Quote Originally Posted by Azurymber View Post
Originally it had the ability to play as crafting or gathering as a main. And would have had the company system (enhanced linkshells/guilds), the ability to craft in groups, etc. But since Yoshi-P took over many of the creative things that would have made the game stand on its own have been removed.
You say this like it's a bad thing. The company system isn't gone, and nor has the craft-in-groups idea been thrown out. Getting rid of support for crafting and gathering classes as viable mains was also a ridiculously good move. The idea isn't bad on paper, but to make it work almost everything else in the game would have had to have been scrapped in favor of a more EVE-esque style of game enviornment, which I don't think is what people normally want when they think of a Final Fantasy game, and certainly wouldn't have been anything resembling the original or current version of the game.