Hints at new class? Maybe?

[Lauront]

Why don't I want the job? I don't find it appealing. I've never felt gunblades were an interesting weapon. Others can demand it, no problem there. I just really hope that it isn't, so that a different job can be added. I'd take geomancer or dancer or some other original job over a gunblade job personally.

They're not mutually exclusive. Gunblade would be "original" in FF terms as no job has actually been built around the weapon in its entirety. The only archived jobs they have left (and I am excluding one-trick ponies or jobs who've had their abilities subsumed into other jobs) are: Oracle/Mystic/Geomancer; Blue Mage; Dancer; Beast tamer. All the rest have been implemented in some fashion, or other. Regarding people mentioning blunt weapons, any of these archived jobs could serve this purpose. I'm not a GBL enthusiast myself, and would prefer the Oracle, but again, they will be adding 2 jobs, perhaps even 3, so it's not the end of the world if one of them is not to your tastes. Bear in mind part of the reason for their burn out in HW was that they had introduced 3 jobs but also the NIN was added mid-way into ARR, so they were effectively working on 4 jobs in that timespan. Maybe even 5 if SAM was in the works at that point, given that it was cut from HW.

I am more concerned, at this point, about how they are going to develop existing jobs further and perhaps work on the issues facing some of them. They have a lot of time to add new jobs and probably some are already a fait accompli (namely, the Oracle.) Working on the other 15 already existing jobs and fixing them where they're going wrong is a much bigger task. In that regard, they will need to keep some of the archived jobs for further subsumption into existing ones, as well as designing brand new abilities for them.

Assuming that I am right, i.e. that there's 2 expansions left and each could see a max of 3 jobs for a total of 6, with 3 of those being "archive" options, I'd be curious what original jobs they might come up with at this point, especially once Gunblade is in.