Quote Originally Posted by Unaki View Post
Classes only exist because they tried a new thing in 1.0 and uh...no one liked it. They wanted the old stuff. Besides, Yoshi P already said in a recent live letter that they won't be doing anymore Class/Job stuff and are looking into ways to removes the classes themselves.
I'm not sure you are qualified to say what other people wanted or did not want from FFXIV 1.0. From my personal experience, the concepts employed by the classes were interesting, but the rest of the game just sucked. The classes were just unrefined. It was released in alpha state.