NINJA and ROGUE confirmed

[Nalien]

Yeah, I love your idea with the Chemist (though I'd keep it called Chemist as that sounds nice), but people really wanted their Sneak Attack, Trick Attack, Treasure Hunter, Flee (we have Flee already, it's called Sprint, and it's faster than Swiftsong and almost as fast as a mount) Thieves with their iconic green vest-and-tubetop AF. And they will keep demanding it despite the fact that Yoshida has been trying to avoid direct inspirations from XI this entire time. Not even Tanaka wanted to draw that heavily from XI.

The thing is, and I'm sure I've posted this before, one of the main complaints XIV 1.0 got was a lack of Final Fantasy Jobs. So much so that that was one of the first things Yoshida addressed. The classic Final Fantasy Jobs are important to the fans, Yoshida has admitted that much, and implemented them in a fairly nonsensical way, keeping Classes and making them almost completely redundant post-30. What he is now doing with Thief seems to contradict all that, one of the most iconic Jobs either ruled out completely, or just renamed and tossed aside at Lv30? Isn't that exactly what a large amount of people disliked about the Class system in 1.0? We didn't get White Mage and Black Mage then, we got Thaumaturge and Conjurer. A lot of people liked the openness of that system, but a lot more were complaining that Final Fantasy XIV didn't have Final Fantasy Jobs.

I don't even care about Thief, I wanted Ninja and I've got it, I just find it extremely odd that after going out of his way to implement classic Jobs into XIV, Yoshida is now forsaking one of the most classic Jobs. It's not even that Thief wont work in XIV, it will, it just requires a bit of imagination and taking some liberty with the Job itself (See: Bard).