Quote Originally Posted by Mcshiggs View Post
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Thief_(Job) You can see here that thief has not only been in Final Fantasy since the original, it has appeared in many more games.
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Quote Originally Posted by Bigpurpleharness View Post
The ability to play it at endgame, for the very starters. Seems like many iconic Thief abilities won't be included. It's not the same if you've ever played previous FFs. Definitely nowhere near as close as Marauder >> Warrior/Fighter.
Steal is a huge branch onto itself, then there's yokodama and hate control. That's also excluding all of the MMO specific things they could add that's new like they've done for every job, as both points have been explained multiple times.

Yokodama and hate control was only in FFXI. Hence my statement is fully justified.