Quote Originally Posted by frankenbeans View Post
However why on earth would they put in the red mage and sam files now six months early when they know about data mining. Yoshida has specifically spoken out against data mining in live letters and interviews and how he wants them to stop.

Personally it doesn't make sense nor the Sam Raimi samurai theory. Where did you get this info that Red mage comes from Sharlaya? Is it just because its a mage? Personally I think some people want Samurai so badly that they don't even want to entertain the idea that it could be something different.
You assume they intentionally put the SAM files in right now and it wasn't simply an oversight/mistake that they weren't removed from the update going out. Developers are human after-all and are certainly being worked incredibly hard as they make Stormblood right now, it's far more likely that someone simply made a mistake and slipped them in or forgot to take them out.


And just because you don't think the Sam Raimi thing is a valid theory doesn't change that it's still plausible especially from the JP side of things, in which his name spelled out literally reads Samurai(mi). As for Red Mage, it's visual style is identical to Sharlayan aesthetics on top of it's weapon and the concept of a mage that develops a new kind of magic by combining white and black magic. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...