Character lock outs is counterintuitive of the one character all class idea

[Mcshiggs]

Wow such an original idea, I wonder why no one else has thought of this yet.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...r-coil-like-CT
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-based-on-Job
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-small-request
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-COIL-for-alts
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...k-per-class%21

The reason is simple, they are throttling content, all mmo's do it to some point. If you want to raid more than once a week, put in the work level multiple characters like you have to in other games. You can do every job on one character in this game, but they don't just give you everything, you have to make decisions, gear jobs one at a time, mix end game gear between different jobs, and in the future you will see more of the stat allocating coming into play with more jobs and pvp being released, you can allocate points toward summoner and gear summoner to be an UBERsummoner, or you can allocate points toward scholar, while gearing summoner, so you can easily step in to do either job, you won't be the best that class can be, but you will be more that what is needed to be effective given the content we have. People want diversity and uniqueness, you know choices to stand out, well in this game so far these are those choices, they may not be the ones everyone wants, but they are the ones the game is designed around.