Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
That just sounds like he has much bigger plans than "First thing after Arcanist and Summoner, we release Scholar. That's what we need right now."
I don't necessarily think that having bigger plans and releasing Scholar now are incompatible. Raising the level cap as they add more jobs is fine, but we know they're not raising it at launch. So that gives most veteran players only ACN to level -- when will there ever be a time where a second new class is more needed in terms of people not having enough to level?

And yes, I know they've added a lot of end-game stuff, but surely they want us to experience the journey as well as the destination. Not to mention that without a second class at start up, you can bet your boots we'll be seeing full parties of Arcanists toting entire packs of Carbuncles around the cliffs of La Noscea for at least a month. I'm definitely in favor of anything that'll mitigate that and hopefully they are too.

Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
Maybe they got SMN ready ahead of schedule, and made something else, and they figured SCH would be totally useful over BLU and RDM.
Away with your filthy logic! I want this, okay?! No, but I do agree that SCH is not the most logical choice for a ninth job. That's actually a point I made elsewhere when the image first cropped up. But SE doesn't necessarily have a history of releasing things in the order that I, personally, find most logical, so I'm hesitantly willing to overlook that. And if Scholar was already in the early stages of development when Yoshi-P made that comment, I don't find it too much of a stretch that he'd avoid mentioning it by name.