Auto-attack

[Alcide]

The game initiates the basic attacks for you. Regardless how much you try to undervalue the significance of this change, it automates the gameplay. And how much, that's not the issue. The simple fact that it does is the issue.

He's right, for any other MMO I would go against him, but this is not the case:
If you take Aion, WoW or FF11 as exemple the damage dealt by the auto attack is really small, you have to use other skills to be useful to the party at all. In FF14 normal attacks do A LOT of damage, actually you can grind all the way to rank 50 using just normal attacks (if you always play in parties) so in this case an auto attack feature is basically killing the mob for you.

They can address it by drastically lowering the damage dealt by the normal attacks, but then again an auto-attack feature would be useless because you'll have do a lot more of WS even doing the normal attack manually, wich would be used just to gain TP.

And here's the main point: in FF14, unlike 11 were it was pretty slow and automated, gaining TP is a huge part of the gameplay, an auto attack feature would get rid of it.