E3 Letter from the Producer Live recap + artwork + Rogue/Ninja video

[Anapingofness]

T_T Sadly....thf isn't a job. I am really bummed that it is only the starting class.

[Fadigre]

T_T Sadly....thf isn't a job. I am really bummed that it is only the starting class.

This person understands it! Yoshida-san broke my heart today.
Why have you abandoned me, Senpai?

How can anybody ever think that Ninja looks funner than Rogue

Rogues and Ninjas are of a totally different thematic!
BETRAAAAYAL

Somebody promise me Rogue will somehow be viable end-game

[Abriael]

Well Thief wasn't an advanced job on FFXI too.

[lololink]

Well Thief wasn't an advanced job on FFXI too.

Maybe there will be a thief job for the rogue class, who knows ?.

[Abriael]

Maybe there will be a thief job for the rogue class, who knows ?.

From how Yoshida put it, it doubt it. It seems they avoided thief on purpose because it would not fit the story.

[Felis]

From how Yoshida put it, it doubt it. It seems they avoided thief on purpose because it would not fit the story.

It don't fit the stoy to have a thief guild in a city. Jobs don't have guilds in the first place. So it is still possible to get thief as a job in the future. Except if Rogue get the steal skill.

[Asael]

It seems they avoided thief on purpose because it would not fit the story.

The thing is in the main story Minfilia stated that Thancred was involved in shady business and less than noble practices when they first came upon him. Yugiri has similar origins of the art form that Thancred uses, but with ultimately different philosophies driving it. It sounds to me like Thancred is a Thief path while Yugiri is a Ninja path with Rogue being the common basis for both paths. So yeah I have no clue as to how Yoshi-P thinks it wouldn't fit into the story.

[Mysteran]

T_T Sadly....thf isn't a job. I am really bummed that it is only the starting class.

I'm disappointed by the lack of Thief as well. Even by another name, I see Thief as a different concept than Ninja and won't get nearly as much fun playing Ninja as I would a Thief.

I don't really agree with their reasoning for not having Thief either. Thief may have had its roots in petty crime or such but... really? No city would host a guildhouse? I don't see Limsa being above doing so. And I'd see them maybe utilizing them as couriers, spies, special ops, things along those lines. The dirty jobs that need to be done but not publicly.

I'm not saying rename Rogue to Thief either. I'd much prefer Thief be a Job with its own special abilities going forward. Maybe I can hope for it in the expansion...

[jomoru]

I'm not saying rename Rogue to Thief either. I'd much prefer Thief be a Job with its own special abilities going forward. Maybe I can hope for it in the expansion...

But then Ninja couldn't be dps and that's clearly more important than having a thief job.

[LoLo]

I'm disappointed by the lack of Thief as well. Even by another name, I see Thief as a different concept than Ninja and won't get nearly as much fun playing Ninja as I would a Thief.

I don't really agree with their reasoning for not having Thief either. Thief may have had its roots in petty crime or such but... really? No city would host a guildhouse? I don't see Limsa being above doing so. And I'd see them maybe utilizing them as couriers, spies, special ops, things along those lines. The dirty jobs that need to be done but not publicly.

I'm not saying rename Rogue to Thief either. I'd much prefer Thief be a Job with its own special abilities going forward. Maybe I can hope for it in the expansion...

I agree, I mean... aren't Pirates just Thieves on a boat? lol