Balance, Homogenisation and Encounter Design: The Problem.

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I meant there's no point in there being multiple jobs of the same role in the game. If the jobs are "Tank", "Healer", "Caster", "Melee dps", and "Physical ranged dps" then no one needs to level multiple jobs to be able to participate in top content either. And if the differences between the jobs are only cosmetic, then they may as well condense it down to that level.

I know what you meant, but some people choose a job simply for the aesthetics, so there is always a point to have multiple jobs even within the same role, not to mention with different roles.

The point i was aiming to make is many people play games especially MMO's to play with other people and do things together with there friends..

Of course not everything has to be able to include everyone but at the same time there should always be options that allow everyone to be included.

when 3 - 4 of you aredoing the same msq quests atthe same time why not be allowed to do them together. a lot of people would find it much more fun sharing the experience with friends.. where as doing it alone at the same time other people are doingiot alone just isnt the same..

This is why people have wanted FC content since the dawen of time (or time as far as ARR is concerend)

I get that, but it's one thing to want the game to accommodate people doing more things together, which I would support, and another to say the game is anti-social because it doesn't have more of those accommodations, which I would disagree.