Petition: Keep the Animation!~

[lololink]

That's why Yoshi's team is working a lot to give us a good game with the delay ...

[Gramul]

That's why Yoshi's team is working a lot to give us a good game with the delay ...

So far, all I see is another WoW clone with pretty lights and a lack of animation, right down to gearscore. I could live with that. I was prepared to jump right in and try it out. But when they start to sacrifice actual elements that separate it from every other MMO on the market, I start to lose interest and I don't want that to happen.

No more excuses for square, at least not from me. I've heard it all before from every company.

[lololink]

it's true that we saw A LOT of gameplay until now ...

[Wolfandre]

I don't post much (nothing to contribute that hasn't already been said, nothing nice to say, etc., etc.), so I try to make these as meaningful as possible. And this time around, I'm inclined to agree with Gramul.

I don't play many modern games; I have a generally low budget for video games, so subscription MMO's are usually where I go. Spent way too much time with FFXI. So, to me, this kind of animation blew my friggin' mind when I finally sallied forth to FFXIV. I adored how my little Jivu character actually started moving, stopped moving, and changed direction before moving when I pushed her in a direction she wasn't facing.

Adored it. And now it's gone.

The game won't feel real anymore. I'm not whining about immersion. My character is no longer believable. If I run down the street, I don't start out running at my maximum velocity. I shouldn't look like that, either. They went to great lengths to make 2.0 look drastically different from the current version. So far, all I've seen is just prettier graphics on the same ol' same ol'. (Whinewhinewhineit'snotoutyet, but that male miqote PLD used Spirits Within and I cringed when it looked exactly the same.)

Mechanics are one thing. If the only thing they fixed was the gathering/crafting systems and the item movement UI, I'd laud this as a great success.

I'm also tired of excuses from this company; you should be fixing the broken game and adding new content to make the game better. Don't take out what was good about it. If I, a person, like mentioned, who can shell out a bit more money to upgrade my hardware to play this game, I think most of their playerbase can too. Scary stop motion.

One step forward and two steps in a bilateral corkscrew, I guess. So while I took a roundabout way of getting here, and in that I usually giggle at Rokien threads, I will sign.


--Jivu Wolfasura on Hyperion (Wolfandre)

[Nemy]

I don't post much (nothing to contribute that hasn't already been said, nothing nice to say, etc., etc.), so I try to make these as meaningful as possible. And this time around, I'm inclined to agree with Gramul.

I don't play many modern games; I have a generally low budget for video games, so subscription MMO's are usually where I go. Spent way too much time with FFXI. So, to me, this kind of animation blew my friggin' mind when I finally sallied forth to FFXIV. I adored how my little Jivu character actually started moving, stopped moving, and changed direction before moving when I pushed her in a direction she wasn't facing.

Adored it. And now it's gone.

The game won't feel real anymore. I'm not whining about immersion. My character is no longer believable. If I run down the street, I don't start out running at my maximum velocity. I shouldn't look like that, either. They went to great lengths to make 2.0 look drastically different from the current version. So far, all I've seen is just prettier graphics on the same ol' same ol'. (Whinewhinewhineit'snotoutyet, but that male miqote PLD used Spirits Within and I cringed when it looked exactly the same.)

Mechanics are one thing. If the only thing they fixed was the gathering/crafting systems and the item movement UI, I'd laud this as a great success.

I'm also tired of excuses from this company; you should be fixing the broken game and adding new content to make the game better. Don't take out what was good about it. If I, a person, like mentioned, who can shell out a bit more money to upgrade my hardware to play this game, I think most of their playerbase can too. Scary stop motion.

One step forward and two steps in a bilateral corkscrew, I guess. So while I took a roundabout way of getting here, and in that I usually giggle at Rokien threads, I will sign.


--Jivu Wolfasura on Hyperion (Wolfandre)

Very well said. Please, if there is a chance for us to change something, we need to be vocal. Keep the threads alive, constantly reminding them that we're not okay with their decision to remove the animations

Quoting this in my thread by the way.

[Rokien]

I don't know how many times i've said this, and others ^. But this is a realistic fantasy. Final Fantasy is suppose to have realistic features with fantasy where they need it.

[Shougun]

+1'd - there is no reason a client side effect cannot be within the game. If it was written server side then the code baffles me.

[lololink]

i think it is server side .

[Calebisasicko]

This is why I voted "yes" in the poll to keep the servers up. Not because I don't think I'll like ARR...but juustttt in case it loses that spark that made it good to me.

[Orophin]

If I, a person, like mentioned, who can shell out a bit more money to upgrade my hardware to play this game, I think most of their playerbase can too. Scary stop motion.

If I had to wager a guess, the graphics change is mostly to accommodate the hardware of the PS3. It almost sounds like you're saying everyone that wants to play ARR should have a PC.