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

[Radnar]

Because it takes weeks to create just one of those animations(not including implementation and testing), they cost a fortune, and To actually think up 10 variations of a single skill 1800 times is next to impossible.

Alright. So then why has every other MMO I've ever played, from FFXI onwards, and every other MMO currently on the market, been able to do it? And don't tell me it's because FFXIV has higher quality animations. FFXIV has a higher polycount, but their competitors already doing comperable - if not better and more varried - animation in their products.

Time may be a limiting factor, but it is no excuse to accept mediocrity.

[Kiote]

Alright. So then why has every other MMO I've ever played, from FFXI onwards, and every other MMO currently on the market, been able to do it? And don't tell me it's because FFXIV has higher quality animations. FFXIV has a higher polycount, but their competitors already doing comperable - if not better and more varried - animation in their products.

Time may be a limiting factor, but it is no excuse to accept mediocrity.

Because they were in development for 5+ years.

What creates mediocrity is trying to rush out a bunch of crappy Animations in a completely unrealistic time line. Look at all the new gear they have implemented. Even with 1.0's crappy launch you never saw a single instance of clipping in Gear. Now, because they are rushing, every new piece of armour clips through bodies and other pieces of armour.

They could implement race specific animations before relaunch, but you know what we would end up with? The animations at 1.0 launch.

And for the record, FFXIV has significantly more intricate animations than every other MMO on the market. Most other MMO uses the same animation repeatedly and add flashing lights to cover the weapon so users can't see it.

[Radnar]

Because they were in development for 5+ years.

Even if they were, so was FFXIV.

And for the record, FFXIV has significantly more intricate animations than every other MMO on the market. Most other MMO uses the same animation repeatedly and add flashing lights to cover the weapon so users can't see it.

That you think this only tells me you haven't been playing what else the market has to offer.

Also, a massive number of XI's skills were repeats of other skills. There were actually very few Different animations. They did the same trick as most current MMOs. They used the same animation and added a different light.

FFXIV does this too.

[Kiote]

FFXIV does this too.

The point of this Dev comment was to say they were undoing that..