Why can't we have jobs with this level of depth and customization in FFXIV?

[Gilthas]

XI was designed for strategy in a slower paced game during earlier times.

People keep saying stuff like this but what exactly made FFXI more strategic than how FFXIV is? Seriously? People keep really overrating the depth and complexity of FFXI's battle system when most of it was far simpler than what we have now in FFXIV.

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I made my original post before you wrote all of that, and interestingly, it still applies. "People keep really overrating the depth and complexity of FFXI's battle system when most of it was far simpler than what we have now in FFXIV." It's kind of ridiculous that you argue that the only thing you need in FFXIV is to memorize the combat, but FFXI "required significant knowledge of your job" (as if that wasn't needed in FFXIV) "and your encounters" (so memorize them). What a load of bull.