Realm Reborn = downgrade?

[KiriA500]

2. Non FFXIV players won't care because it will look and feel like every other MMO on the market, nothing unique, no attention to detail anymore no steps forward and only steps backwards.

Seriously...enough of this garbage. If you think the only thing keeping this game unique compared to games like World of Warcraft or Guild Wars 2 is the animation, than you clearly haven't played those other games.

Even FFXI lacked certain animation steps and still looked 1000000000000x better than even "Alpha" stage of ARR.

[Elexia]

Seriously...enough of this garbage. If you think the only thing keeping this game unique compared to games like World of Warcraft or Guild Wars 2 is the animation, than you clearly haven't played those other games.

When you think about it, the only thing keeping this game unique anymore is indeed graphics. All a White Mage is for example is a healer class with an iconic robe design...that falls in line with graphics.

[Jynx]

If you think the only thing keeping this game unique compared to games like World of Warcraft or Guild Wars 2 is the animation

Well what does seperate FFXIV from the crowd?

We used to have.

Best graphics on the market for MMO
Best animations on the market
Gobal Community
Always alive servers
Best Monster AI in the MMO market
Little hand holding
Longevity of the leveling and exploration process
Being able to play everything with one character.

Slowly putting strike marks through all that unique stuff. All for the sake of living up to the market "Standard".

[KiriA500]

Well what does seperate FFXIV from the crowd?

We used to have.

Best graphics on the market for MMO
Best animations on the market
Gobal Community
Always alive servers
Best Monster AI in the MMO market
Little hand holding
Longevity of the leveling and exploration process
Being able to play everything with one character.

Slowly putting strike marks through all that unique stuff. All for the sake of living up to the market "Standard".

I honestly don't see how anybody can play the current version and say it's the best animation on the market. There is more to this game than starting to run... 90% of the emotes are awful, weapon skill animations are repeated over and over, and none of the NPC's do anything but stand there. At least World of Warcraft has "idle" animations where your character will look around. We just blink.

If Square-Enix has to conform to this, good.

[Nemy]

I honestly don't see how anybody can play the current version and say it's the best animation on the market. There is more to this game than starting to run... 90% of the emotes are awful, weapon skill animations are repeated over and over, and none of the NPC's do anything but stand there. At least World of Warcraft has "idle" animations where your character will look around. We just blink.

If Square-Enix has to conform to this, good.

I'd take the current running animations of FFXIV over any other game even if all the NPC's were active members of Circus Medrano.

My running character is in my face 80% of the time, not them.

[Starlord]

Well what does seperate FFXIV from the crowd?

We used to have.

Best graphics on the market for MMO
Best animations on the market
Gobal Community
Always alive servers
Best Monster AI in the MMO market
Little hand holding
Longevity of the leveling and exploration process
Being able to play everything with one character.

Slowly putting strike marks through all that unique stuff. All for the sake of living up to the market "Standard".

Unique doesn't always mean good in the MMO world. They tried to be "unique" with their Fatigue system... look how far that got them XD.

[Jynx]

Unique doesn't always mean good in the MMO world. They tried to be "unique" with their Fatigue system... look how far that got them XD.

being standard hasn't shown to be great either.

[Elexia]

Unique doesn't always mean good in the MMO world. They tried to be "unique" with their Fatigue system... look how far that got them XD.

Yes it does, this is why there's more MMOs than UO and AO out on the market, by being unique. They implemented Fatigue to try to combat RMT more than anything, this is well known because plenty of Korean MMOs were also implementing a "limiting" type system at the time for the same exact reason.

[Starlord]

Seriously...enough of this garbage. If you think the only thing keeping this game unique compared to games like World of Warcraft or Guild Wars 2 is the animation, than you clearly haven't played those other games.

That is what this whole Thread is about.. some Animation, something or other XD. We always adapt to FFXIV 1.0 changes when they came. FFXIV: ARR is no different, Adapting= Takes time, but it will happen =).

[Jynx]

It has to be a great mix of standard and unique, obviously the proper balance and what those exact things are is going to vary from person to person.

But that's why we are all here to speak our mind on what we think would make 2.0 go above and beyond the MMO standard and become something great.