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

[Tupsi]

I find it funny when FFXI players in here mention they jumped to here because Abyssea and SoA ruined everything then find disappointment that this game isn't what they wanted either and say it needs to be FFXI. I love FFXI as much as the next person, but why are you trying to completely change FFXIV into something it is not?

To be fair XIV 1.x was never a WoW clone and they turned it into one rather than "fixing it", so it's long past the: "XIV isn't x stop blah blah blah" arguments people crop up with. And yes, Yoshida did make it VERY VERY clear his goal was to make ARR basically WoW for Japan.

[Velhart]

To be fair XIV 1.x was never a WoW clone and they turned it into one rather than "fixing it", so it's long past the: "XIV isn't x stop blah blah blah" arguments people crop up with. And yes, Yoshida did make it VERY VERY clear his goal was to make ARR basically WoW for Japan.

I love Yoshi-P's thinking.

Even if there were discrepancies in wait time for you (I don't doubt there were, it just wasn't the case for me), in the end, wouldn't you say it was worth it for the differences between the jobs?

Absolutely not, every job in the game should be just as desired as the next. ARR accomplished within one year that FFXI hasn't in twelve. Determined by the players ability to play the job and gear requirements. Not just because of the job itself. Its that thinking is why FFXI is such an unbalanced mess with it's jobs.