(03-14-2015, 11:37 PM)Blue Wrote: I'm just not used to expansions being branches of the previous version of the game rather than things of their own.
This is how most games treat expansions, considering the very word "expansion" essentially means to expand on the source. Take Wrath of the Lich King from WoW as an example, if you wanted to play a Death Knight you had to have a character already at lvl 50+ to be able to make a brand new character that was a Death Knight. TERA is another example, if you wanted to play a Reaper you needed to have a character at around lvl 50 (I don't remember the exact level) to unlock the option to make a new character as a Reaper.
With FFXIV it's not that much different, and for all we know the NPCs to unlock the new Jobs are not located in Ishgard, they haven't released any details on this so far so as far as we know they may just have a requirement like "must have at least one class at lvl 30 to unlock any of the new Jobs" and the NPCs are located in Dragonhead or something.
(03-14-2015, 11:49 PM)Sastra Wrote: I get the game is alt hostile but geeeez. That's jut OTT.
Not only is the game fairly alt hostile, it's also not very accommodating when it comes to RPers, which considering there is no official RP server or community is understandable to a degree. They build things from a design perspective, not in a way that makes things easily accessible and convenient for RPers.
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