Quote Originally Posted by Oscillate_Wildly View Post
AF is one thing, crafted gear is another. Not to mention Conjurer does not equal black mage or white mage. That's jobs. As we don't have jobs yet, this whole class = colour nonsense is bunk. Particularly as that's not exactly how FF games have been going in the past few years anyway.
Saying "class = colour nonsense is bunk" is your opinion.

Let me point out:
1) Color defining classes / jobs / roles has a well established tradition in the Final Fantasy universe
2) There were many requests for classes to be more well defined

I don't think it is too difficult to put these two things together to see where the dev team got this idea from.