Rogue/Ninja Starting Class?

[Giantbane]

Hurting the feelings of those that love the story and lore (which I do, myself) is less risky and less likely to result in losing dollars than potentially losing new players who want to play NIN.

Not to mention that anyone that is in love with the story to the point that they will be mortally wounded by this minor blip in the narrative will have already passed the point where ninja is unlocked. Thus they will never experience this and it will not ruin the story for them. Further mitigating the "damage" that might be caused.

The game is based around leveling multiple class, so people WILL play something beside NIN. If they buy the game only if they can play ROG from the start, that means they're seriously narrow minded.

If this were their mindset, I think they would have placed a greater emphasis on powerful cross class skills, such that leveling multiple classes would be mandatory to playing your character well. While there are some pretty useful cross class skills, none of them are really required save for Provoke on the WAR when you get to Titan EX and above.

Up till now, they didn't seem to want to force players to level up too far with multiple classes if they didn't want to. Only thing that's really required is 15 in another class to unlock the job, but that's it. I would be surprised if they changed this by asking you to level up one class to max and do some additional unlock questing just for the ability to start completely over with another class at level 1.