Thank you for making Blue Mage unique!

[WellFooled]

Yes, they are self-imposed, and I'm all for those restrictions being broken down, but at the same time I recognise that they can't just upend the entire game overnight. Which is why they have chosen to implement Blue Mage in the way that they have.

Honestly it's a good compromise, and although doubtful perfect (I'll give my feedback once I've actually played it), it does have a lot of potential going forward, and if it proves successful enough (and the community is mature and responsible enough to handle it), who knows, maybe someday they do allow 'non-standard' jobs in to Duty Roulette / current tier Raids*.

That's not what the 'delete Limited Jobs' crowd wants though, they want their 'Blue Mage' (and all future jobs) Raid ready on day 1 'like all the other jobs'...they can't just throw a non-standard job out there and expect anything but chaos.

And yes, there are also duties, but Blue Mage isn’t excluded from duties, only auto matched duties, which you could argue is too limiting, but this is an entirely new type of job for FFXIV, and when you consider that a disturbing number of players can’t even handle the likes of low-level BLM properly can you really blame them for being cautious?

*We don't actually know if Blue Mage will forever be excluded from current tier content (which is an understandable concern), only that Blue Mage starts limited to level 50 and will have its level cap increased independent of the normal level cap, the rest is speculation based on (an admittedly bad) example of balance concerns from Yoshi P.

It sounds to me like you're holding onto a hope that Blue Mage is in a live beta and will slowly become a fully fledged job over time. However that isn't how Square has presented the job. In their official statements they've described it as "Not suited for parties" "Designed for Solo Play" and unable to enter content such as PvP, any matchmaking, any roulette, or even deep dungeon and they gave no indication any of that will ever change.

If Blue Mage was simply in beta, with the intent of being slowly integrated into the pantheon of jobs available and we were told as much then I don't think there would be a "delete limited jobs" crowd at all. We'd all be for it. A beta period is worth having fascinating jobs in the game, but that isn't what this is. What this is, is one of our favorite jobs being added to the game as something that both is and isn't a job in the game, half a job with no use in most of the regular content that we enjoy in this game, with absolutely no hope for anything otherwise being offered by the developers.