Why not THF job?

[Dyvid]

"A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet." Honestly we don't even know the abilities that Rogue has. I'm sure it'll have some kind of mug and steal along with a "flee" trait. I also believe they would add THF looking gear for people to glamour.

[Erudain]

There's a 60 page thread with this discussion in the main forum.

Here, let me link it for you: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...OGUE-confirmed

[L-D-Omlette]

While I am not holding my breath or even thinking it will really happen; making the class Rogue leaves the door open to create a second job to stem from it as Thief. With the lore explanations given regarding the guild, this also leaves the door open for a lone Thief to refuse to join the guild, or rediscover the "old ways." (Think similar to Monk, or Warrior)

E3 last year they announced Arcanist and Summoner, without mentioning Scholar at all, it is possible they would have a repeat performance here...

Again, not holding my breath.

[Skander]

Lancer becomes dragoon (iconic), marauder becomes warrior (iconic), pugilist becomes monk (iconic).... See where I'm going? Classes are XIV things, and jobs are FF things. I agree in the sense that I would have liked to see the thief job introduced and implemented, and yes... For me it's a nostalgic throwback to my XI days... Alas, I don't see that happening with rogues already having 'stealth specific' actions and abilities. Its nothing game brsaking. It's more of 'oh.... Ah well, ninjas are cool too.' Kind of feeling.

[Exstal]

Not only did Naoki not explicitly say there is no Thief job, you people need to understand why it would be stupid to have Thief job right now. What did Naoki want to add? Stealth class. Rogue/Ninja added. Done. What's next? Gun class. After that? Healer/Tank. After that? Probably Red Mage. After some more well known or needed classes are added, we can back track to the weaker and less useful classes.

Remember, Thief was overall a weaker Ninja with the only utility being that Steal was pretty good in single player games. Even in FFXI they had to get creative to make Thief not get completely outclassed by Ninja (which they inadvertently made a tank). So if you can get a good reason why Thief job needs to happen now, or within the first expansion, it would do you some good to list reasons.

Here's I'll start you off with the most common one;
1. Because I want it
2.