Quote Originally Posted by Majidah View Post
^This. A thousand times.

I think being able to jump on any surface conveys a cartoon like image, akin to cheap amateur MMORPGs.
While FF does portray things with humor, it has nothing cheap about the way it delivers it. And realism, on top of all, is what's been predominating in its titles. Specially on 1.0.

The whole "more freedom is better" argument is pretty silly, in my opinion.

Otherwise people would be able to walk through water or to jump from any height or get through walls and any obstacles.
What makes one more noteworthy than the other? Just because it hasn't been addressed yet?

You already aren't able to jump off high cliffs due to invisible walls. This serves to portray common sense in your character. And in the same way, it should be portrayed by not allowing them to jump on top of every structure like baboons.
Perhaps my character's innate common sense should also make me unable to attack enemies that will assuredly kill me. I mean my character should innately know that it's a silly thing to do. His common sense self-preservation should kick in and intervene in what I, the player, am telling him to do.

Not being able to jump off of high cliffs isn't exactly comparable to jumping on a tent. One will kill you, the other simply looks silly. Who are you to say that people aren't allowed to look silly?

Invisible walls are just as silly as invisible forces holding up structures. I don't think it's necessarily cartoony, it just not restrictive. As others have mentioned, people can still find ways on top of things they shouldn't. If it's not restricted people are less likely to care because they're not being told not to do that.

I still say this fixation on "realism" is a little ridiculous, considering both scenarios are equally unbelievable. It's a limitation of it being a game, and an MMO at that. No one's said they want to walk on water or through walls, those are not things that the game normally allows you to do. The game world does not treat tents as some special structure that one must never tread upon, because that would be silly.