So... that spiderman shirt... (new job tease)

[Reinha]

That has nothing to do with my comment. What I tried to show is that everyone have their preferences, so people should stop with the "we don't need any more role x or role y" because THERE ARE people that would like to have new eolw x or y jobs.

I don't think you read my comment fully if all you got from it was me telling that new tank and healer jobs are not needed. I quite clearly stated that adding more jobs to only one role is not good for the game.

[Zojha]

What I tried to show is that everyone have their preferences[...]

And water is wet. I don't think it really needs to be spelled out.

Any argument on need or not need is valid, but only in regards to the respective goal they want to achieve. If you want to tie shoelaces, you need a shoelace, if you prefer zippers you need a zipper and no shoelace. If you want no shoes at all, you need neither, but you might still want them for your sick zipper fetish.

As such, people should definitely keep the "need" arguments coming! But they should always state what they need or not need it for.

[Celef]

Again remember that we may (might ? never know when to use those 2 in speculation ^^") get only 2 jobs :
- "confirmation" by the famous tweet
- Yoshida saying 3 was a pain
But still, 3 fan fest in total....the guy has to wear something ^^" the spiderman T-shirt might just be a way to keep us busy speculating until the last Fanfest xD

[Ceasaria]

Again remember that we may (might ? never know when to use those 2 in speculation ^^") get only 2 jobs :
- "confirmation" by the famous tweet
- Yoshida saying 3 was a pain
But still, 3 fan fest in total....the guy has to wear something ^^" the spiderman T-shirt might just be a way to keep us busy speculating until the last Fanfest xD

My answer !

The only thing said about developing three jobs, was that Yoshida received feedback from the battle team that designing 3 jobs was "Something that they'd never want to do again, ever." and it was played for laughs. This is a far cry from him directly stating it was too difficult and that they would never do it again, only that he received complaints from the battle team over it. One also has to take into fact as mentioned above, they were also at least partially working on Ninja at around the same time as well.

These things, coupled with the fact Stormblood supposedly has an increased budget and is lacking some things that would take up asset development time at the least (no new race for example) means it should still be possible to deliver 3 jobs once again. On top of that, there was a comment from Yoshida during the 14 hour anniversary stream that there was a hint towards the number of new jobs in the Moonfire summer event, the likely allusion to there being 3 rangers, and thus 3 jobs.

[RukiaFae]

When and where? I've never seen any official line stating that Moonfire Faire had anything to do with new jobs.

The interview of the 14 hour anniversary broadcast. Someone posted a link a few pages back. https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...unity_related/

[Beckett]

The interview of the 14 hour anniversary broadcast. Someone posted a link a few pages back. https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...unity_related/

That seems, at best, incredibly vague. At worst, a bad translation. Has anyone directly translated the exchange?

[ErikMynhier]

I wish all the new jobs were dps...

I'm good with them being all dps, I've got a new levelcap and I've got 3 tanks to level. If RDM and SAM are dps, my que will be so fast it'll pop before I hit the button.

[DBelmont]

Even if I think that 2 jobs means 2 dps is a likely theory, I don't like it myself. For SAM, I want it to be a tank. Also think about the fact that RDM and SAM are both fan favorites and as dps AND expansion attractions they will dominate the scene for quite some time. During that time, DPS queues will be hell, be it levelling or even endgame.

I myself don't have an issue cause I almost exclusively play on my DRK. But what about the game quality? The best option in my opinion is to add SAM tank and another healer for a total of 3 jobs covering the trinity.

[VeliusVire]

I thought I'd chime in with a few things, so firstly it's been mentioned before that Yoshi-P went into great depth talking about BLU at the Toyko FanFest back in December, this should've been a glaring indicator that BLU isn't coming in 4.0. It's poor PR to talk about how he's struggling to conceptualise how to implement BLU right before /introducing/ it.

As for SAM/DNC, note he's avidly avoided talking about both of these jobs to a great extent, each time they're asked, Yoshi immediately deviates to another topic, or heck, talks about how BLU/BST isn't coming any time soon due trying to figure out how they'd work or fit into the story.

There's two weeks left before FanFest, and going by the evidence dropped by Yoshi P in these interviews, as well the datamined stuff, I think it's very very very safe that SAM /is/ coming, that Sam Raimi is the hint that everybody is denying despite it resonating strongly within the JP community. I digress, keep discussing, I love reading it!

[RaijinSupreme]

Yeahh... Like Samurai is definitely coming to the game. There's no telling that Blue mage is or isn't. We could get both. we could get 1 now and one later. But Sam is coming.

And the only real thing that convinced me was the fact that it has now been included in the game's lore, on top of all the other SAM clues.

Once Blue Mage is included directly in the game's lore, then I'll be convinced about it as well.