If you read my earlier posts in this thread you know I'm one of those people who want the high quality animation to be present in ARR, that being said i thought i would point out a recent dev reply since no one else has done so yet. In the JP section a question was asked in regards to why weapon animation was left out when switching between passive/active mode in the video (didn't even notice) and the dev replied saying it's because its still in development but the final release will have weapon animation like the current version. While this reply is in regards to weapon animation, it still gives me hope since we now know some animations were left out on purpose because of the build version and hopefully the movement animation is also one of them.

I do urge people to continue discussing issues and voice concerns though and not simply wait till Alpha or Beta. This is indeed pre-alpha but most of us won't get into Alpha and Alpha has limited testers, the nature of the beast really. So i don't understand the mentality of waiting for something u might not get in to or simply assuming those who do will voice your concerns. Good chance we probably won't even see Alpha leaks since leaking means losing your current account and not just test privilege, not many people will risk that. Then comes Beta but Beta builds are usually near finished product, at this point they are simply doing large scale server tests and progression tests, they might make small changes such as mob lv or difficulty but game changing mechanics usually do not happen at this late stage.

ARR is a bit different from other MMO development since its progressing at a higher then normal speed, less 4 months till the anticipated open beta/launch and we still have not started Alpha testing, which most likely wont start till October so its really 3 months between Alpha and open beta/launch.(assuming Launch takes as long as early 2013) There won't be anyone else to blame this time around, sure SE messed up big the first time but so did we, i remember all the white knighting on FFXIVCore every time an issue was brought up; "Its still in development", "Final won't be like that" "Stop complaining about unfinished product" Lets not repeat this again please^^