[dev1022] Auto-attack system questions and discussion

[Malakhim]

I don't know about most of you, but when I'm playing a video game, I want to be engaged and focused on the game, not watching TV or doing anything else. If you find yourself doing just that in any MMO, then that should probably be indicative of a huge problem with MMOs in general, which is that people would rather be doing other crap than be focused on the combat.

I feel that introducing an active battle system in FFXIV is something SE did to deal with that, but people still don't appreciate the fact that you ARE engaged and you HAVE to be able to react with the right abilities at the right moments. This could probably say something worrying about MMO players in general, and it makes me question why they're playing MMOs in the first place.

I think this is why we can't come to a consensus as to why an auto-attack should or shouldn't be introduced to the game. What are "traditional" MMO players looking for in an MMO?

Or maybe the question should be rephrased to "what makes the game uninteresting enough that people would want to do something else while "playing" it?