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

[frankenbeans]

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...

I can agree in the possibility of human error; however, This is apparently the same thing that happened with the Scholar reveal in the early 2.0 beta as SCH was data mined, revealing the class. To say that they did not learn from that mistake on such a huge reveal for an upcoming expansion borders on incompetence/intentional on the part of whoever is in charge of the patching the content.

Yoshi-P has spoken out against Data mining in interviews of the past so he is full aware these kind of things happen. It is honestly just hard for me to believe that they wouldn't have some sort of precautions to prevent big leaks like this, especially so early on before a big event like an upcoming fan fest, spoiling the big news.

Honestly, Yoshi has also commented on the past that he wants players to feel excited about upcoming content and be surprised. To me, a leak like this is a red hearing to through us off so that we Will be surprised at the Fan Fest ie 3 new classes (Blue Mage Tank, Red Mage DPS, Dancer Healer)

A man can dream can't he?