Realm Reborn = downgrade?

[Nemy]

I'm not at all a huge forum poster, but seeing how this thread has developed and the live demo we saw yesterday I feel the need to chime in.

The animations are currently unacceptable. There is no reason why we can't have nice animations. If the dev team is so concerned about them getting in the way of combat the solution is very simple.

Allow abilities to clip animations.

Your welcome SE. Oh and welcome to the year 2012. The game can look good the way it deserves and you've got your combat response. I believe both are critical in an MMO today. Especially one that must remove the stain of it's history like this one must.

This game was a huge embarrasing failure and everyone in the world knew it. Despite that we continue to play but were not enough. You need to win the hearts and minds of 10 times as many poeple.

Restore the proper animations and allow them to be clipped.

Also the basic character movement is atrocious. Look.... I'll play this game no matter what. But for the masses who only remember the epic failure this game was..... this game has to be a grand slam, far beyond the rest.

Make this happen SE. We've all heard "oh it's only alpha"/"oh it's only beta" too many times before.

It's now or never

I generally agree, apart from 2 parts.

The animation issue is not that simple. They couldn't just allow abilities to overwrite the current animation and be done with it. The proof is simply the fact that they haven't done it. They're not stupid. Maybe the problem was RAM limitations, i don't know. I do know though, that no matter what the problem is, releasing the game with such animations (even if they "polish" them) is, like you said unacceptable, for a lot of people, including me.

Like i said before in this thread (and i was completely ignored by someone) : It makes no sense to degrade your strong point, that is immersion, (design/animation) in your attempt to mimic someone else's gameplay. MMO gameplay follows a similar pattern in every game. What would draw people into FFXIV? Yet another similar gameplay?

What would make sense, would be keeping the quality of their strong point intact as a priority, and make the gameplay as accessible as possible, while adding tons of content.

The other thing i disagree with, is to declare that you will play the game no matter what. Even if that's true, i wouldn't want them to think that their current fan base are just blind followers that will play, and pay whatever they shove down their throats.

Personally, if the game was released at the state that i see in those videos, even after "polishing" the animation, i wouldn't pay, or play it. That's what unacceptable means anyway.