Quote Originally Posted by Xairos View Post
I just want to add that as a player who finished the level 30-50 Dark Knight job quests, they pull heavily from what you as a player did throughout all of your 2.0 storyline. To subvert that story is to undermine the whole Job Quests themselves. I cannot speak on Astro and Machinist, but I can imagine that if I were to just jump into the Dark Knight story quests with no previous context of 2.0 storyline then I would be incredibly lost.
This is only true because of the way they wrote the Dark Knight storyline. If they had placed the jobs outside of Ishgard to make them accessable, Dark Knight would have had a different story. Better? Worse? Who knows?

I'm in the camp that the new jobs should NOT have been gated along with the rest of the content. Players should have been free to play through the 2.x Main Scenario with AST, MCN, or DRK, just as they can with any of the base classes. The stories for these classes could well still have an Ishgard flavor to them (like Dragoon!) without depending on your accomplishments in the Main Scenario.

What's done is done, though, and I can only pray that walling off everything behind Main Scenario they way that they did doesn't discourage too many potential new players. Hopefully there will be many more expansions to come - but if future jobs also require completing all past expansions, I don't think it'll be long before even the most fervent defenders of the current status quo will start to wonder whether it was really wise...