Why can't we have jobs with this level of depth and customization in FFXIV?

[Luvbunny]

Well to be fair, FFXI does have a few good battle systems, namely Voidwatch, which is FAR more superior that this absolute mess of The Hunt from FF14. I see no reasons why Yoshi cannot "steal" as many great stuffs from FF11 and implement it here with some tweakings. Lord knows, FF11 is copying a boatload of FF14's features in their game now, which is a welcome change. The old FFXI is trash, absolute garbage of a game, so glad it is no longer exist. The "new" FFXI did amazing job, Seeker of Adoulin was a hot mess when it launched, but the new team did fantastic job in the past one year alone and changed FFXI for the better. So many great features added to make FFXI far more enjoyable and accessible, and yet still obliterate all noobies who try to brute force tank and spank SoA endgame contents.

The new team is hard at work to balance other support jobs but I understand it takes time to untangle the absolute mess of spaghetti code and crappy ideas from "old school FFXI". They added so many new features to Red Mage, Corsair and Geomancer - though they need to work harder on this to replace people's opinion "we cannot win if we don't have Bard in our group" mentality. Give it another year and I would think FFXI will be completely modernized up to par to FF14. The amount of contents they add every month is very good for a game that is 11 years old. Jobs balance still a big issue there - I realize it is not easy to balance over 20 jobs.