"Horizontal progression" was a convoluted mess and wouldn't survive in today's MMO. Having to save multiple gear sets for one job at a time isn't my idea of fun. I don't get why anyone would want that back...then again, FFXI players are known masochists who adore being treated like dirt and trudging through a game that isn't any fun (while still complaining endlessly about it), and now they want XIV to emulate this?

Sorry, but they want XIV to actually succeed. XI was a miserable failure anywhere outside japan, it was barely even a blip on the radar for critics to bother with it, lol. We don't need that again.

This is how modern MMOs work. Old content becomes obsolete (waaait, FFXI did that too...remember garrison, etc? hurr) Deal with it.