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At least compared to modern XIV, quite a lot? For example, 3/4 healers play very similarly, with their damage “rotations” being a single-target cast and an instant DoT. (This wouldn’t be such an issue if dealing damage wasn’t the majority of what healers spend their time doing with a competent party.)

There is no hard support role, some damage jobs just trade a little in raw damage for some utility. For example, while XIV’s Bard also buffs one’s party, it’s nowhere on the same scale.

It’s not necessarily the individual job diversities that I like most about XI, but the subjob system and being able to access rather specific builds as a result.

To be clear, XIV is still fun and has a lot of cool things about it, but this is one area that particularly peeves me.

Personally I’m trying to work out what job I want to take to 99. One of the things that impressed me most about XI was the job diversity, especially compared to the recent homogenisation in XIV, but it’s clearly a double-edged sword at times.

I’d love to know if this is a product of FFXI seeing an upsurge of new players, and SE wants them to maintain their subscriptions, or if this is an attempt by SE to encourage more players to pick it up in the first place.

Don’t have any hard numbers, but I believe I’ve seen a not-insignificant number of FF fans taking in interest in playing XI ‘for the story’ of late.

Christian Selig’s receipts (Apollo’s dev) really underlined just how meaningless their words are, but the way they use copypasted bs at every turn makes it impossible to ignore.

Hell, this all started with them saying they respected moderators’ right to protest, including going private. Utter nonsense.