Yoshi-P E3 2014 Interview about Ninja/Rogue

[LlenCoram]

Ontopic: It sounds like Musketeer might not even be coming for 2.4.

I'm honestly starting to wonder if we'll ever get it at all. The recent aethernet change from Coral Tower to Marauder's Guild was sort of a giant slap in the face for those of us waiting for MSK.

[Kitru]

I'm honestly starting to wonder if we'll ever get it at all. The recent aethernet change from Coral Tower to Marauder's Guild was sort of a giant slap in the face for those of us waiting for MSK.

I'm pretty sure that change was simply put there to make it easier for people not intimately familiar with Limsa to navigate the city via the aethernet, just like they added which zones the various gates lead to. Furthermore, there isn't a MSK guild there at the moment, so the only thing there is the MRD's guild so it makes sense to name it the MRD's guild. If/when they add MSK, if the guild is also inside Coral Tower, I could easily see them either calling the aethernet node "Coral Tower (Marauder's Guild and Musketeer's Guild)" or "Marauder's Guild and Musketeer's Guild". This is, of course, operating under the assumption that the MSK guild will actually be in Coral Tower instead of a new building entirely (maybe connected to Coral Tower but not in it).

[jwilliams133]

I'm honestly starting to wonder if we'll ever get it at all. The recent aethernet change from Coral Tower to Marauder's Guild was sort of a giant slap in the face for those of us waiting for MSK.

I think it's interesting players are getting upset about certain "promised" content not having a set release date within an MMO. Games within this genre last years. This version of this game isn't even a year old, yet. Let's chill out a little...

[Nayto]

I think it's interesting players are getting upset about certain "promised" content not having a set release date within an MMO. Games within this genre last years. This version of this game isn't even a year old, yet. Let's chill out a little...

tbh that 'muskateer' guild has been out for more than a year...
To have that class scrapped after 2-3 years for ARR (Arcanist is totally different from what it was thought to be in 1.0) and then come out with a class that didn't even have a guild in the first place has pissed off more than you can imagine in your 'one year'.

[silentwindfr]

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dude, it's nice to not forget some important point:
1) musketeer was the next class added in the V1... when it was tanaka at the head of the project! when the V1 did.... fail. they did scrap all the add they had planned for rework the game.
2) why they did bring Arcanist instead of Musketeer? lack of magic class, was always the will of yoshida to add more magical class first.
3) why do rogue come first? because actually we already have 3 ranged dps class (2 magical and 1 physical) and only 2 melee dps (both physical) add another ranged class now will simply increase the trouble of balance between ranged vs melee (actually in melee it's almost insta dungeon in DF)
4) finally, i prefer they take more time for make the musketeer really unique, instead to have an archer with a gun.

however, you can be sure that after the rogue/ninja, the musketeer must be the next in line for the class add. Dark knight, samurai, red mage,... will probably not come out before the expansion.
even if i doubt it's possible, maybe (and i say a huge maybe) today we will learn from yoshida that the musketeer will come for the 2.4-2.6 who know! keep hope!

[LlenCoram]

I think it's interesting players are getting upset about certain "promised" content not having a set release date within an MMO. Games within this genre last years. This version of this game isn't even a year old, yet. Let's chill out a little...

As Nayto said, it's been a lot longer than one year. It's been four years. It doesn't matter that "this version" of the game is only a year old. What matters is that the Coral Tower is still in game, still houses the Musketeer guild, and we continue to get hints and teases that we may one day see a gun class.

Then they go and give us a different class entirely that wasn't in the game at all.

It's insulting.