Realm Reborn = downgrade?

[Nemy]

Nitpicking pre-alpha footage is pointless for the following reasons:

1) You haven't seen it yet
2) You haven't played it yet
3) They're not accepting your feedback yet.

See my first post. Why don't you join alpha and find out whether or not you care?

Your argument is invalid for the following reasons.

1) We have seen it
2) There are very solid reasons to think the shown animation will end up being the final product such as :
-The date of the demo shown is too close to Alpha, and character animation is a fundamental thing that is always done before Alpha testing.
-The difference is huge, we're not talking about character hair floating here, its like they threw away the whole thing and replaced it with #263863 generic animation from World of Genericraft.
-It makes sense to do it, if they chose to go the easy way of addressing the issues of animation lock and implementing jumping.
3) We shouldn't care if they "accept our feedback" yet, this is SE official forums, and this is the place, but most importantly the time to talk about it.
4) If we wait until Alpha it would be more difficult to change such a huge thing as animation. Its not a quest bug i can report and wait for the next patch.

[Reitsu]

when alpha comes out we will see the game and post feedback on what we think is wrong and who knows maybe they will listen to the alpha testers

[Neptune]

Your argument is invalid for the following reasons.

[bobbygunz]

And the moral of the story is:
Do you want the animations or not?

Just say if you want them or not, instead of crying because it's pre alpha or whatever other excuse you give to suck up to S.E.

[JusticeReborn]

To be honest, I watched that video and also thought things seemed downgraded. I also worry about the "it's alpha" excuse, since it makes me think back to "it's just beta" excuse of yesteryear.

[Raubahn]

To be honest, I watched that video and also thought things seemed downgraded. I also worry about the "it's alpha" excuse, since it makes me think back to "it's just beta" excuse of yesteryear.

k then watch this and compare it with what we have you will know about the so called "pre-alpha"
its xiv 1.0 in gamescom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVr_S...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu3wrXBaRKA

i mean for god sake the game hasnt yet been complete yet and yoshi said there are major things gonna change from that video the 2012 gamescom one.

[Shura]

I was referring to Alpha when I said they weren't accepting feedback yet. I don't have enough information to form an opinion yet with movement quality. Unless I have a controller in my hands, I'm just not willing to make any judgements about it.

However, I will judge based on the rampant trolling about graphical quality based on second-hand footage off gamescom that people who are complaining about it are probably just complaining for the heck of it.

Grass post.

I too was referring to Alpha when i replied, pretty sure they are not referring to the current version of the game when they ask us for opinions and suggestions. There is no final version of 2.0 since its still in Alpha, i dont see an issue with making suggestions based on footage of the Alpha version.

I Agree, there are a lot of troll threads such as the grass issue but i honestly don't consider the OP a troll, i think the question and issue is a reasonable concern. When i first saw the ARR footage, i also noticed the downgrade in animation and its nice to see other people have similar concerns.

Your right there is not enough information but there is some and based on what little information we have, the animation is currently not in ARR Alpha. Whether this is because its Alpha or because it was taken out completely is the question and that's what i think OP wants to know, all it takes is one small Dev reply, the fact we have not heard anything in return has me concerned a bit.

[VanillaLatte]

I really hope they add the animations back. More dynamic battle doesn't mean unrealistic movements. Realistic movement should be part of the strategy to consider when you execute your commands. I hope it won't become like every other RPGs, which just blatantly ignore any transitional animations.

[Zaireeka2025]

It doesn't even have to be the same animations directly lifted from FFXIV 1.xx, but some new subtle transitional animations unique to ARR would be good too. Something with a sense of timing that works well with the new engine.

[Tak]

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