jobs – MMO Fallout

Back in September, Codemasters announced that it would be shuttering its Guildford studio, following the poor performance of Bodycount, the developer’s new first person shooter. Just last week, Electronic Arts announced that their Guildford Studio would be facing redundancy layoffs, or possibly a complete studio closure. On the one hand, EA did state that employees laid off at the studio would be considered for other positions at EA.

Not missing an opportunity to pick up the local talent, Jagex will be holding an event in Guildford to recruit the recently unemployed. The event will take place at the White House Pub on October 25th from 4pm. Last year, Jagex followed a number of other developers in picking up the ex-employees of Realtime Worlds after the studio closed down and APB went offline.

Cherry Blossoms.

“Possible introduction of traditional names such as paladin, monk, white mage, etc.”
-Final Fantasy XIV Lodestone

Final Fantasy XIV features nineteen classes, and for the most part the names are rather straightforward. We know what to expect out of a fisher, botanist, miner, armorer, blacksmith, goldsmith, culinarian, etc. However, from the perspective of someone who has never played Final Fantasy XIV, can you tell me what a Thaumaturge does? A Thaumaturge is a magic class that specializes in damage, incapacitation, and using your own HP to heal your party members. For a regular Final Fantasy player, the Thaumaturge are probably closer to black mages.

There are plans in place to change the job names back to their more classic versions (archer becomes ranger, etc), and the update is welcome, albeit a low priority task. Learning the jobs in Final Fantasy XIV is basically a measure of applying new terms to old concepts, and aside from a few extra minutes of confusion, is not that big of a deal.

As for me? Well I’ll keep spending a lot of my time in Final Fantasy XIV making screenshots to use as header images, like the one you see above.