Quote Originally Posted by arcanedude34 View Post
there's NO semblance of balance between jobs (who the hell is ever going to use all or even half the jobs in the game when so many are just terrible?)
I think WK talked about all of these points in quite a bit of depth, but I feel the need to say something about this one that he didn't. Even if we assume you're correct that half the jobs are terrible (they're not though. Everything has it's useful skills and abilities, but for the sake of argument we'll run with it) it doesn't mean the game is unbalanced. If there were one or two strategic options that so completely dominated the others that you'd have to be an idiot to use anything else then it would be unbalanced. But given how many classes are very useful and could easily be used on their own in multiple combinations to beat any fight in the game, the game isn't unbalanced. It would be like saying a fighting game is unbalanced because there are one or two characters out of twenty that will never win a tournament ever. If you still have eighteen well balanced characters that stand a decent chance in any given fight then you're doing pretty well.

Some useless options don't unbalance a game. One or two options that are far and away the best choices does make an unbalanced game though.