What's the difference between going to a roulette and getting Halatali, and going into Halatali as a BLU in a premade party?
It's the same content, so why is one taboo and the other one is alright?
1) roulettes are fast and pre-mades are annoying when the rewards are not worth the time. i'll do premades to climb to 100 in HoH, but i'm not doing pre-mades to get the HoH checkbox for WT.
2) leveling roulette gets me tomes for any of my jobs. doing it with BLU only benefits BLU.
i so very rarely do leveling roulettes as it is since all of my jobs are capped. i only do it to help people which is rare.
and Halatali is barely alright, i pray to get more interesting things like HW/SB leveling dungeons none of which BLU can do.
One option gives a reward that is relevant to end game (tomes) or gets a job closer towards end game (xp). The other option of doing Halatali as a BLU gives xp to a dead end job that cannot be used in any relevant content. It can't be used in roulettes, normal or hard mode raids and trials, Centurio Seal hunts, Aquapolis/Uznair maps, new beast tribe quests, HoH, Eureka or the next part of Main Scenario. Those are things people can take their alts to whenever they want to accomplish something of value while they enjoy different kinds of gameplay. Alt jobs are useless if they can't be used to progress your character.
We can already go solo a bunch of open world mobs and unsync dungeons for no reward. No one does it because it's not fun or worth it, regardless of job.
you're going to tell a legacy player who has never been unsubbed who has capped every job that this is the wrong genre for me? really?
you read that quote and you think you didn't get me wrong? explain to me how i like leveling dungeons in HW if age is the only thing that matters?
stop making bogus assumptions. your assessment of FFXIV is also very wrong, they don't try very hard to keep old content relevant.
you're harping on the wrong thing, BLU's problem isn't that it can be played in "old content", BLU's problem is that it CAN NOT be played in CURRENT content.
NIN, DRK, AST, MCH, SAM, RDM all could be played in Halatali during release. the problem with BLU is that you can't play it in Ivalice or the MSQ that's going to be released in the next patch.
bearable is not gladly or enjoyable. it's bearable to a lot of people because it serves other purposes which BLU will not have.
it's not a non-issue because by the time BLU gets the cap raised to 70, the "MSQ that's going to be released in the next patch" will need players to be Level 80 to do it.
By that point, you'll have 17 jobs to run current content with. But apparently people hear BLU and suddenly all other jobs are deleted...
Also, really? Defecating semantics? Compared to using "But I always wanted to main a job I was never sure was coming to the game" as if it's a reasonable argument? Talk about temporal paradoxes.