New Jobs Gated Behind Completion of 2.0 Story?

[LalaRu]

... it strikes me as an odd decision considering any new players drawn by the expansion will be locked out from playing any of these jobs until they level a different job to 50 ...

I don't know what part of "expansion" word, did you missed.

Of course you have to level to 50, if you want play all the new maps that are, not surprisingly, leveled 50+.

What is odd, is get an expansion and want play that as it is a whole new thing. New players? They have to buy the game and the expansion, if they want the whole thing.

Then, Final Fantasy is a game that relies on a story by concept, definition, and the developer very choice: if you want trash it all and just play new content, FPS games are better suited at that scope.

[FoxyAreku]

I'm still at a loss as to why people think gating CLASSES behind a story that will take over a month (most likely) to complete is a good thing.

Gate anything else, you can even make the new classes take level 30 to unlock, that's FINE, but having to do the majority of the game just to start playing a machinist/astrologian/dark knight? Ridiculous.

[Duuude007]

I'm still at a loss as to why people think gating CLASSES behind a story that will take over a month (most likely) to complete is a good thing.

Gate anything else, you can even make the new classes take level 30 to unlock, that's FINE, but having to do the majority of the game just to start playing a machinist/astrologian/dark knight? Ridiculous.

Except that it isn't classes.

[Aeyis]

I'm still at a loss as to why people think gating CLASSES behind a story that will take over a month (most likely) to complete is a good thing.

Gate anything else, you can even make the new classes take level 30 to unlock, that's FINE, but having to do the majority of the game just to start playing a machinist/astrologian/dark knight? Ridiculous.

Then dont play the game? Obviously the rest of the game is not interesting enough to stomache unlocking these classes?
Would you also like to have a level 50 or 60 character without having leveled it?

[Zohar_Lahar]

I'm still at a loss as to why people think gating CLASSES behind a story that will take over a month (most likely) to complete is a good thing.

Gate anything else, you can even make the new classes take level 30 to unlock, that's FINE, but having to do the majority of the game just to start playing a machinist/astrologian/dark knight? Ridiculous.

Not that ridiculous if the classes are intended for more advanced players, and not newcomers.

[Chiramu]

What is odd, is get an expansion and want play that as it is a whole new thing. New players? They have to buy the game and the expansion, if they want the whole thing.
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New players don't have to buy Heavesnward straight away, they can play on ARR. They need to purchase Heavensward if they want to be Au Ra however.