Gamerescape Interview: Summons, Chocobos, Train Tracks and Rocks

[fusional]

35 more pages of people crying about jump.

this community has its priorities straight.

[Mirage]

Alhanelem aint no dealer.

[Mamakat]

A while back I did a free week trial of WoW just to see what the big deal was, and in the 2 days that I actually played one of the only things I remember was seeing people jump EVERYWHERE and it looked so stupid. I just hope our jump is nothing like that. I also remember back in the beta forums, people complaining about not having jump because at 'HNM camps they wanted something to pass the time'... herpderp

Anyways, I agree with everyone mentioning that they want it to be a tool used to go around the terrain. Maybe how some of the doors in Nanawa you need to open yourself, that could be how you can jump up/down ledges etc. Not sure if anyone already used using the menu as an example, I honestly didn't read all the posts >.>, so just my $0.02

[Dargoth_Draconia]

A while back I did a free week trial of WoW just to see what the big deal was, and in the 2 days that I actually played one of the only things I remember was seeing people jump EVERYWHERE and it looked so stupid. I just hope our jump is nothing like that. I also remember back in the beta forums, people complaining about not having jump because at 'HNM camps they wanted something to pass the time'... herpderp

Anyways, I agree with everyone mentioning that they want it to be a tool used to go around the terrain. Maybe how some of the doors in Nanawa you need to open yourself, that could be how you can jump up/down ledges etc. Not sure if anyone already used using the menu as an example, I honestly didn't read all the posts >.>, so just my $0.02

Most of us who don't mind it the point is why does it bother you what other people do? Turn your camera if you don't want to see it, I don't want to see 100 people lagging up my town sitting AFK with their bazaar up but I have too. That actually peeves me off too especially when most of those people guess what, have all their items listed for 9999999999999.

I just really can't comprehend why it could bother anyone, and why they would want to nerf something before it even comes out because another game has something similar in it. You know one of the main reasons people jump in WoW besides being bored and can't think of nothing better to do than jump around town? Fluidity, the game moves so fluidly and the jump feels so light and good you just can't help yourself by spamming the space bar. Plus something about smashing that space bar is addictive on a primal level, lol.

So because people bunny hop all around on WoW or some other games you think the community that plays this game will do the same thing? I honestly think maybe only a handful of people would jump around just to do it. Also as I have said and others have said perhaps they are willing to make you not be able to jump in town. That way for whatever reason it is that irks you, you wouldn't have to see it 24/7 by those few that do it.

P.S. Alhanelem: If they add something in whatever way you will have to deal with it if you want to play the game. Unless you want to become the next Rokien.

[cait_crescent]

Most of us who don't mind it the point is why does it bother you what other people do? Turn your camera if you don't want to see it, I don't want to see 100 people lagging up my town sitting AFK with their bazaar up but I have too.

You know one of the main reasons people jump in WoW besides being bored and can't think of nothing better to do than jump around town? Fluidity, the game moves so fluidly and the jump feels so light and good you just can't help yourself by spamming the space bar. Plus something about smashing that space bar is addictive on a primal level, lol.

I have played WoW for 5 years, and I HAVE to say that he's right.

I have known a lot of hardcore raiders in my day, people that LIVE in Azeroth.

All of them, at one time or another, has wasted hours trick jumping to pose on streetlamps, archways, statues- JUST to impress lowbies and guildies.

1. Jumping in combat isn't cowardly, it is a skill.
2. Jumping is the quickest way to emote joy in a primal way.
3. The more freedom given to the player, the better.

Limitation where freedom of movement is concerned is a buzzkill for any game, IMO. I'm not trying to say that jumping has a direct correlation to the success of a community, but there IS a connection!


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I'm a noob, but I love this game. I will support it well into 2.0 if Squee delivers the goods!

[Seif]

I'd like to be jump be useful too. Like now there are GAZILLION nooks that I have to run around because I can't jump 10cm that they would require. They're also completely impossible to see where the collision walls happen.

[Mamakat]

It's not like it's going to break the game for me, I'm not going to rage at anyone, and it doesn't ~offend me~ when people do it. If people want to jump because it's more "realistic" to get around terrain, that's totally fine and great. But, how many people do you see hopping around town for no reason at all? 0 because it would look dumb I wish people wouldn't get so offended because someone doesn't like the way spamming jump looks in game. You like it, I think it looks silly, but we'll both live no matter what way the decide to go. I was just putting in my 2cents on a way to use jump through the menu when you reach an obstacle in the way that you do when you reach some doors in Nanawa.

And please don't get me started on the bozos lagging up town with their 999999999 BS that no one cares about.

[Elexia]

I think most of the "hate" comes from the fact pro-jumpers are very quick to want to annoy those who didn't care for the feature or didn't want it. They'll say "now that I get jump I'm going to jump around endlessly around those who hate it".

When someone asked for an animation toggle on jumping, pro-jumpers immediately told them "no!" even though it doesn't affect them lol. So it's not the feature itself people hate, it's a lot of the supporters of it who gets people to hate it.

[Kerwin]

Jumping should never effect combat. It should be used as a way to make exploring terrain easier. Damage on fall should be in moderation. We don't know what 2.0 landscapes will be. Unless SE starts planning on flying mounts, we will have barriers on cliffs and other out of reach areas.

[KatoKinko]

I think if your going to jump in battle, It should only be for looking cool when fighting and dose nothing elss (no evading attacks, no jumping to a platflorm, no extra damage, ect.) to add a style in fighting, but does nothing elss.
[Edit]
Kinda like this, your auto-attacking, you jump but your auto-attack does this cool upper slash animation.
Fare for both parties I think, both who do and dont want jumping in combat.
Also I highly support jumping being used to exploring. I dont see the harm in it. (They did say they will make the maps so you cant fall and die for it would be too unrealistic for the new graphics.)