Being able to play as a proper thief would be wonderful. Firstly, this game has no small amount of role-players and regular players who do not envision their character as the or even a Warrior of Light. Secondly, ESO implemented an entire system based around bounties and criminal acts. Having something similar in FFXIV would be pretty neat, I think. An element of WoW that I really miss is also being able to play some genuinely 'dark' jobs. There's a great many JRPG's out there - including some FF titles - where the player character uses darker powers and methods to achieve victory.

The limited job system would be perfect for such a feature, I reckon.

Besides, the game and community are both very different compared to the days when Yoshi-P made such a statement on the whole thief thing. Let's not forget, he was also on record as finding the idea of male viera to be strange and...well, we saw the backlash from that when female hrothgar and male viera were left out.