Realm Reborn = downgrade?

[Fensfield]

Sadly, I doubt this is because of pre-Alpha..

The Dumbed down movement animations are probably do to some incompatibility with the new movement control system.

You should expect to see a lot of little things go out the window in favor of more mainstream MMO functionality. Sad.

Tell me about it - it's a pattern we've been seeing since Yoshida came in. Yeah, yeah, lay into me all you like and of course some things have unconditionally improved, but I miss so much the realistically proportioned wildlife, 'hitching' on entities rather than just ghosting through them like they aren't there, and non-combat actions for creatures like warning postures, watching, and so forth.

I just hope they keep that promise made by the rep's a while back to reinstate target-oriented emotes come v2.0. Somehow I get the nasty feeling they plan on trying to sweep that under the carpet.