>>715765625
oh goodness right i actually did forget all about that

back during stormblood and shadowbringers there was an actual, verifiable leaker called "blufever" among the XIV development team who successfully predicted a very large number of things about the expansions and upcoming updates, including blue mage's update (originally described as a support DPS by the leaker), viera and hrothgars' existence, machinist's rework, dancer as a ranged DPS, and where the plot was going

he was eventually announced as caught and he was probably either fired instantly at best or sued into the ground at worst. most likely he was a member of the art team or knew people that were in there, since he could reliably predict what jobs we were getting and what was coming in the plot but couldn't go into fine details and often got their placement wrong, like not knowing blue mage would be a "limited" job. mr happy was very, very loud in his announcement of blufever's identification and his role in it and pledged total allegiance to rooting out any future leakers, all in attempt to get into yoshida's good graces and become a more official part of the game's staff