Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
See, this Yoshi P talking, so we need to read between the lines. Remember he said "We said that BLU does not fit into XIVs system, but we didn't say we wouldn't add it", and "We said that adding a new job during a patch would be too much work, but we didn't say we wouldn't do it".

We have two pieces of information, which is what BLU is designed for, and what it can and cannot do. One of those pieces of information is that BLU can do most instanced content as a pre-formed party, and a lot of the justification for locking it out of matchmaking and special battle content makes sense, raids not so much.

Also ask yourself, why didn't they just wait until the expansion? New jobs are used to sell expansions, so why are they adding BLU in 4.5 with no expansion requirement? The answer would be the same as why they added custom deliveries in 3.5, to test the waters with a new experimental feature to expand upon it in the expansion.
Yoshi P does not give bonus content ever, what he does is say we are working on it please look forward to it and then you never see it or you see it 3-4 years later. Sooooooooo yeah you read through those lines and 3-4 years later you will finally get it when everyone has forgotten about it or you will just never see it. They didn't add it to test the waters, they added it to stave off pre-expansion boredom and because it's designed for force you to do their old world content making it look like it's not dead. I suspect they will fail on both accounts as atma the minigame sounds ghastly and it will only keep the world looking alive for like maybe a month. So yeah, lets revisit this in 3-4 years and see if they are just testing it for later.