Please add Musketeer

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I don't know if I can agree with this statement 100%. There have been tons of things added and changed in the game because players asked for it. I mean they did multiple player polls to shape the game according to what the players would like to see, and followed though with a majority of it. Even when it came to adding new classes the most asked for were in order of popularity:

#1: One that controls and fights alongside a pet or avatar.(ex. Summoner, Puppetmaster, etc.)
#2: An original class unlike any of those described above.(ex. Musketeer, Arithmetician, etc.)
#3: An assassin-type class that uses lethal and stealthy attacks. (ex. Ninja, Thief, etc.)

The rest I can agree with to some point, there is a development cycle etc. But they have defiantly added and/or changed things within the game to make the players happy because they asked/demanded it.

Of course. And even those things that are added or changed are worked into their cycles. When there's a simple fix or good idea, usually QoL, they work it in immediately (next patch) if it's not a complicated task or messes with server side latency. Bigger ideas or complicated tasks, get worked into a subsequent or future patch (they always inform us before hand that we will see it in the future). Never will you see players begging for a new job suddenly push the devs into a speedier development of said job.

#1 There was a post a very long time ago (before FFXIV: ARR) with Yoshi-P stating that he wanted a magical pet class added to as well as a physical pet class. Thus ARC/SMN/SCH came to be.

#2 This post has also come from Yoshi-P in the form of him wanting to see Red Mage, Blue Mage, Musketeer, and any manner of hybrid job classes added to the game eventually. This is now being discussed as they've realized most of these ideas cannot be fully utilized unless they change the current job system (or deviate from it) so that it's not too reliant on class abilities.

#3 The idea for Ninja had also been around as long as #2. He's also always wanted a stealthy class in the game.

He basically said in an interview a long time ago that "I want what you guys want." I'm not denying this statement wasn't said at all. However, when these classes/jobs we want are added, it will be within their development cycle, not because we are incessantly begging for it on the official forums. He does look at our ideas, and takes into consideration what we want to see. However, there's a process to adding jobs as well, one of which we don't know the full details.

The man has made it known he's a huge MMO nerd. I think he will do right by the FFXIV community and not let us down with Musketeer. It's all a matter of patience.