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

[Shougun]

The misinformed person here would be you because he absolutely did re-iterate the exact same idea as his 2014 statement regarding Blue Mage when he was on stage during his Naoki's Room segment in december during the JP Fanfest.

Source, another source, and another.

Could you find anything in English please?

Google translate doesn't really give me anything that feels negative:

Blue Mage 's learning is amazingly interesting as a collection - like play. I am thinking about playing on the field recently, I think that fighting battle with monster with Blue Mage solo, learning and increasing the action like increasing play will be fun. In the future, it is not a solo exclusive job, but I think that the blue mage is an ant in the standing position like "Monster Dr.".

To me that reads "oooh blue mage is special, I think about running around by myself getting abilities - but in the future it will not be solo exclusive! I think of Blue Mage as "Doctor of monsters!""

Sounds like he just talked about how cool Blue Mage is and said it won't be solo only even though he wants to have a lot of solo play. But yeah I'm translating google translate so some serious yolo

Just FYI, I speak Japanese fluently... and the only "source" you linked where he even mentions BLU is the first link. And in there, he mentions NOTHING close to what he said in 2014. He talks about how Blue Mages are interesting because of how they defeat monsters to learn abilities, and how when they implement BLU in the future, it won't be a solo-only job because that wouldn't be interesting in an MMO, but it would be more akin to a "Monster Expert" class.

Well I'm glad it read like I thought it did, calms myself that he isn't going to go toss it into the bin as "not a real job" job. Also felt quite good that Blue Mage will probably happen, doesn't really say when though so I'm not taking that as "now" just.. its not a no either.