Lack of animations not addressed in live letter

[Kule]

we would like to polish this game to be up with world class games

I'm sure I’ll be flamed but this was a perfect opportunity for them to quell our worry that the animations will stay 'as is'. I think it's obvious now that they are going with what the wow/typical mmo player is used to and no longer want to keep the realistic animations we had.
For me it's a real immersion breaker and a shame.

I understand the animations aren’t important for a lot of players. It just seems a shame that we are losing ver 1.0's saving grace, It was one of the few things reviewers praised.

[Roukiz]

I hear you.

I can only hope the animations, at the very least are touched up when beta comes round.

[KamikazeMan]

They mentioned before that some animations were cut to cut down on cost. They also mentioned that they were adding more animations.

[Angelas]

I also noticed walking backwards without turning around and without a weapon drawn... hmmm

[mekia]

It was addressed with "A L P H A". This game is like what 5-6 Month away of being released.

[Gokulo]

I'd wait until we get to beta with that. They did not put a lot of stuff into Alpha client and it's not getting updated along the way since they are working on the Beta version at the same time and it contains all the graphical goodies.

[casker]

I'm glad someone else made this thread so I don't have to.

Looking through the official gridania alpha video thread, it's pretty clear that the animation is one of the main concerns.

So far I think this is really the only big eye sore in what appears to be an otherwise awesome revamp, and if they want to make a world class game they need their world class animation back. If they can just do this, they are golden for me. I don't want to look at FFXIV and constantly feel like it's sloppy and downgraded.

[Kule]

It was addressed with "A L P H A". This game is like what 5-6 Month away of being released.

They could have said something as simple as "don't fret, we're looking into adding a few more character animations".
Just anything to put our concerns at ease. They mentioned that they were working on re-shaping armour to fit the new race genders and we were also shown a new mount, so from that they obviously don't mind showing/discussing wip material.

[viion]

Similar topic http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post812226

The only Dev response and reply to movement animations I think is this one: (From 11th of September)
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post821375

While the animations were nice, the development team's number one focus in A Realm Reborn is on gameplay so even though they were nice animations, the team made the decision to remove them.

Can people please supply a source to things like "they responded with its alpha" and "they will add more", its building expectations that have a chance of not being fulfilled (ala 1.0 launch).

[Abriael]

I'm sure I’ll be flamed but this was a perfect opportunity for them to quell our worry that the animations will stay 'as is'. I think it's obvious now that they are going with what the wow/typical mmo player is used to and no longer want to keep the realistic animations we had.
For me it's a real immersion breaker and a shame.

I understand the animations aren’t important for a lot of players. It just seems a shame that we are losing ver 1.0's saving grace, It was one of the few things reviewers praised.

or maybe they simply had a ton of questions to answer, and they decided not to respond to the one you wanted?