Late to the BLU Party

[PatronasCharm]

SE making BLU as their first "Limited" Job is a good risk as it's a popular job, not sure if it's as popular and wanted as DNC, but regardless, it's a good risk. I'm sure SE has a plan too, if it flops. There's plenty of great ideas roaming about the forums of ways it could potentially be kept as is, but still be able to not be "Limited." I for one am excited as it's been a job I've been wanting to play for a good while; just like them introducing RDM for Stormblood brought me, a customer and now vested subscriber, on-board with FFXIV and I even bought the expansions JUST to play RDM, even if it wasn't completely the way I pictured it.

Blue Mage will do so too; and since it wont even require any of the Expansions to play its content, it might bring potential customers to stroll on in and maybe be part of our community.

So I for one am on-board, because even if it fails in the eyes of the hardcore, it will bring new people into the community and in hopes, perhaps snag them by a hook, and reel them in for what's to come in Shadowbringers.

And come on! It's Blue Mage! Let's see where SE goes with it

[jon041065]

SE making BLU as their first "Limited" Job is a good risk as it's a popular job, not sure if it's as popular and wanted as DNC, but regardless, it's a good risk. I'm sure SE has a plan too, if it flops. There's plenty of great ideas roaming about the forums of ways it could potentially be kept as is, but still be able to not be "Limited." I for one am excited as it's been a job I've been wanting to play for a good while; just like them introducing RDM for Stormblood brought me, a customer and now vested subscriber, on-board with FFXIV and I even bought the expansions JUST to play RDM, even if it wasn't completely the way I pictured it.

Blue Mage will do so too; and since it wont even require any of the Expansions to play its content, it might bring potential customers to stroll on in and maybe be part of our community.

So I for one am on-board, because even if it fails in the eyes of the hardcore, it will bring new people into the community and in hopes, perhaps snag them by a hook, and reel them in for what's to come in Shadowbringers.

And come on! It's Blue Mage! Let's see where SE goes with it

It is not a good risk at all unless they have a backup plan for it as you said but then why haven't they released a statement to say that yet? If they had used onion knigh/freelancer/unique XIV job to test content like this there would be much more positive feedback.

Here's a post where someone explained why people on our side are worried about the future of the game.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...72#post4831672

We see it as either blue mage was wasted on content that will fail or SE is starting down a path that could ruin the game if they keep going down it. This isn't speculation as a lot of us have seen WoW go down the path of too much splitting of content.

Blue mage will bring in some new players and entice some to return but it will have the opposite effect to others. It could have been a major selling point IF it was a full job with fun side content.

"And come on! It's Blue Mage! Let's see where SE goes with it "
No thanks. It's a blue mage mini game. Not really a blue mage combat job.