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.

[Kiroh]

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

So they're cutting some animations from the game so they don't have to spend the time/money to render them into ARR, but they're also spending more time/money to create all new animations from scratch?

Wait....wut? ~_~

[Angelas]

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

[Esk]

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

Blaa.... I'm really hoping this is just things not finished as its alpha atm, some cutting down I understand to help people run the game with more people on the screen and on low/mid end PC's but meh, the quality of the animation and textures was a saving grace of the game.

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

As much as I'm in agreement..

The its Alpha, It's beta, It'll be better after launch! was used a lot in the previous alpha/beta forums to try and get people to stop raising things they considered an issue.
An we know how that ended, it as no diffident in the end.

[mekia]

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

[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.

[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.