Quote Originally Posted by Reiryuu View Post
To the three people above me:

1) Did people cry foul when FFXI released Puppetmaster? Nope, a lot of people loved the new job. This is a Final Fantasy game. It can freaking make new jobs for the Final Fantasy franchise

2) Again. This game doesn't have hybrids, but they could have just as easily made the hybrid Dancer into a full healer that used melee or ranged physical damage as its primary way of generating resource to heal or whatever they wanted to do with it. You don't need to make healers only casters. Other MMOs have had success with melee and physical ranged healers. Do they still have some spell casting? Sure, but they play much differently than a caster healer and that's kind of the point-- different play style.

3) I have played FFXI thank you very much and I know how the dancer worked. Again, there is absolutely no reason the dev team could not have turned the concept of the dancer in FFXI into a full healer in this game. What dancer was in FFXI or any other game has no bearing on what the devs can make it in this game. It's Yoshida's game. He can envision the jobs as anything he damn well pleases. People cried when he made DRK a tank. I think it is perfectly fine to make it a tank. Other people did not. And you know what, that's OK. Dancer being a RDPS is OK. Could it have been a healer, though? Yes, yes it could have. You can spout "but look at our pretty colors" all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that the dev team has the ability to make the call as to which color to paint any new job in.
I never played XI so I wouldn't know what people were and were not outraged over, but for this game it seems like they're trying to keep everything within the realm of existing games in the franchise. Why is this so important to you that you have to be so defensive about it?