"Open Style" vs "Rigid Structure" what do you want for the future of FFXIV

[bojangles]

My point comes in describing how I play with my two close friends.

Firstly, we are a close LS so we use VOIP. secondly we define our own roles. He and his wife are both lalafell mages while me being the big Hyur tank. These are our main roles, once these get fagged (fatigued) we change our class and move to a lower level area. Cue: Behest Leves NMs.

So here it comes, This game is not for the Anit-Social elitist, Unfortunatly that is what it was made for.
If you choose to make it rigid DO IT. force your party to retain what is unique to their class otherwise choose another LS or another Party. I can do it. I can just be a tank > tonnes of buffs and covers and taunts. My bud plays his DD mage and his mrs. plays our cleric. We, he goes PUG im now THM and she has gone back to Ul'dah to craft. then she comes back as an Archer so I change to my Lancer. Within freedom you can MAKE rigidness, within a rigid game design that is what you are stuck with. PEOPLE DEFINE YOUR OWN ROLES.

Also something else that was cool: We nearly failed a low lvl leve, but for the simple cause that we had other higher ranked classes we ran back over to those gnats and dropped them like proverbial flies.
that was an awesome feeling.

[Neptune]

Pretty soon I'll be telling kids to get off my lawn.

Yeah I feel like that sometimes already.. I have to stop myself. lol

there is something called creativity.. you can take mage spells and put them together with a DD job and basically make your own DRK (Example)..

Its funny how people cant handle choices.

It is funny. It makes me angry. As my friend below says you can make rigidness.. so all the whiners are gonna get is to take away my freedom.. and I'm.. A PATRIOT!!!

Within freedom you can MAKE rigidness, within a rigid game design that is what you are stuck with. PEOPLE DEFINE YOUR OWN ROLES.

Also something else that was cool: We nearly failed a low lvl leve, but for the simple cause that we had other higher ranked classes we ran back over to those gnats and dropped them like proverbial flies.
that was an awesome feeling.

Excellent first post sir. You are absolutely right. People can define their own roles. It'd be nice if they woke up and realized that.