[dev1008] About Jumping

[Rowyne]

Everyone in favour of free roaming jump: When was the last time you randomly jumped irl?

No, but I'm able to step over things. And jumping will allow us to step over/across/down from things that are in our way.

Please, this is 2011, give us freeform jumping!

[IchiTaru]

FFXIII was terrible and I hope to god no one plans on bringing any of the game mechanics over to FFXIV. I think that adding a 'jump' button to this game would insult the Final Fantasy purists (the only people still playing this game) and to see people jumping around as their only means of transport would be plain obnoxious. I can understand that the dev team is trying to tap into what made other MMOs popular, but FFXIV has no personality as it stands, jumping players would just add to that.

I'll take a chocobo over a 'jump' any day of the week!

[Frebaut]

They way the Dev/op describes how the jump feature is used i like it. I have no problem with it. For the rest of the FF boys who don't like just blink when your Char jumps so you don't need to see it.

[Eresse]

jk read way above.

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Yes to jump, PERIOD
Won't hurt the people who don't want it at all, if you don't want to jump don't press the button. But I want to jump as do many others.

[Menchi]

Yes to jump, PERIOD
Won't hurt the people who don't want it at all, if you don't want to jump don't press the button. But I want to jump as do many others.

It isn't about people not wanting to jump themselves, it is about not wanting everyone bunny hopping about.

The majority of people in this thread, seem to be happy with the approach the OP suggested. I don't think it'd be fair on either side to go to one extreme or the other, and think a contextual based jump system would be a wonderful comprimise.

It allows those who want to jump over small obstacles the choice to do so, and it prevents bunny hopping everywhere.

[Sarchy_Warchy]

This is 2011.


END ALL BE ALL REASON WHY WE NEED SOME FORM OF JUMP: A 1 foot high cliff that instead of just walking over to go forward, we have to take a 15 minute detour to get around.

wut?

[Mr_Gyactus]

I don't really feel the jump so important. Someone wrote "jump is for new MMO". I find Jump already old.

If you can add some real use of jump:
(example)
When jumping I can damage more with a certain skill, or attack some particular part of a monster.
But if the only things jump adds is some form of suicide, or to climb over a fence, I can live without.
Yes, it can add a dimension in some quest or some fight, but this is possible with some tool (use an item) or a contextual jump, as already said.

[Wolfie]

To put in some perspective, in WOW jumping is used for:

Getting through some dungeons (BFD)
Avoiding monster attacks (Quake, etc.)
During PVP (clever use, your character keeps going forward during a jump, but you can turn around mid-jump and attack anyone behind you)
Some quests/puzzles
Several boss encounters

Poopooing jumping because some people hop around when bored seems stupid compared to the extra layer of complexity it can add to combat or other game areas.

[Tivonna]

Fix landscape issues and you dont need jump.