Thief/Ninja looks to be Inbound

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He has never said classes and jobs would only come with expansions. What he said was they would be added in regular patches.

Yoshi has actually said that they plan on adding classes/jobs as they see fit, whether it be through a patch or an expansion, rather than attaching them only to expansions. I'd be curious to see where exactly you've seen him contradict this.

There was a recent interview (4th question) that implied, at this point in time, it was more likely that it would happen in an expansion. As with everything in this community that meant that this was the gospel truth, until proven otherwise.

I take it back, it was more explicitly stated than I remembered:

Nova Crystallis: With Final Fantasy XI Square Enix has released a lot of full expansion packs and smaller add-ons and now with FFXIV you guys are releasing a lot of new content as free updates. How do you decide when you make that split – when do you start charging for content and how much content is going to be in what you charge for versus what will arrive in free updates?

ARR4Yoshida: In regards to what defines an expansion – if you can imagine the amount of content and material that was released with the relaunch (2.0) – that would be about the size of what we would consider an expansion. There will be a lot of new dungeons added, a lot of deep story – something that adds value to the game’s own staff roll. There are going to be a lot of new fields that will open up as well as the introduction of new classes and jobs. So you can expect it to be pretty big for it to be considered an expansion.

We’re aiming for it to be when people see the information of the expansion coming, they will see it and say “Oh yeah, this is worth paying for.”