Expansion Jobs Speculation

[Exstal]

I haven't seen one statement saying "THERE WILL BE NO THIEF."

So... one?

There is one.

　名称については……開発チームでも本音を言えば“シーフ”と呼びたいのです（苦笑）。でも各都市に拠点があって、クラスギルドがあるのですが、仮に地下組織でシーフとした場合、表舞台に出せず、そうなるとメインストーリー上も苦しくなります。彼らはかつてリムサ・ロミンサの港町……あ、言っちゃった（笑）……、がまだ海賊で荒れていた時代に、サンクレッドも言っていたとおり、裏で義賊的に活動していた。それがちゃんと体系化して、国にもある程度認められてギルドを持つことができた。それをずっとシーフ（盗賊）と呼び続けることは変だろうと。民衆からの尊敬の念もあり、体系化された武術として双剣士という形になった。僕らなりに考えた、今の時代のシーフを目指して作りました。

Here's the google translation,

I want to be called "Thief" speaking or truth in ...... development team for name (laughs). But if there are offices in each city, I have a class guild, but if you have a Thief in the underground organization if, it is not put out to center stage, Sonaruto will be painful on the main story. A time when it was rough in the pirate still Oh port city ...... of Limsa Lominsa, you've said but (laughs) ...,, as thunk Red was also said, they had been working in Gizoku at the back once. It was possible to organize properly it, have a guild recognized to some extent in the country. Be Yobitsuzukeru Thief and (thieves) all the time it would be strange. There is also a sense of respect from the people, I became a form of bi-swordsman as martial arts that have been organized. It made it to aim and thought we Nari, the Thief of age today.

Here's the Blue Gartr forums translation,

Truthfully, I wanted the class(*) to be called “Thief,” but the development team wouldn’t have it (laughs). You see, there are guild headquarters in each city for all of the different classes, but if we had a class called “Thief,” it would have to be some kind of underground organization since it wouldn’t make sense to just be out in the open and it would be difficult to include in the main scenario. I told them, well, Limsa Lominsa is a port town and it was once overrun with pirates (laughs)…. but as Thancred pointed out, to properly organize it, the guild would have to be recognized by the nation at least to some extent, and it would be strange if they kept calling themselves “Thieves.” Also, the dual wielding nature of rogues is a form of martial arts that has some respect among Eorzeans, so we intended Rogue to be the Thieves of today.

* Blue Gartr put "job" here, but there is no mention of the word job in the original