Quote Originally Posted by Naunet View Post
Hello, Lord of the Rings Online.
Quote Originally Posted by Miste View Post
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.
Where did I say "all MMOs"?

Just because some other games do certain things does not mean this game should always follow suit. FFXIV is not Lord of the Rings Online or vice versa. Each of them follow their own original lore from their own series.

Besides it appears LotR online has a different kind of restrictive aspect since some of the classes are locked to certain races. So instead of limiting glamour to have some restrictions they limited what races can be what classes (highly likely that they have these restrictions due to their iconic source material/lore). So again you can't use "well LotR did it so we should do what they do" as some sort of argument in favour of what you personally want. They still have restrictions just like FFXIV; it just happens to be different ones. LotR follows its own lore which creates some restrictions just as FFXIV follows its own lore which creates some restrictions.

Lore is a perfectly valid reason for keeping job specific gear locked to those jobs.