What do you think of jobs having different stances than classes?

[Radnar]

Yeah, FFXIV sure is ugly...?

Well... I mean... Yeah, it kind of is. Having an engine that is capable of rendering high poly-counts doesn't mean anything if you don't do anything interesting with said polycounts.

Asking for unique animations for the races is not as unreasonable as you're making it out to be. Every single MMO I've played (starting with FFXI) has been able to pull it off with flying colors, so why should we give SE a free pass now for FFXIV? On paper unique animations might not sound "necessary," but the fact that my character looks almost indistinguishably the same animation-wise from a hyur or elzen when wielding a sword and shield adds dramatically to FFXIV's feel of blandness and homogeneity that people so often complain about. If SE wants to address this feel then they need to address the animations with something other than more emotes. I may not have liked the Mithran sword&board animations in FFXI very much, but I would much rather have them back in FFXIV just so my character would feel and look more different from the other races.

[IveraIvalice]

Well... I mean... Yeah, it kind of is. Having an engine that is capable of rendering high poly-counts doesn't mean anything if you don't do anything interesting with said polycounts.

lol this game is much better with its graphics then most mmos i've seen, not to mention their animations are very realistic, sure it would be better with more variation but that doesnt make a game ugly.
really? is that how it is? screw the high detail in the characters and the enemies, screw the environments and time they put into the graphics, if theres no race specific casting then the whole game is ugly

i would agree with you that it would be cool to have that variation and it could only help.
but that little thing is not a pretty and ugly decider for me, come on now

[Kiote]

Asking for unique animations for the races is not as unreasonable as you're making it out to be.

Yes it is..

Each Class/Job gets 20 skills..

Assuming we're only talking about Combat thats 7 Current classes plus a minimum of 2 being added for a total of 9.

Thats 180 skills.

5 races, 2 genders, two tribes - lets eliminate tribes, but if your doing races you have to do genders cause girls and guys dont move the same.

Thats 10 race for 180 skils thats 1,800 ability animations.

2.0 has been in development for a year and a half, and FFXIV has some of the most intricate combat animations of any game, let alone an MMO.

I would love to meet the animation team who can create 1,800 noticeably different, aesthetically pleasing combat animations that are FFXIV level intricate while completing all other in game animations in one and a half years...