Blitzballer?

[Khryseis_Astra]

Every example you’re bringing up makes sense retroactively, which is the whole point of making something new that comes up out of nothing fit into an existing world and I don’t see why they wouldn’t do that with a hypothetical Blitzballer job unless they were to pull another Pictomancer again.

We already know that blitzball as a mini-game had made it to the developer’s table before as something they’ve considered adding so they might already have had a plan on how it fits for years. By now we know that the reasons we didn’t get it were gameplay related and not lore related but that doesn’t exclude the possibility of getting a Wakka-based class.

For me it’s not the lore or even the weapon… they can retcon lore and the idea of a ball as a weapon sounds fun. It’s just that there is nothing in the game up til this point that I can remember showing anyone even having any kind of ball! lol Let alone the official game of Blitzball. Using PCT as an example, maybe we didn’t know about magic painting, although not much of a stretch when we have magic ink, but we did know painting itself was a thing.

I play every job… make a job using a ball and make it fun, and I’ll probably enjoy it. But if it’s just that, a generic job with a ball, and there’s no reference to Blitzball at all, and/or no accompanying game mode for context, I think a lot of people who wanted it so badly would be disappointed. That and the devs know, or should, that if they just put the job in the game, they’re going to be hounded for some playable game of Blitzball in some form or another. lol

[MikkoAkure]

It’s just that there is nothing in the game up til this point that I can remember showing anyone even having any kind of ball!

Monster Toss.

Which would imply that some other basketball-like game exists on Eitherys.

Hildebrand quests also make volleyball and baseball references but considering the context I’m not sure if that counts.

[Reginald_Cain]

Why not just do jongleur at this point? Blitzball would be a more boring version of the same thing. let em juggle balls, bombs and fat cats!
STOP IT YOU! STOP IT YOU NINNY! STOP BEING AFRAID OF CLOWNS!

[CidHeiral]

It's silly to get hung up on a lack of prior references to any potential addition to the game in a genre notorious for pulling entire continents out of its ass and hand waving it away after the fact. They'll add whatever they think would be fun to add and justify it however they need to.

[schway]

Cosigned! BZB