Quote Originally Posted by Ametrine View Post
This is simply not correct.

The three jobs all utilize the setting of Ishgard and bolster the lore of the city and it's surrounding zones. Removing the Ishgard barrier would require a huge amount of rewriting.
Currently doing the AST story now... you're not even learning Ishgardian astrology. So far nothing would need to be changed save the location of the quest giver, who we could have easily met part-way to his intended meeting with the Sharlayan astrologian. DRK story is just doing edgy things to get back at snobbish knights - not a story intrinsically tied to Ishgard and that could have just as easily taken place in the area immediately surrounded the city. Machinists could have opened a shop in one of the Ishgardian towns in Coerthas. There's pretty much nothing about the stories that necessitate being placed in Ishgard proper.

As for what people were expecting - we were expecting what pretty much ALL other MMOs do with classes.