Quote Originally Posted by Naunet View Post
I will never see how folk can think that limiting options leads to diversity - it just makes groups of people look the same.
Because not everyone is you and shares all of your opinions? I also never mentioned diversity as a reason for my post or my reasons for drawing the line...you picked out the last thing I said without paying attention to the rest of my post.

Some people like having the iconic FF series gear linked to the jobs and job specific gear in general because they love the Final Fantasy series and they love their favourite job and feel like the gear compounds the job's identity and they enjoy that aspect. I love the WHM Orison set so much I almost wish I could use it on any healer but I just don't think that needs to happen because it wasn't made for anything but WHM.

I said the line needs to be drawn somewhere in order to make a compromise to cater to both sides. Open up the other gear, but keep the job specific gear locked to the job still. That way if people want more choices they have a lot more, and people who like to have some gear specific to jobs can keep those (FYI most of the gear in the game is not job specific).

It's called a compromise for a reason; if you ignore one side of it it just becomes selfishness. Other MMOs are not FFXIV so comparing their communities is a waste of time. Most other MMOs are not linked to a iconic series that has been around since 1987 and has certain aspects that make it part of the FF series.