Hi

33 years old French player here. Playing the game for several days only.

As an old Role Playing Game player, starting from table games (not talking about Warhammer), to FF on Famicom, FFXI, and sooo many others, I am very concerned about the differentiation of races and classes.

As it is now, all classes can use any abilities of any other leveled-up class. Worse, there are absolutly no differences between races, should you play a Lalafel, Galka or Hume. In my humble opinion, this is incomprehensible, and i will say it : unacceptable.

Using the own words of Mister Producer Yoshi-P, our characters are adventurers. Well, in any game concepts developped since video-games exist, you adventure the world with your strenght and weakenesses. You choose them, or they are forced to you, but you do always have both. This is the core, the root, of fun and challenge. Leveling 10 totally different classes, just to pick-up a few actions here and there, is not fun nor it is challenging.

The second and last main black point i see to this sytem as it is today is personalization. How are you supposed to personalize your avatar if, when you create your character, it makes no difference at all if you choose Disciple of War or Disciple of Magic ? Hyugorth or Lalafel ? Miqo'te of the Sun or of the Moon ? How are you supposed to identify to it and feel unique ?

Before you start to flame me because i can not understand the inner beauty of this system, i want to add that i didnt have time to read through the 20 Producer's Letters. I wanted to test FFXIV before the end of the F2P period, and your answers here, now, will play an important role in my decision to pay a subscription, or not.

thanks for reading so far