Quote Originally Posted by JunseiKei View Post

A6. BLU could exist as a normal job, but I do understand Yoshida's worry about the acquisition of spells (learning it through monsters and not just given) and being excluded from parties because you don't have certain ones. That's a legitimate concern and players are absolutely kidding themselves if they think it's not. Some people would argue the identity of BLU is learning spells through monsters and not just given to you through job quests while others are perfectly fine with that method. Others take it a set fuyrther and compare it to XI, though it has many features that simply do not exist in XIV and is akin to comparing apples and oranges. Full job, limited job, it doesn't matter, there'd probably be just as much complaints because BLU ultimately wouldn't be something X person imagined it to be (looking at you SMN).
just want to agree here with the last part. people compare to ffxiv blue, but an ffxiv blue would also not be allowed here at all. it straddled too many roles, and also would have the same issue with spell learning and the duty finder. Ffxiv also was fine with weird jobs that didnt fit one particular role, or multiple roles, like bst, pup, blu, nin, dnc. And its subjob system allowed for a lot of diversity. Basically ffxi is pretty radically different, and many job combos could never be allowed in the current ffxiv framework.