Quote Originally Posted by FrankReynolds View Post
There were virtually no consequences when they were introduced. They were introduced as something that would have little to no bearing on how well the job performed. A small bonus that could be acquired through normal participation in events people were already doing. Now, they are an event in and of themselves and they make a considerable difference for some jobs. Not only that, but they are an event where a lot of people / jobs have to solo. If what they say now is true, that difference will only get bigger and bigger.

It's fine if you just want to keep them how they are, but it's pretty silly to pretend that you don't know why people are upset.
What are these considerable differences? How are any of them so considerable that they become an absolute requirement? Some of them are GOOD, yes. I love the extra 500 HP curing I get from Chakra from having 10/10 Chakra job points on Monk. I did that because I enjoyed farming the job points and I enjoy maximizing the strength of Chakra. But if I hadn't done this, I'd still be a functioning Monk.

In Spring of 2012, they added Arise and Meteor scrolls for WHM and BLM. Arise is a great spell: 3 minute weakness, full HP raise, and reraise effect. Meteor is kinda crummy unless you can get other Black Mages to chain cast with you. Because of the scarcity, they cost 25 million gil. I like my WHM and put a lot of pride into being a good WHM, but I wasn't going to spend 25 million on a single spell. But on your reasoning, because Arise existed, and was actually good, it was now "required", and I was obligated to farm gil to raise the 25 million. I didn't do that. I didn't get the spell until about a year later when the price came down under 5 million (now it's even cheaper). I still functioned as a WHM just fine.

This is what infuriates me about this thread. People are saying "I don't want to farm job points and I thought I wouldn't have to but now Square Enix is changing the system to make it so I have to!!!!".... but nobody provides any actual evidence of how the job points are required. It's all just "job points exist, and I want them, so they are required". You still didn't answer my question. I asked "what are the consequences of not having job points"? Instead you acted all huffy and dodged the question by pretending it was rhetorical.

Job points are no more "required" than something like Ginsen or Tinhaspa or Jugo Kukri or any Mythic weapon. They're pretty much just like merit points only harder to get.