Will We Ever Have More Light Party Content?

[Tupsi]

I think the real reason why they take so long to add new jobs is balancing.

Well...they added Summoner in a patch but the summons in an expansion in XI, so that's not it - It's because they made the dumb decision to make most content in this game revolve around 4 man, so that heavily limits what kind of jobs can be added easily. 4 man has no room for a support unless they take away 1 dps, which can slow things WAY down in later levels.

If they switch the party setup to 6 man, 8/9 man or 15 man (1.0) sizes, they can add jobs much more easily because there will actually be "room" for it.

[Gilthas]

Well...they added Summoner in a patch but the summons in an expansion in XI, so that's not it

That's a pretty bad example. I said that they might want to balance jobs and you bring an example of a job that was very, very poorly balanced for most of it's career? Maybe it's their experience with SMN in FFXI that makes them want to be more careful here.

As to 4 man parties... I actually like them. I honestly think that Bard being a hybrid DPS with some support skills makes it a lot more interesting to play than if it were like in FFXI.