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.
In the case of Scholar that Iromi pointed out, it was to be a placeholder, and also to move in some files early to shrink the patch day load. Its common practice, SE has many times added clothes and minions and such in a patch or two before they are released. The reason directly for Scholar and possibly the new jobs now, is that 2.0 was a major update, I mean huge even by big 24 hour update standards. They have to get as much in as they can to avoid extra long downloads which if done by enough people at once can jam things up. If these files are real, then I expect the 4.0 patch will be a monster and they want to try and shrink the load where they can.