New Job System Incoming!!! - But what does this mean??

[AlexiaKidd]

BOOOM!

Let's be realistic please.

Rift has million players so why couldn't FFXIV and from what people say it's just a WoW clone. FFXIV needs something huge that will make those people turned off by it to start looking at it again, I'm not saying the new job system is that thing but it could be part of it and I would really hate for SE to cut corners because they were worried about how the current players would react. If it benefits in the long term I am all for it, lets face it no matter what SE do most of us will still carry on playing. Look at all the fuss over auto attack but I bet most of those people complaining about it will carry on playing anyway.

[Abriael]

Rift has million players so why couldn't FFXIV and from what people say it's just a WoW clone. FFXIV needs something huge that will make those people turned off by it to start looking at it again, I'm not saying the new job system is that thing but it could be part of it and I would really hate for SE to cut corners because they were worried about how the current players would react. If it benefits in the long term I am all for it, lets face it no matter what SE do most of us will still carry on playing. Look at all the fuss over auto attack but I bet most of those people complaining about it will carry on playing anyway.

Let's see how many players RIFT will have in a couple of months, given how wow clones normally collapse in that much time.

If you think that taking away things that people in game acquired will bring back any sizable amount of players, I'm afraid there's a rather big delusion here.
The large majority of gamers, IE the "millions", can't care the less and don't even notice subtle mechanics changes like autoattack and the structure of the class system. What they care about is having something fun and varied to do in the game, which is what is majorly missing in the game and what needs to be added.
Significant injections of content will bring back the numbers (IF that will happen, of course), not subtle systems that for most people are little more than an unnoticeable framework.