Quote Originally Posted by Malakhim View Post
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True enough, I will admit that it is a pretty weak argument, but my major point is I would rather the FF lore to be built up based on the more popular/well known jobs before the less known (time mage as an example). As I said, by all means if they do it, and they do it well - good on them. I welcome it. One of the biggest complaint when 1.0 was released was that the game didn't feel like "Final Fantasy", and I feel the job selection had a lot to do with that.

As for Corsair - the "pirate" job that was portrayed in the XI lore isn't as common no, however the musketeer / single handed gun job was. I say "Corsair" in previous posts because people know what I am talking about.. however a couple of examples are Vincent and Irvine. The point is when someone asks you about Final Fantasy, those characters are in the list of what you remember. Of course people will disagree as that is the nature of these forums, however a lot of people that are sold on the Final Fantasy title & lore have FF7-13 in their mind.

To risk opening myself up to more rage bashing, the musketeer type of job was more memorable to a lot of people then the Time Mage, which appeared in hmm FF5, FF9 and what was the other one? See I don't even remember where else they appeared.. While the spells may be heavily weighted on FF lore, the job isn't an iconic figure, like many others that are not yet in the game.

I am surprised no one has mentioned Demi as a spell by the way... That definitely would be a time mage based spell wouldn't it?