Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
It's not assumptions. Yoshida explained that he wanted Thief to be a class, but it appeared weird to have a "Thieve's guild" so the name was changed. But Rogue is everything that Thief was.
Actually, he could have made a secret Thieve's guild, than you could have entered with a password to the right person, but I don't know why he didn't go that way.
Yes he wants a thief class because it wouldn't be final fantasy without one, but thief is a traditional final fantasy job, and therefore would fit into the game as we know it as a job, not a class. So to fit into the system they have created in FF14, they make rogue the class. Makes perfect sense, I bet they add thief job in the future