Quote Originally Posted by gifthorse View Post
The 10,000 that want to chat up miqotes while they fight instead of actually fight are the minority in the MMO community at large.

People want an engaging combat system that reflects... you know... actual combat.

Lol, chatting while fighting, get real.
I liked chatting while fighting in XI, everyone did it. We'd all end up asking each other to the party in auto translate one person would say "oh crap" in the party chat, and we'd all figure out we were american's and we'd laugh about it a little bit, then start chatting about stuff in general. If you're in a linkshell with your friends you do chat while fighting in XIV it just now happens over vent, if FFXIV had come standard with some kind of voice chat system I could see a whole action based combat being in this game, but it didn't, they expected you to type to people to at least convey basic things to them while partying, and it was awkward to try and type to people with this current system.

edit: on a side note games that are action based lets say like DCUO are really limited in the amount of abilities you can equip at one time, even more so than FFXIV, if they had kept the amount of actions we could equip low (alpha closed beta action costs), that's more on par with action based games.