Do you really think that little of your player base?

[Ritsuka]

It probably was an excuse, but it's true that (especially in japan) there are a considerable amount of players who are against the excessive gearswaps the game "requires" from the playerbase nowadays, especially for some jobs.

An idle set, a regen set, a refresh set, a movement speed set, a PDT set, an MDT set, a precast set, a postcast set, nuke set, debuffset, DD set, ws set, blah blah and countless variations of these sets.


It sure got to levels on a different scale compared to, say, the situation 5 years ago. This is for several reasons. I can think of the playerbase "growing up" and wishing to furtherly tweak their performance in-game, and because of SE offering countless new options of gear which are way too situational and can be used only for a couple of things.
This is especially evident for mage jobs.
I'm a complete mage noob, yet the amount of gear I have for my SCH and the amount of swaps I do gives me the headache.
Thinking about all the people who do that without spellcast just enhances these thoughts. (I don't, for instance)

So yeah, it's not just a couple of players, a considerable amount of players are against gearswapping.
As for my position I dunno, I'm a "slave" to the system of course, but while I really like a certain amount of gear swap, I also do think that nowadays' levels have definitely passed the line of acceptability, we really have too many situational pieces with very limited use. Some jobs are constantly swapping, it can understand some people getting annoyed by that.
Still, this is not something that can be fixed, it's too late, and certainly they cannot "fix" it by giving replies such as the one you mentioned, which is absolutely ridiculous of course.

I think i remember reading some where that Square never intended people to do gear swiping with macro's. its just something ppl started to do to get nice damage with their job