Petition: Keep the Animation!~

[Onisake]

It comes down to what could, and could not, be done with the old engine (old animations and their coding) and what the new engine can do and what it is capable of.

I like the animations we have currently. the attack, running around, it all feels very fluid and real. even casting.

Animation lock is an issue, becuase the way it is written and looks now, is when you cast or do an action your legs are not moving.

this can be fixed by sliding. IE you can move even though your legs aren't moving, or you can overwrite the animation with running. IE: you can complete the cast still, but you lose the animation because you are moving.

I think this is where some people are confused, and are tieing these animation to animation lock. I personally am Ok with sliding. I'm also ok with animation lock. but I also agree that things could be better paced. I dont' believe that speed means good pacing either. so just saying 'combat is faster' doesnt mean it is better paced. if each fight takes 30 seconds on average and is boring. I'll be bored playing. i'd prefer 3-4 minute fights that are action packed and entertaining, but I understand some people don't feel the way i feel. they'd rather just stab a mob in the face and be done with it. I used to lose myself for hours playing FFT. the fights there took a long time sometimes. but i wouldn't say there had poor pacing.

A lot of gamers covet twitch reflex. so they like things fast, micro-second reactions. etc. i don't think this type of gameplay has a place in the MMORPG world. in a game like Mechwarrior or League of Legends I can see it being important. but i don't really feel that my FFXIV needs to be super fast paced.

[Dawiichan]

I am mostly worried about the back pedaling. I often run backwards with my camera facing a mob (like on ifrit and chimera when I am dodging voice of the dragon) I dont want to lose being able to run into my camera XD

They said awhile ago that there was going to be a special camera view that lets it look behind you. I'm guessing this is for people that are used to running backwards or kiting.

[Kiote]

They said awhile ago that there was going to be a special camera view that lets it look behind you. I'm guessing this is for people that are used to running backwards or kiting.

Rear-view mirror modes are no better than backpedaling.

People want to be able to turn around.

[Zezlar]

I want to be able to turn around. That honestly is a deal breaker for me. I don't like backpedaling.

[Xmbei]

What are you even, what? That's the worst argument ever.

lol no it's not because I understood what she was saying, what makes FF distinquish itself from other rpgs and aesthetically unique? Okay animations and graphics are one, but all games have that, so not unique, but what is true FF aesthetics? What makes us love FF and need it in to make it unique? I bet if you took a poll, Moogles, Cid, Airships, Chocobos, Jobs (WHM BLM DRG) make it a FF. So that is the Aesthetics FFXIV needed and we got them. It is what makes us want to play a FF and makes it a good FF. When we got 1.0 we didn't get those aesthetics, we just got a game in a world that made me feeling for about 6 months... This doesn't feel like a FF at all! But oh it sure looks pretty! but it was not a FF, aesthetically!

[Anonymoose]

Why does this whole concept of "THE ANIMATIONS" revolve around the assumption that they didn't do a cost-benefit analysis of having it and decided it was better to drop the little stumble and strafe and just have us jog, walk, n' stop? Would opting to keep something we already have at the cost of desired progress not be a worse back-peddling?

And furthermore, if this breaks your game play experience, how the hell did you even make it this far into the Final Fantasy XIV Experience?

The poor quality of this game's origin has really given us quite the entitlement. If you went back to 2010 and told me that one day, the most rage in FFXIV would be caused by grass and strafing animations, you'd be laughed off the face of Eorzea.

[Sawyer]

Tanaka was ahead of his time!

I'll miss you FFXIV 1.0 aesthetics!

/petition signed!

[Sabaku_Usagi]

I bet the back pedaling is so black mages can't insta-cast thundara while running away from you in PVP

[Shougun]

Why does this whole concept of "THE ANIMATIONS" revolve around the assumption that they didn't do a cost-benefit analysis of having it and decided it was better to drop the little stumble and strafe and just have us jog, walk, n' stop? Would opting to keep something we already have at the cost of desired progress not be a worse back-peddling?

And furthermore, if this breaks your game play experience, how the hell did you even make it this far into the Final Fantasy XIV Experience?

The poor quality of this game's origin has really given us quite the entitlement. If you went back to 2010 and told me that one day, the most rage in FFXIV would be caused by grass and strafing animations, you'd be laughed off the face of Eorzea.

Everyone understands that they did a cost analysis and decided to drop them.

What people are missing is a lot of people are saying "Hey SE redo your analysis because this important to us"

Users are allowed to do that. Feature is gone, the feature was important - thus a petition to bring the feature back.

[casevi]

i thought you were posting on your other name Mizukage