My take on what can be changed for FFXIV

[DrWho2010]

You realizes that reduces the time worth playing, and therefore increases the likelihood of players unsubbing if problems arise with the main they've been, in effect, locked into for that tier, or after completing their BiS on that main? Compare that to having the ability, given the time and willingness, to actually multi-job competitively.

Compare that, moreover, to crafted gear, the sole time investment of which is... walking to the market board, all to render a tier. Rather than making catch-up through one's efforts available or easier... it just removes any such effort from the equation entirely. All to prop up that a game which, as a selling point, allows for all jobs/classes on one character actually makes players that much less able to maintain multiple jobs/classes.

The amount of people I actively know that actually say that they want to multi-job play AND can do it competitively is very small. The ones that complain that they can't do it via crafted gear means they're not skilled enough to play at that kind of level of gameplay. And if they made the "mistake" of wanting to switch mains, well that's just a matter of circumstance, and well... shitty bits to them. That was their choice, intended or not.

Give people the means to gear faster and they will leave faster. They will NOT stick around to multi job competitively.