Alpha First Look: Video 2 - Gridania

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Only thing that I feel is still missing in this day and age, is that the NPCs still don't say anything when you walk by them. The moogle didn't even make a "kupo" noise when you walked by it.

It's been brought up in the forums before, that FFXIII-2 had lively towns with moving and talking NPCs, so why not FFXIV ? Most RPGs have this nowadays as well so it just seems like it's missing. The town just doesn't feel like a real town and once again all the NPCs are just standing in place. Didn't see a single one that was walking around.

Don't mean to sound harsh, but this is the sort of thing that people are looking for in a quality RPG these days, and I think the lack of these sorts of details are what will give the game a bad first impression to outsiders that will try the game out for the first time when it launches.