New interview from Famitsu Connect-On Magazine Aug.2011

[Biggs]

Some of the things mentioned are good (new tutorials, and the fact they are trying to make the game more universally acceptable).

But the job system just sounds so crap... FFS. Essentially they are ruining the armory system. Just remove the armory system if you're going to ruin it!


Also, a crafter is now a materia-worker? All gear will be dropped from NMs and all crafters will do is upgrade materia slots?

Lame!


Are they trying to ruin the game even more?

Actually it sounds like you will still be able to mix and match skills when you are playing as a class, but when you switch to a specific job mode (like PLD, Bard, ect) you lose some of that ability in favor of gaining more advanced skills. I was bummed about about this news at first too but, when you think about it, it actually makes it so they can add a ton of different jobs and classes to the game. When you think about all the jobs they have ever made in the FF series, you realize this gives them the chance to add a ton of variety. For every class they release later, it essentially adds 2 or more new jobs to the game. If done right, this could be an awsome system.

As to the lame comment about materia, I think its even lamer to let the best gear in the game only go to those that can come up with 32 people that can help them camp the hardest mobs in the game. Because that seemed to work out really well for the little guys in xi.

[Zanfire]

Actually it sounds like you will still be able to mix and match skills when you are playing as a class, but when you switch to a specific job mode (like PLD, Bard, ect) you lose some of that ability in favor of gaining more advanced skills. I was bummed about about this news at first too but, when you think about it, it actually makes it so they can add a ton of different jobs and classes to the game. When you think about all the jobs they have ever made in the FF series, you realize this gives them the chance to add a ton of variety. For every class they release later, it essentially adds 2 or more new jobs to the game. If done right, this could be an awsome system.

As to the lame comment about materia, I think its even lamer to let the best gear in the game only go to those that can come up with 32 people that can help them camp the hardest mobs in the game. Because that seemed to work out really well for the little guys in xi.

Except this game limits you to 8...so it cant be that bad. I think thats part of the MMO-verse in the first place. You play more, do more events, kill more things with more people, you get the best stuff. id rather they not let some halfwit get the best stuff because he can buy it. Nor do i want them to dumb everything down so "everyone" can get the best stuff, part of MMOs is the "showing off" part is it not?

Its a game, thats how game would always really work, if someone has more time and wants to work harder, thats their business. You can apply that to just about anything in life. Guy #1 might spend more time in a game, but #2 spends more time with family, so in the end, everyone gets and looses something for the time and effort they put into things.