Quote Originally Posted by Nalien View Post
Thief, as a Job, would be used at endgame (or just post-30). Rouge, as a Class, would not.

Is this really a difficult concept to understand? People want Thief as a Job, because it's one of the more iconic Jobs in the franchise, which is why Yoshida even implemented Jobs in the first place. Literally his first order of business after taking over XIV was to implement iconic Final Fantasy Jobs...

Honestly, the reasoning of "What's the difference?" makes very little sense to me. What's the difference between Gladiator and Paladin? Literally the only iconic thing Paladin adds is Cover, and I very rarely see people using that. Lancer and Dragoon? All they added was Jumps. Why exactly is it so unreasonable to expect Rouge => Thief as a second Job when it would really be no different than what every other Job is?

People keep making this argument that Rouge might as well be Thief, because Jobs only add 5 abilities. Isn't that just an argument to add Thief though? Jobs only add AF/Relics and 5 abilities, so why not make Rouge => Thief? Most Job abilities aren't strictly related to the FF canon, for the most part they're just generic MMO moves. I really do not understand the rejection of a Thief Job possibility...
1. Thief is no more or less iconic in the FF series as Ninja. Both roles appear in more or less the same amount over time. If anything, it could be argued that Ninja's represent worldwide more 'beloved' FF characters than Thiefs.
2. Originally, Thief was the starting role, that get this....upgraded to NINJA....meaning endgame, you didn't see your little 16bit THF...but a 16bit NIN.
3. People are saying Rogue is another word for Thief, and that SE explained that they decided not to call it Thief (which btw implies that in their minds Rogue IS=THF and therefore the role/place for THF in this game is filled) is due to their personal feelings about what the term 'Thief' means and if it should belong in this world as a guild.

- The whole 'but come on...this game has a pirate town!' counter doesn't work well either because it's NOT the pirates who this story will be branching from. The Rogue(THF) character has been in this game from day 1 of the original 1.0 Storyline. He's a key figure in the main story, a scion and just point blank someone who has too much power and influence to be consider a 'petty' thief. But his womanizing ways, swagger and fighting style does feel very Rogue

They made a naming/lore decision. Deal with it.
The actual playstyle of THF however, they added. Who cares what the call it...or even what pixels they choose to represent it's imaginary gear?

4. The 'but it still could be a job down the road' people:
-Again, when SE explained why they are calling the class Rogue and not THF, they basically also implied that in their development minds, Rogue=another name for Thief. If this is true, then at least at this point, there is no future plan to include Thief as a potential job split off from Rogue.
-You run into a 'why would we need Thief as a job if we have Ninja' problem. You have 5 skills at the current level cap to make Ninja and Thief serve different party functions. They more or less would both have to attack the same (as SCH/SMN shows, your weapon and animations don't change, rather the additional 5 key skills do). So what could a Thief bring to a group that makes it shine AND different enough from Ninja. Also, in a DD saturated game, do we need yet another DD. If they did somehow develop Thief into a Support/Tank/Healer role, would it be enough to make the role seem fun and entice people to play....or would it be a chore? How many who want Thief for example, would really be happy if it was introduced in game....as a tank. And how many tank main-type people would be happy having to level the DD-role of Rogue for 30+ levels just so they could tank. (SCH suffers from this a little now...not all who enjoy healing enjoyed leveling ACN for 30 levels until they could actually heal). Maybe it could make a decent support-type role in game...but currently, that's not a 'queuing' option. And down the road when SUPPORT is a queuing option, is a Thief Support role really better than some of the other potential support roles that could (and probably should) be added to the game.


So the reason for the 'rejection' is this:
1. The 'stealth type'/fast attacker/ dual-wielding class/job IS being added -so people who enjoy this playstyle/role are getting what they want
2. It had to be named something...no matter what name they picked, someone would be sad. They could have named Ninja Thief, given it the SAME skills/ability and look and less of you would be complaining....but NIN people would be upset then most likely
3. When a dev team says more or less 'we decided not to name it x and named it y instead because....' it implies they developed it as x. Refer to it as x. Believe it fullfills the role of x. So there is no reason in their world to add another x. x already exists.
4. Logic. The jobs are simply too similar....at least in what is typically expected of them. Can SE go out on a limb and be creative. Sure. Is that what THF people want? Not really.
5. Its. A. Name.

PS: Paladin gets: Shield Oath/Sword Oath/Cover/Spirits Within/Hallowed Ground ( old name Invincible)
So it gets more than 'cover' and more than 1 iconic Skill....as Invincible is also iconic....also, level 50 is not level cap.