Eidos sees the light and Garrett thanks a lot.

[zarx]

Alby_da_Wolf said:

zarx said:
pity it's too late to add free jumping, prescripted jump points are so silly lol.

Oh noez, I didn't know about this, what did they do?

"I look to a nearby edge, and a prompt appears telling me I can jump across. Jumping is now a context- sensitive action. “Jumping, bouncing up and down, kind of broke the immersion,” says Schmidt. “We didn’t want you to be the master thief and you just tend to fall off stuff all the time.” "

 

http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/255-thief-feature-a-crime-of-passion/2