Game is ruined (FFXIV 2.0)

[Rhianu]

Final Fantasy 6/7/8 all had this with summons

6 had each character equip an Esper
7 was Materia
and 8 each character equipped the summons as well

this would be just like that really.

Yeah, but none of those games were FFXI.

You forget that FFXI is the be all, end all of what FINAL FANTASY is, and anything that's different from FFXI isn't FINAL FANTASY...

Didn't sound like it to me... Yoshi has already said that a job is a way to specialize your class, and that a job's level is determined by class level. "Jobs progressing through quests", to me, basically means that to get new abilities and to further enhance/specialize your job, you need to do quests. But to actually level it up, you do the same things you do now to level a class.

I dunno, I guess we'll see. But if Yoshi-P understands the MMO market in its current state (and his actions thus far have demonstrated that he does), he should know that old-school style grinding simply isn't what most people want in a modern MMO.