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Thought I should post this even though none of us still care about the game anymore.
Jump button! :O
I have to give the team credit, at the very least they realize their game was fucked and they are being very transparent on their intentions to fix it. We never EVER knew anything in the pipeline for FFXI until basically the day before the patch.
It will be very interesting to see where FF14 ends up when its all said and done, suffice it to say its going to be very different from the game it was 5 months ago.
One of the change notes made me realize something I hadn't been able to put my finger on with the game before:
whats the point of jumping? the only mmo i ever played where jumping actually served a purpose was asherons call. i never played wow much but jumping in that game looked kinda dumb.
What purpose does jumping serve in any game? Its a means of traversal.
Remember every fucking shit fuck ledge that was ankle high but your guy couldn't walk up it for some mysterious reason on FFXI? Same fucking shit on FF14.
If you can jump up a ledge and not have to walk 300 feet to side just to get to where you need to go that is definitely a good thing. It's not like they're making it into Super Mario Galaxy where you need to triple jump over a chasm to get to the (non-existent) chocobo hut.
The terrain is really bad in FFXIV in parts; there really needs to be a jump as a means to traverse the areas faster. That or make all the terrain flat, which would look unrealistic and take away from it supposed to be an immersive virtual world.
Well, they are trying, like Crush said. It really isn't too difficult to make the gameplay better...
ADD CONTENT!!!!
*Ahem*
Games like WoW and even DC universe the new have 1000s of quests to do. FF14 has barely 100. Make the game streamlined, playable, and unsluggish. It's not that hard to restructure the game, but it will be a very time consuming process.
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