Quote Originally Posted by bass9020 View Post
This topic is starting to pop up a lot lately, even in interviews done by Yoshi. We all know the classes go back to 1.0 and are heavily involved in the lore. (more so in 1.0) People keep talking about how they should get rid of the classes and only have jobs, I'm curious why?
Because many XIV players wanted it to be XI-2, the most vocal players in V1 were those demanding the job system from XI and sadly after taking over from Tanaka, Yoshi obliged.

IMO the V1 class system was far superior to the straight-jacket of the XI job/subjob system that the V2 job system basically copies. Sadly though the player basein most MMOs are hugely conservative and awlays demand what they're used to, the V1 multi-class system had huge potential that sadly was squandered pandering to the conservative views.