Quote Originally Posted by Sakuraluna View Post
Personally, I would have loved this. I miss those terms being used for the stronger versions of the spells, and as someone who's been a fan of final fantasy since VII, it would have been less confusing... but I think Moonleg is right, and I recall seeing a statement made by either Yoshi P or someone on the dev team a long while back that this was their train of thought; they were expecting players both new to Mmo's as well as to final fantasy games and wanted to keep things less confusing for them.
VII actually used the numbered spell system too. The suffix system didn't start til VIII.