instead of "minigames" could simply call it "side content"
The main content (PvE / PvE HL) and side content (deep dongeons, eureka, triple triad etc etc)
Getting 2 totally different set of skills (and different gameplay) on 1 job already exists on FFXIV, nothing new. in fact, the BLU would end to getting 3. It would be nothing new on FFXIV to get specific skills depending on where you are. . .
Also, what the matter with what you point.
If the blu get "dumpdown" skills for raid content, but his "fully" skills for Open World and the carnival content, all would be ok. We would have the "real" Blue mage, and a blue mage that fit in raid content.
in this case, the BLU would be far better handle in FFXIV than other jobs (because ALL jobs get cut from part, sometime great part of what they really are. i love the DRK selfmutilate personnally... ... but ok, not in FFXIV i understand... )
this topic list what 9 jobs in FFXIV lost. And not "small things" it is what make their identity in other FF... and lost it to fit FFXIV playstyle.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ted-Job-System