Quote Originally Posted by Awful View Post
You really have to look at the big picture here you're saying that my arguments go against freedom?
Um...To look at "bigger picture" you need to look from various perspectives. I assure you, that's exactly what I do and what you seem to be adamantly against.

Think about it this way. There are two alternatives. They add Blue Mage this way or not at all. These are the only options because THEY are the ones that make this game and THEY decided that. They didn't want to cripple the Blue Mage and make an entirely new job, then slap the title on it.

If they added Blue Mage, they added to what you can do. Now you can do stuff as Blue Mage. Stuff that have not really been accessible before, even, unique to Blue Mage. You cannot do certain things (but content-wise it only applies to new stuff, Deep Dungeons and PvP).
If they did not add Blue Mage, you wouldn't be able to do anything with it (duh!). You'd never get more to do, nor anything unique to do. You could do LESS than you can do, thus they wouldn't give you more freedom.
If they did add Blue Mage and then removed it...yep. That would take away some of your freedom.

No matter how you look at it, if your point of view is from what IS, and not what COULD BE (which is a horrible way to review anything), then this is a positive addition to freedom, not a negative. You never get the freedom that is later limited. Basically, you just GET less freedom than you'd want, but why would they endanger the whole game just to give some players that extra freedom, and do that on the spot? Because you keep ignoring the fact that it is all an experiment that is likely to evolve.