Quote Originally Posted by Bixby View Post
I wouldn't discount the added roadblock for RMT, but it may also be something they did for consistency. The SMN job quest doesn't make much sense if you haven't beaten Ifrit:
Beyond making sense, the SMN job quest isn't (and wasn't before this new change) even available until you've beaten Ifrit, nor is the SMN level 35 quest available until you've beaten Titan. (I assume it's the same with Garuda at level 45, but I haven't actually gotten to that one.) The former isn't much of an issue, as the job quest comes 10 levels after the Ifrit fight, but The Navel (Titan fight) is a level 34 quest, and it's easy to get more than one level above where you're at in the story (especially if you spam Brayflox a bunch of times 'cause it's fun and drops cool gear ).

Anyway, as for getting up through Slyph Management to unlock jobs, it's another case of getting through a level 20 story quest by the time you're 30 (or very shortly thereafter). Whether RMT had anything to do with their reasoning or not, it's not a bad idea to have an occasional requirement that you keep up with the story to within ten levels or so of where you're at.