Quote Originally Posted by Jynx View Post
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.