New Jobs Gated Behind Completion of 2.0 Story?

[Valkrist]

Everyone just stop there. It's been stated numerous times by Yoshida that the new jobs ARE NOT GATED AND ARE AVAILABLE RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX.

http://2p.com/9742878_1/FFXIV-Heaven...s-by-Blake-Lau
http://www.vg247.com/2014/10/25/fina...rk-knight-job/

Go back and watch the London Fan Fest. It's very clearly stated by Yoshida live on stage that this job is available to EVERYONE INSTANTLY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...3OGnotA#t=2608

[Bluevann]

Everyone just stop there. It's been stated numerous times by Yoshida that the new jobs ARE NOT GATED AND ARE AVAILABLE RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX.

http://2p.com/9742878_1/FFXIV-Heaven...s-by-Blake-Lau
http://www.vg247.com/2014/10/25/fina...rk-knight-job/

Go back and watch the London Fan Fest. It's very clearly stated by Yoshida live on stage that this job is available to EVERYONE INSTANTLY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...3OGnotA#t=2608

Those interviews are all from last year though. The interview the OP quoted is more recent, and them too had initially been given different information about the jobs (you can see it all in the quote, the "original" answer). So it's very possible that SE simply changed their mind.

[Valkrist]

Those interviews are all from last year though. The interview the OP quoted is more recent, and them too had initially been given different information about the jobs (you can see it all in the quote, the "original" answer). So it's very possible that SE simply changed their mind.

Read again.

All job quests are in Ishgard. Not job unlock. The job's available right out of the box.

[Rikkustrife]

Read again.

All job quests are in Ishgard. Not job unlock. The job's available right out of the box.

Wouldn't the unlock quest be included in job quests?

[Kosmos992k]

Read again.

All job quests are in Ishgard. Not job unlock. The job's available right out of the box.

How can the job be available right out of the box if you cannot journey to Ishgard to talk to the guild NPCs to start the job in the first place? Right out og the box with ARR you can 'start' as any of the basic classes, not jobs, but you can't do much without talking to the guild master for that class. So ev3n if you could start the job "right out of the box" how would you progress it? Job skills are typically tied to job quests after all.

[Omegakiyohime]

Read again.

All job quests are in Ishgard. Not job unlock. The job's available right out of the box.

The Job unlock is usually and initially a job quest. It makes no sense for them to let you play a job, but bar access to the NPCs so that you can get skills, none at all. We will probably find out in a little over a week during the live letter, but I highly doubt that they would separate them as such.

[Valkrist]

The exact same way you got your CE or preorders. The second you log in, you get things delivered to your moogle giving you access to everything RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX. The game from day one has already been handling things this exact same way.

The new interviews have said absolutely nothing about how to unlock the jobs. They're only saying to advance jobs, you must do it in Ishgard.

[Omegakiyohime]

The exact same way you got your CE or preorders. The second you log in, you get things delivered to your moogle giving you access to everything RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX. The game from day one has already been handling things this exact same way.

The new interviews have said absolutely nothing about how to unlock the jobs. They're only saying to advance jobs, you must do it in Ishgard.

CE items still have gated unlocks if they were needed. You couldn't use the mount until you unlocked chocobos through the story and the same has been said of Heavensward's flying mount preorders.

[Kosmos992k]

CE items still have gated unlocks if they were needed. You couldn't use the mount until you unlocked chocobos through the story and the same has been said of Heavensward's flying mount preorders.

BINGO.
Best answer.

[Valkrist]

If you played the game back in beta, you got access to every job regardless of quests. You just equip an item and you're the class/job. It's going to be no different here. More than likely a moogle mail will have three weapons sent as unlocks.