The Final Fantasy 11 Event Rewards

[silentwindfr]

Yes, it is just a crossover, but the character it's featuring IS a Samurai. In XI Samurai can use katana (or great katana in English), longbows and certain spears. That does leave the red and blue mage reference hanging, but nothing in the anniversary event promised new classes so for all we know red and blue mage could be another reference to a future event. We just don't know.

exept blue mage was never mentioned that player that talk of it, Samurai and Red mage are the only jobs Yoshida did talk of it.
one as a job he want to bring (red mage) and the other as a jobs they had to choose between it and dark knight (samurai)

the thing, is they was thinking people will not want Samurai, but he was amazed by the reaction of the community accross the world about the samurai we can easily guess that it did make them decide to add it sooner than thinking.

[Gilraen]

Actually, while Yoshida did allude to Samurai, two non-interactable dev NPCs talking to eachother were discussing about colors with one favoring red and the other blue. This is where the Red Mage and Blue Mage speculation stems from. Noone specifically said Red Mage nor Blue Mage. It's all just speculation, but word of mouth tends to evolve as it passes on until it ultimately becomes nothing like was originally said.

Append: Okay, another handy thread corrected me. Yoshida did mention Red mage. Though there's still the two talking about red and blue so there's still that.

[SlyTribal]

Actually, while Yoshida did allude to Samurai, two non-interactable dev NPCs talking to eachother were discussing about colors with one favoring red and the other blue. This is where the Red Mage and Blue Mage speculation stems from. Noone specifically said Red Mage nor Blue Mage. It's all just speculation, but word of mouth tends to evolve as it passes on until it ultimately becomes nothing like was originally said.

Append: Okay, another handy thread corrected me. Yoshida did mention Red mage. Though there's still the two talking about red and blue so there's still that.

Actually, the Yoshida NPC mentioned specifically Samurai and Red Mage as possible future jobs. Blue Mage however was speculated from what you said

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[Yukiko]

It wasnt from that event, but true, there he said it too...
I am not sure if it was on a live letter or just in an interview, i guess it was from an interview...
There he talked about new jobs but he did not go into details...

[Gaddes]

Well that sucks... I get that Iroha is like the last important NPC in the story, but there are a LOT more important and memorable NPCs in FFXI that had much more interesting outfits. I'm hoping there's a more proper FFXI crossover event somewhere down the line that would incorporate more of the iconic elements of FFXI, because otherwise, this is a really lackluster crossover for what should be a big event/ending.