the game's welfare.

But if you are prepared to sacrifice FFXIV's longevity just because you want to chat up some miqotes during combat, by all means, go ahead. But I hope you know even PS3 wont be this game's salvation what with Blade & Soul and DCUO already existing or soon-to-be contenders.

And I find it a pretty specious claim to say that the potential market on the PS3 is even enough to, not only rejuvinate FFXIV, but sustain it also.

I wish you luck with FFXIV too, you sure are going to need it.

[gifthorse]

i think gifthorse is a pretty cool guy, eh creates drama and doesn’t afraid of anything.

you doesnt afriad of anything most

[gifthorse]

But why do you people even play FFXIV anyway? You obviously dont like what it stands for.

Some of us actually wanted to play ffxiv because we bought into the concept advertised by tanaka, not because of some crazy misconceptions we brought with us from FFXI or WoW. Seriously.

It's funny I am the one being told to go play GW2 or TERA when it's you and every other FFXI/WoW fanatic who is at odds with the game's underlying concepts.

[gifthorse]

Thanks for wrecking the game's potential for the rest of us, guys!

[Verecund]

Hey guys let's get on Ventril- oops game crashed due to alt-tab.


^ Seems like a bigger problem than typing while trying to play imo.

[solracht]

Thanks for wrecking the game's potential for the rest of us, guys!

This game lost its chance to move the genre forward the second it was released as it was. dealwithit.jpg

I have no doubt it'll be fun at some point (or I wouldn't be here right now), but you need to stop acting like it was ruined between release and now. It happened way before then.

[wind]

SE isn't just listening to US, hence why there is EU, JP, FR and if the upcoming changes bring about good reviews China. So saying 'thanks for wrecking the game's potential for the rest of us, guys!" we are only 1/4 of the input towards player wanted changes that the DEV team gets. That is only 25% and I highly doubt that if ONLY 20%(lets say 5% were against it I'm being generous with the 'for') showed up on there end as wanting AA. They wouldn't have added it.

If you don't have any faith in the current DEV team and the decisions they ultimately make.. why still be around inputting your beliefs. Just seems like you're only wasting your own time(not directed at you solely gifthorse, just in general people who feel that way).

I understand the sake of argument just to argue and its easy to fall back on "well I really do want the game to be better". But the way most go about it honestly will never appear that way to the people who matter(dev/yoshi). It'll just come off as being ungrateful and rude.. unsure if you know there is pretty big cultural differences in the way we view 'confrontation' between US / JP.

[gifthorse]

This game lost its chance to move the genre forward the second it was released as it was. dealwithit.jpg

I have no doubt it'll be fun at some point (or I wouldn't be here right now), but you need to stop acting like it was ruined between release and now. It happened way before then.

I never said the game was perfect at some point. What I said was that its potential was and is being ruined. You may recall.