Quote Originally Posted by Aidorouge View Post
I was going to say, by OP's own logic, the only jobs we should have now are GNB, MCH, and SGE because every other job is "outdated and impractical" if technology was really that sweeping and all encompassing within weeks of being introduced.

Hell, we shouldn't even have medieval settings at all by this point, everything should be Garlean magitek MINIMUM because there's just that much of it lying around to "advance" the rest of the known world (and they're not in any position to stop us from taking it from them).

That said, I don't find the mix of fantasy and sci-fi jarring as a whole, given it's nothing new for Final Fantasy, but I can see how it might stick out awkwardly when the Final Fantasy game in question is a "living world" and not a one and done storyline like the rest of them, and where we just assume great lengths of time have happened between expansions but in actuality the game doesn't even act like a year has passed, which also creates the excuse for WHY technology hasn't suddenly super-advanced the whole world because as far as the narrative is concerned the world hasn't been exposed to it for very long.

As far as we know, we discovered Alexandria just a month after we walked into our first Allag ruin, hardly time to study it all much less re-create it and spread it to all our neighbors.
Even if you ignore Alexandria and electrope specifically, I find the mix of classical fantasy and modern/sci-fi in FFXIV a bit off. The fact that you can have a knight in a suit of armour and a catgirl in streetwear standing next to each other makes the game feel pretty aesthetically inconsistent.

In the older FF games, they would always blend fantasy and sci-fi a bit more consistently throughout the world. Some games leaned much more heavily into sci-fi and wouldn't have much in the way of fantasy beyond magic and swords, others were much more traditional fantasy and the sci-fi elements would be more steampunky.

It definitely feels like the devs have been leaning more and more heavily into the IMVU modbeast aesthetic since Shb and feels out of place to me.