Originally Posted by
Deuce
I haven't kept too up to date on everything the secs have said as of late, but searching through the questions of the most recent live letter, #17, leads me to believe it's still a ways away from being finished.
The second question in he liver letter speaks about casual content and the gold saucer in particular and really only mentions their plans have progressed and not development. This is the quote, "...the largest system we have planned at the moment would have to be the gold saucer that I mentioned earlier. Our plans for this have progressed quite a bit." Now from my understanding they have no specific date. You may be thinking of the next sentence which is in reference to ninja and reads, "additionally, the new class, rogue, and the new job, ninja, will be implemented in 2.4, and the growth elements surrounding this are considered one part of the casual content we have planned."
Obviously this is translated so there could be a bit of mistranslation, however, it is the official source. I understood that as ninja in 2.4 and gold saucer beyond that, possibly 2.45 or 2.5 at the earliest. However, fan fest is coming up next month so I could be proven entirely wrong with some big reveal, but I doubt it. Based on the wording from the live letter they've just begun development on it and most likely they're going to use to keep people interested in the game between 2.4 and whenever the expansion hits.