Rogue/Ninja Starting Class?

[MirielleLavandre]

Like most have said - everyone, including me, posting about this wouldn't really be affected if they decided to gate the job behind 2.3. Most of us have it done and, if anything, could finish up to 2.3 in a night. What the issue is are the new people who this new class and job could potentially bring in as paying customers. Gating it behind having a lvl 50 and done with 2.3 may not seem difficult to us, but as many have said, to a new player seeing a "you can't play the class you want until you level one you don't" looks bad. And in the end, think of it this way:

Current player @ lvl 50 // would you quit the game if they release NIN and ROG playable to all new players at lvl 15 and 30 like all others? Probably not, regardless of lore.
New player or considering // would you NOT BUY the game or subscribe if they don't let you play NIN @30. Quite possibly.

Think of it from a business perspective, not a 'lore' or even 'RPG' perspective. For this or any MMO, if I saw a job I wanted to play, like stalker in Wildstar, but it required me to pretty much finish the game to even open up the class by playing a job I don't want to play, I'd never buy it. There are plenty of other MMOs out there. We are all looking at this from current players' perspectives. I believe SE looks at things from a 'let us try to get more paying customers' perspective. Now, if there ARE 50s who would quit the game should 'newbies' be allowed to play ROG/NIN, then I wonder if they are not the type who just hate letting others have things they think they had to 'work harder' for.

[Reynhart]

Like most have said - everyone, including me, posting about this wouldn't really be affected if they decided to gate the job behind 2.3. Most of us have it done and, if anything, could finish up to 2.3 in a night. What the issue is are the new people who this new class and job could potentially bring in as paying customers.

The game is based around leveling multiple class, so people WILL play something beside NIN. If they buy the game only if they can play ROG from the start, that means they're seriously narrow minded.
FF XIV is different from other game because it puts great emphasis on its lore and story. Throwing it away for the first major gameply addition is pretty stupid.

And after all, a lot of things are restricted from start. You wanna roam the land to hunt notorious monsters ? Get to lvl50. You wanna play in Duty with a full party ? Get to level 50. You wanna play PvP ? Get to lvl50 (And ilvl80, too).

But, I think that they'll open ROG from the start, sadly. Why ?
Because Yoshida made clear that ROG will have an official guild. When you see the first Rogues, they agree to meet you only because of your "connections". Were you a commoner, they'd never have talked to you. Following this, they'd probably hide their guild if they don't want everyone barging in. The fun part ? They could have kept the name "Thief", following this string of thougths.
If they're Rogue, that means they're out in the open. That means everybody can walk in join their guild, anytime.

And if Rogue is open from the start, I doubt NIN will be tied to 2.2.
Or, they'll make Rogue really interesting to play even past lvl30 since "everybody want to play Thief, and Rogue is Thief", but you could unlock NIN only if you clear 2.2.