Letter Live - Jumping OMFGFollow

Just chill dude, of course they are jumping all over the place it's a new motion....and a pretty cool one at that. These things settle down after a short time..

Holy **** dude, are you a troll? Because every topic you make is 2 sentences and complaining about something that's already been beat to death in a much more intelligent thread on the Lodestone. Get a blog, there's no need to make a new thread every time you have a thought.

From my limited understanding, a big part of alpha testing is telling everybody "Go to X and do action Y" to see what happens when a lot of people do the same thing.

So if that's the case, this may be the jump testing.

Jumper Fatigue now someone is going to make a fatigue video to explain how long jumping last for each job.

they r excite.

they're getting a revamped FFXIV afterall!

Edited, Nov 11th 2012 8:58am by justamemory

Aww.... Come on... Even if you didn't agree with fatigue the guy who put that video together did an excellent job explaining something no body else could.

OMFGBBQSAUCE people are jumping. Lets have SE write something in the code to make it so you are only allowed X amount of jumps per Y amount of time. I'd love to see them devote time to that instead of combat, UI, or story.

Heck...maybe Yoshi will make a new poll that just revolves around this and Electroboy can write a blog about the results.

One can only hope.

Agreed, but that doesn't make the wait any better. Especially when it is looking as good as what I've seen recently.

I don't know why jumping bothers people so much. It's my game, I'll jump around like a douche all I want.

In the absence of being allowed to jump, I'll spam the most overt emote available to me. In this case, it's been Elezen's "/Happy" and "Laugh".

In the absence of sufficiently annoying emotes, I will constantly unsheathe my weapon so that both the sound and the glowey effect of Ifrit's Axe will make me stand out from the crowd.

If that's not enough, I'll spam all my self target abilities, or cast holy and flare over and over.

NOT having a jump command makes it feel antiquated. I played SWTOR for a year and the only time I saw jumping was people bored in the central hub, and these are the instances that people will do all these other annoying things instead. If you're out playing the game, you'll hardly notice.


Edited, Nov 11th 2012 4:30pm by Louiscool

He's right: there's nothing more unique about FFXIV than its jump-spamming: almost no other MMORPG offers such a "pretty cool" feature. And, just like in WoW, after the first few weeks nobody will uselessly hop about at every opportunity, while waiting, while travelling, or while fighting.

I will jump. Especially around corners. To break everyone's immersion.
The hilarious fun I get out of it is the reason I pay my subs.

"Squarez! We needz jumpingz!"

*They add jumping after years of people wanting it*

"OMFG >_< WHY IS EVERYONE JUMPINGZ? D:"

Sigh.

And the reason they didn't add jumping to FFXI is because they would have to code it into the game, and SE in the past has been strict against doing actual work.


Edited, Nov 11th 2012 6:48pm by Raiendel

Viertel, you just made coffee come out my nose. Thanks.

Edited, Nov 12th 2012 9:35am by Louiscool

Electro, that's fine. They have a /blist for a reason :D

I would be all for an option to not show others jumping. It's your game too. But don't hinder my experience by banning jumping or adding a fatigue meter.

I once had a buddy who claimed the same "immersion" statement. That was until he had kids and they were old enough to go around skipping everywhere with little bunny hops. Never once saw him yell at the kids to sit the @#%^ down because they were breaking his immersion.

Edited, Nov 12th 2012 6:54am by Elionara
Directed at those "immersion" "people"

Edited, Nov 12th 2012 6:54am by Elionara

lolwhut?

No. It would be SILLY to add the ability to jump and then say "but you can't do it much, because we have a few whiny kids who don't like seeing it. Oh, but you can still stand around in your mithra underwear in town spamming Flare to draw attention to your player bazaar. Yeah, that doesn't break the immersion to wear a thong and Santa Boots in town, it's the jumping."

You are inserting YOUR preference into MY paid gaming experience. That is why. I pay SE money, but please, god, don't annoy electromagnet because you think it looks cool to jump over things.

Walking from point A to Point B can be boring. Occasionally, I may feel the urge to jump FOR NO REASON! Hell, I might even jump down a cliff and do a 720 spin, for ****s and giggles. I do it in Halo, Boarderlands, I do it in Dark Souls, I do it because I can.

I want the freedom to do whatever the hell I want without player-created barriers. I'm 100% for your ability to not have to see it, but WHY does a developer have to cater to your preferences when they have ABSOLUTELY no impact on gameplay or balance? No one complains about "sexy gear" or holiday attire, or silly moogle weapons, but they all "break immersion."

Does this not break your immersion? This is BATTLE gear, not event gear:

http://imgur.com/mYC4t

What about this impromptu White Mage Vs Black Mage line dance-off we started one day because we were bored in Ul'dah?

http://imgur.com/tmAlE

Or this time an event NPC was glitched and I just couldn't resist standing here AFK for the rest of the day...

http://i.imgur.com/VrJx5.jpg


Ok, the last one was a bit immature... but seriously.. Jumping is not your problem, it's just the only one you think you can solve.

here's a low quality version with no subtitles, but the tour of the environment still looks amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw2R9Naw9rU&feature=player_embedded

Just to get the facts straight, this was mostly JP players and was due to a mistake on SEs part. It's considered rude to stare at people in their culture and the /check message read along the lines of "stared at me fixedly" for Japanese players. Even I find that a bit creepy to be honest ._.

i love this honestly...

/shake then?

Good. For the sake of argument, read my future posts with a comical sensibility. I don't take things too seriously and when you remember the context (date, time, and what I was trying to accomplish) in which this post was writtin, then you'll see the humor in it and hopefully we can all have a good laugh about these things rather than fight about them.

/bow

Jumping will become a meaningless emote pretty quickly with all the invisible walls in game. All of us know of impossibly high beautiful spots to suicide off of or those spots high level mobs 10 feet away aggro then run around and lose hate.Unless there's a few animation frames of invincibility during jump its just an emote.