Quote Originally Posted by Felis View Post
During 1.0 before jobs came ingame the cross-class skills were more open (Every skill except the ones you bought in the guilds for guildmarks. And up to 10 skills at level 50) and you could customizate your character how you wanted. Equip this skill from this class and that skill from this class and your character would be like a RDM.
People complained about it because as soon everyone would have their character completed (all classes at level 50) everyone would be the same again with just different weapons.
And so the devs created the job system for specializations.


No
The community has spoken


http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...16083b634f7678
The whole article is REALLY enlightening on a NUMBER of levels. I especially like the general "Meh-ness" displayed for PvP.