Quote Originally Posted by blowfin View Post
It's totally about that, just about everything (non balance related) that people complain about regarding jobs is borne out of some notion they got from previous FF titles.

Examples:
- RDM melee crowd in XI
- SMN's complaining about their Egi's in XIV
- People who want XIV DRG's to have wyvern pets

People seem to think "Oh I LOVED Job X in FFII, it should be exactly the same as that in every FF game for eternity.".
People complain about egis because they're fucking stupid. They are boring and don't give summoner the feel of actually summoning anything worth while.

Also, people use ffxi more often than other titles because it was an mmo and mmos are harder to create balanced ideas for. It was tried and tested and found to work in that environment so it is more likely to function as intended without destroying the original feel of it.