Fighting Desperately...

[Sasagawa]

I feel like people whining about this shit are just mad they can't waste 4 years grinding to be a unique snowflake in a video game.

Bunto I respect your opinion but I wasn't whining just stating my own feelings at no point have I said I dislike FFXIV just that I feel the Class/Job system feels cheap.

Ultimately it comes down to play styles

I want to be engrossed in a game and feel as though I can be the best PLD WAR or whatever that I can be through hard work and time spent learning to play the job to the best of its abilities and that for someone to catch up to my level they would equally have to spend time immersing themselves with the job, much like how if ou play BF3 you get owned at first but over time you keep on improving in skills knowing what to look for and how to play the different classes within a squad. Essentially FFXI gave this team cohesion throughout the game not just in a few unique end game scenarios and it actively encouraged you to work as a team at all times putting the multi-player into MMOS.

FFXIV does this at very unique areas usually dungeons or raids (hate that word), but to be honest it is not quite on the same level. I think the most fun fights I have had in FFXIV have been Moogle and Ifrit. Some people will chalk this up to lack of content but tbh if you ever played ffxi the rush of being in a great party set up while leveling and chaining up to 6/7 was an amazing rush. you just don't really get that at the minute on FFXIV

In addition

The level milestones the anticipation of getting to 30 o unlock your first job then further to 41 to get your AF weapon then to 50 to do your limit break. all fantastic goals to aim for, again something FFXIV doesnt really have at the moment. my hope is that post 50 it becomes very hard to level and we see people have to dedicate time to reaching 99 WAR or THM. but we will have to wait and see .