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Ok so at this point we all know that the job system us completely different in XIV then it was in XI. We already know that alot of the jobs are now named something completely different(in my opinion they sound more generic and westernized) And I really don't like this.

At one point Square said the reason all the races were the same in XIV was because they wanted players who were familier with XI to be able to jump right in and be at home. However in my mind jobs being the same and what not is FAR FAR more critical to making a FFXI player feel at home in the new game then the races being the same. Yet they are changing it all. We have so far gotten what seems to be confirmation that certain jobs may not even appear in the game in any real way. Like samurai for example.

Also changing the jobs leads to another confusing issue. Spell and ability names. Will those things be the same as in XI? or will players have to learn everything all over again? If they are the same why bother change the names of the jobs that go with them? Isn't that just unneeded confusion?

I mean i don't know about you but I personally if I do play the game I won't be calling Pugilist that. I will be calling it Monk because lets face it. Its the same exact thing and it has a completely unnecessary name change.

So thoughts? Am I the only one annoyed by all this? I mean the rest of the game has me incredibly interested but this pointless changes are really annoying me.