Live letter question about medling

Anyone watch or read through the live letter questions. The one on melding I found funny.

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Q: I haven’t leveled any Disciples of the Hand classes yet, and I always ask my friends to meld materia. But whenever they fail advanced melding they feel bad. Do you plan on adding an NPC that we can use for advanced melding requests?

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I especially found this part funny "But whenever they fail advanced melding they feel bad." That was a masterfully crafted question to try to get the dev team to feel sorry for them and I guess try to guilt them into changing the system. I'm in a crafting ls that is almost at the max limit of people it can have and never heard anyone talk about how they feel bad when melds fail for other people.

What next? Will "overmeld," "forbidden meld," and "advanced melding" all become a "trigger words?"

That is the world we live in... No damage meters or talk of them.

Why would someone feel bad? Melding is rng with the crafter having no actual effect on the outcome lol. What a dumb guilt trip.

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

Why would someone feel bad? Melding is rng with the crafter having no actual effect on the outcome lol. What a dumb guilt trip.

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Yea that was my thought when I read that question.

I actually feel bad whenever I fail melds for people, even if it's RNG. One can feel bad (that is, empathize with the fact that blowing up materia sucks) and not feel responsible for it.

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Originally Posted by Alahra

I actually feel bad whenever I fail melds for people, even if it's RNG. One can feel bad (that is, empathize with the fact that blowing up materia sucks) and not feel responsible for it.

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Exactly, you can't help but feel bad for the person & that will always create a feeling of responsibility. It's just human nature, or at least it is for people who have a normal level of empathy.

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Originally Posted by Culfinrandir

Exactly, you can't help but feel bad for the person & that will always create a feeling of responsibility. It's just human nature, or at least it is for people who have a normal level of empathy.

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It is far beyond natural human empathy to be so affected by failing something, through no fault of your own, to need something put in place so that you can avoid it ever happening again. Does it suck when melds fail? Absolutely.. whether it is your own or someone elses. Is it so traumatic that I would advocate for an NPC to do it instead of me? No.. that is pure silliness.

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Originally Posted by Culfinrandir

Exactly, you can't help but feel bad for the person & that will always create a feeling of responsibility. It's just human nature, or at least it is for people who have a normal level of empathy.

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I still don't see how that makes the person doing the melds feel bad, someone comes to you and request a meld and it 10% success rate meaning it 90% chance it going to fail, I put up PF ads once in while doing melds and i treat them just like if I was a NPC they click request meld and I press the ok/meld button. I most likely won't even remember you later if you come back and say "can you do more melds for me" the answer would be be "ok" or "sure"

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Originally Posted by Aramina

It is far beyond natural human empathy to be so affected by failing something, through no fault of your own, to need something put in place so that you can avoid it ever happening again. Does it suck when melds fail? Absolutely.. whether it is your own or someone elses. Is it so traumatic that I would advocate for an NPC to do it instead of me? No.. that is pure silliness.

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How many people feel guilty when assaulted, mugged, burgled or have a discussion with someone who has? A lot, it's a natural empathising process. You may want think on that; if you don't feel that way they maybe you don't empathise the same as others, which is perfectly fine as we all vary on a spectrum.