Quote Originally Posted by elreed View Post
i would like to play a role in every company like the ranking we had in FF XI with every city so if you get to the top of ranking with one company you can have the option to rank up in others and have a lot of advantage in each city like lower prices, etc. and be able to do a lot of missions knowing the story of each company at full.

2cents.
I imagine it will be more like Campaign from FFXI. You pick your Company and then if you want to switch you can but might lose one of your Company ranks and cost some credits.