Quote Originally Posted by Mezlabor View Post
Isn't that exactly what WoW did when they added death knight? you couldn't just make one unless you already had a character at 60
WoW, by the end of BC, was far beyond the point where they needed new players; and in fact the slight bump WotLK provided proved to be the game's peak population before the start of its present slow decline.

FFXIV on the other hand is in a position where it should really be aggressively trying to make the user experience for entirely new players as great and ensnaring as possible. Advertising three new jobs and then completely forbidding new players from trying out the cool knight class they saw on the box is not a good way to make a strong first impression.