Abolish classes altogether.

[Sinistradian]

I happen to agree with the OP here. There was nothing wrong with the way the jobs were designed and set up in FFXI and there should be no need to change them. Why? Because thats what Final Fantasy is all about. Why developers feel they need to reinvent the wheel is beyond me. I would have been fine with a new graphical upgrade, tweaked UI, tweaked questing system, FFXI when they desogned this game. There is no reason why the dev's can't give us more "Skill" points to equip more things to our bars. And theres something else...why jump on the Wow bandwagon and implement bars in the first place? What is wrong with the old menu based system that has been in...wait for it...every Final Fantasy to date but this one?

[BiggsWedge]

I happen to agree with the OP here. There was nothing wrong with the way the jobs were designed and set up in FFXI and there should be no need to change them. Why? Because thats what Final Fantasy is all about. Why developers feel they need to reinvent the wheel is beyond me. I would have been fine with a new graphical upgrade, tweaked UI, tweaked questing system, FFXI when they desogned this game. There is no reason why the dev's can't give us more "Skill" points to equip more things to our bars. And theres something else...why jump on the Wow bandwagon and implement bars in the first place? What is wrong with the old menu based system that has been in...wait for it...every Final Fantasy to date but this one?

Are you serious? I love when people show their ignorance in public.

First off; how is having an action bar jumping on the Wow-bandwagon? I'm as anti-Wow as the next guy but come on! You do realize that FFXI was one of the only mmorpg's not to have an action bar, don't you?

I agree that every Final Fantasy game has had a drop down battle menu.... BUT... all but one of them were single player only (not counting the crystal chronicles fiasco) and you were given time to figure out a battle strategy... or even pause the game and walk away. Could you pause FFXI? I don't think so.

You think you know what Final Fantasy is all about, huh? I'm sorry it's beyond you that the developers keep reinventing the wheel. Obviously you haven't played many titles from the series so I'll fill you in: EVERY FINAL FANTASY IS UNIQUE. Look back at past Final Fantasy titles. Are any of them using the same world, using the same characters or fighting the same antagonist in an ever-continuing over played story? No, if that was the case, they wouldn't have made over a dozen titles. Of course sequels are an exception to what I just said but in no way is FFXIV a sequel to FFXI. I'm sorry, did you think you were playing FFXI2?

I'm sick of everyone complaining about a game that is still in BETA. Enjoy it while it's F2P. FYI, the devs are extremely over worked and are stressed out trying to make a quality product for everyone. Yoshida works 18 hours days and gets maybe 3 hours of sleep each night. He is doing an amazing job making up for Tanaka's mistakes so just give them a break and stop whining and complaining.

A wise man once said to me: You can pave the roads in gold and people will say "Why didn't you pave it in platinum?" so you scrape off all the gold and repave the roads in platinum and a multitude more will come and say "I liked the roads better in gold."

If you want a graphically enhanced clone of FFXI then I suggest to you: Don't hold your breath or better yet; just quit, we don't need your kind.