Square Enix please don't balance game to 1% player

Square Enix please don't balance game to 1% player

Square Enix who pay bills ?

1% who wand everyting be hard or 99% casual player

Cider spyder is super human or nvidia ai character

video game or movie or restaurant cant have 100% approval point because people like different thing

i have played World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria 2011 to end of 2024 but Blizzard nerf my main Demon hunter so now i dont have any character to play

" Demon Hunters in World of Warcraft have undergone several nerfs in Dragonflight to balance their gameplay. In the Dragonflight patch 10.1, Havoc Demon Hunters received talent changes and nerfs "

i say restaurant metaphor if like Salmon soup it very good so i go back restaurant many times then restaurant owner change recipe after change i don't like Salmon soup so why i ever go back ?

som people say try different dish but if i dont like any other dish only this restaurant i like salmon soup

back to FF14 i like Final Fantasy games and FF14 is good game but how long ?

i have played FF14 when stormblood lauch i like long story and this new Dawntrail story is not bad in my opinion i watch many japan anime show gundam -> fairy tail -> hunter x hunter and many moor

my main is summoneer and my secont character is healer white mage i ahve test many other but dont like it so if Square Enix "balance" summoneer gameplay what i then do ?

if one character is two button play why it cant be ?

why we cant have fun two button character ?

I don't understand why all games there are people complain this character to easy to play make it hard when FF14 have 21 different character / job why we cant have 1 fun and easy ?

if other player wand hard character to play there is moor to choose why i cant have 1 easy ?

if i play white mage keep party live and do some damege but easy way what it is way to other in party end coal is still clear dungeon ?

You say “why can’t I have an easy job” then list two jobs that are amongst the three easiest in the game

Like I don’t see how you can make SMN any easier. The only way to make WHM easier is to just make it not a healer considering it already makes itself easier by externalising its healing onto the shield healer anyway.

If your point is “you have hard jobs why do you hate that SMN is easy” well that’s because SMN used to be a hard job and people miss that job. Your own logic works in reverse here. Back when they redid SMN I could have said “if you want an easy job play RDM, leave SMN alone”. Same as WHM and SCH/AST at the time

i mean... you dont have to play perfectly in casual content.

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Originally Posted by Solitum

Square Enix please don't balance game to 1% player

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They haven't. If anything, they've gone the other direction and balanced it around the 99%. Go look at how we have the 2m Meta which is stale, the jobs being homogenized.

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Originally Posted by Solitum

Square Enix who pay bills ?

1% who wand everyting be hard or 99% casual player

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Both. They both pay the bills. It's still a sub at the end of the day.

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Originally Posted by Solitum

Cider spyder is super human or nvidia ai character

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Irrelevant to your argument.

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Originally Posted by Solitum

video game or movie or restaurant cant have 100% approval point because people like different thing

i have played World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria 2011 to end of 2024 but Blizzard nerf my main Demon hunter so now i dont have any character to play

" Demon Hunters in World of Warcraft have undergone several nerfs in Dragonflight to balance their gameplay. In the Dragonflight patch 10.1, Havoc Demon Hunters received talent changes and nerfs "

i say restaurant metaphor if like Salmon soup it very good so i go back restaurant many times then restaurant owner change recipe after change i don't like Salmon soup so why i ever go back ?

som people say try different dish but if i dont like any other dish only this restaurant i like salmon soup

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It never hurts to try something different. I haven't stayed in one job the entire time. I play with other jobs to get a better understanding of the game(if not to have a fresh gameplay perspective). Being stuck in one area gets stale in any video game so you know.

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Originally Posted by Solitum

my main is summoneer and my secont character is healer white mage i ahve test many other but dont like it so if Square Enix "balance" summoneer gameplay what i then do ?

if one character is two button play why it cant be ?

why we cant have fun two button character ?

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You're essentially noting the equivalent of a monkey only pressing two buttons on a gamepad. Sadly, this is the state Healers are in when there is nothing to heal - and I'm not talking about miniscule amounts of damage the tank is taking that Sylphies are healing constantly. I'm talking about big damage to everyone and Tank Busters. If a Healer only has 2 Buttons for their damage? It becomes very stale. Yawntrail did nothing for that and gave Healers a bone with no food on it.

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Originally Posted by Solitum

I don't understand why all games there are people complain this character to easy to play make it hard when FF14 have 21 different character / job why we cant have 1 fun and easy ?

if other player wand hard character to play there is moor to choose why i cant have 1 easy ?

if i play white mage keep party live and do some damege but easy way what it is way to other in party end coal is still clear dungeon ?

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This is where homogenization is a problem. If all the jobs feel the same, 2m Burst Window, feeling of rotation, etc.? It doesn't matter what job you play. You're just playing the role. What people want is distinct jobs that actually play differently from each other, and if they happen to be harder? Then you can decide whether you want to put in the time to play that job or learn a different job. There are still nuances that are unique to the job, but it's not enough to sate the player palate without it being talked about as the 'forced equivalent of X Gauge Management or Y Job' nowadays.

BLM already is getting QoL, but is also getting some hefty buffs that upend its identity. WHM plays relatively plain and simple. We can even talk about SMN vs. RDM/PCT/BLM. SMN is a braindead job because of the fact you only have to play with crayons and get the Blue, Orange, or White Crayon every 60s. It's super simple, and is lacking nuance compared to previous SMN, meanwhile these other Casters have some work that needs to be put in to get them to work. There's nothing wrong with an "easy job", but it's a matter of if people are willing to put in the time and effort to learn the job.

As a Healer, I can say they really aren't going for the 1%.

I came in here expecting to half agree with something.

Left disagreeing with it entirely.

They aren't balancing for the 1%.

They have been increasingly balancing for casual/returning/new players for a very, very long time now. So you don't need to worry. SMN and WHM are some of the easiest jobs in the game.

Hi, casual player that's ruining the game here. Please DO balance classes for the 1% if that means they're interesting and fun to play and distinct in their own particular ways. What they did to SMN is criminal. If they want easy-mode classes for the newer players, they should make VPR and its whack-a-mole gameplay accessible from a lower level.

The new player experience is awful slow and offputting, theirs been so many players who quit because of how slow and long ARR takes alone.

I don't get how its such a hard concept to grasp that we can have easy jobs for "casual players" while having "difficult jobs" for anyone wanting slightly more challenge, even new/casual players can pick up "difficult jobs" and they don't have to perform well if they're doing casual content itself.

I played paladin in SHB and didn't even know to DOT properly by 80, did it magically bar me off content? No. So why do we need to make changes that literally effect no one but people who go into hard content and expect to automatically be good at their job.

You are as bad as your grammar in game if u cant play summoner. It's literally mashing 1 button for 90% of the roto, my question is Why cant we have an actually hard job yoshi p. Why are u dumbing down the most satisfying job to play in 14? answer me u BLM poser yoshi p

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Originally Posted by Rithy255

The new player experience is awful slow and offputting, theirs been so many players who quit because of how slow and long ARR takes alone.

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I can only speak for myself, but when I started this game, the ARR jobs were definitely not the problem that made me question my decision to even play this game /cough/ post MSQ story /cough/

Otherwise I agree with the majority here - there should be easy jobs and content for people that like easy, and hard jobs and content for people that like hard. Personally I never liked BLM (all the 50 self-buffs you have to juggle with and how you loose them all any time a boss turns invulnerable, plays a cutscene, or whatever), so I did not play it. Was that a problem for me? Of course not. And if hypothetically speaking BLM does 20% more damage than any other class, and only BLMs get invited into hard content? I still don't care, since I'm not engaging with this content anyway ;)

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Originally Posted by Solitum

Square Enix who pay bills ?

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Not the free trial players, that's for sure.

But the game really isn't balanced to the 1%, I don't know where you have gotten that statistic from.

Has the job balance affected your casual play?

Maybe they're talking about the bottom 1% of players, who the devs actually seem to be catering to. The elusive silent minority who thought that Viper was too hard and that Black Mage should be easy.

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Originally Posted by Underscore

Maybe they're talking about the bottom 1% of players, who the devs actually seem to be catering to. The elusive silent minority who thought that Viper was too hard and that Black Mage should be easy.

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I don't think the bottom 1% of players would even notice these changes, we got healers who don't deal damage still.

I think the goal is to make BLM more appealing from savage/ultimate where all jobs should just be easy so the only stuff we focus on is the DDR mechs.

Sadly I like job design and not just DDR so I don't think i'll be playing much more ff outside of just chilling with friends.

All jobs must be playable by narcoleptic monkeys. All jobs must be reworked to appeal to the people who hate them the most. If they haven't come for your job yet, it's only a matter of time. Please look forward to it.

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Originally Posted by CidHeiral

All jobs must be playable by narcoleptic monkeys. All jobs must be reworked to appeal to the people who hate them the most. If they haven't come for your job yet, it's only a matter of time. Please look forward to it.

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I think at this point every job has gotten at least one hated change (apart from picto?)

Whats even left at this point that's fun or unique???? as a serious question.

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Originally Posted by Rithy255

I think at this point every job has gotten at least one hated change (apart from picto?)

Whats even left at this point that's fun or unique???? as a serious question.

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They apparently want the game to be in a state where every job is completely mindless and the only thing differentiating them are the spell effects. I have zero faith in this supposed 8.0 job design overhaul after seeing them do nothing but double down on the job simplification and homogenization every patch of Dawntrail.

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Originally Posted by CidHeiral

They apparently want the game to be in a state where every job is completely mindless and the only thing differentiating them are the spell effects. I have zero faith in this supposed 8.0 job design overhaul after seeing them do nothing but double down on the job simplification and homogenization every patch of Dawntrail.

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If anything the design overhaul will be
1. Auto combo.
2. Double down on DT Design
3. Remove most damage ogcd's cuz people sometimes forget to press them.

Please look forward to it. I do honestly believe 8.0 will be a big overhaul just another massive downgrade.

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Originally Posted by Rithy255

If anything the design overhaul will be
1. Auto combo.
2. Double down on DT Design
3. Remove most damage ogcd's cuz people sometimes forget to press them.

Please look forward to it. I do honestly believe 8.0 will be a big overhaul just another massive downgrade.

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"Every job now has two buttons: Attack (builds bar) and Big Attack (spends bar). Tanks also have Ouchie (damage reduction) and healers have Fix Ouchie (heals everyone to max HP). Now all jobs are accessible to everyone! Enjoy!"

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Originally Posted by CidHeiral

"Every job now has two buttons: Attack (builds bar) and Big Attack (spends bar). Tanks also have Ouchie (damage reduction) and healers have Fix Ouchie (heals everyone to max HP). Now all jobs are accessible to everyone! Enjoy!"

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We joke around but this is genuinely like how close we are getting at this point, the job design is so bland and awful theirs hardly anything to even take at this point.

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Originally Posted by Rithy255

If anything the design overhaul will be
1. Auto combo.
2. Double down on DT Design
3. Remove most damage ogcd's cuz people sometimes forget to press them.

Please look forward to it. I do honestly believe 8.0 will be a big overhaul just another massive downgrade.

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The auto combo thing isn't even a joke because they literally, actually did it in FF16. Auto dodging too.

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Originally Posted by Rithy255

1. Auto combo..

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Unironically, putting the combos onto one button would give them a reason to not take skills away for 1 or 2 expansions as they can save a few action bar slots... But it would also dumb the game down.

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Originally Posted by Solitum

1% who wand everyting be hard or 99% casual player

i say restaurant metaphor if like Salmon soup it very good so i go back restaurant many times then restaurant owner change recipe after change i don't like Salmon soup so why i ever go back ?

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The restaurant had steak tartare, mapo tofu, salmon soup, fresh baguette, and you're asking them "only 1% eat mapo tofu, make everything salmon soup now!!!!"

The hypocrisy and frankly antisocial selfishness of this community will never cease to amaze me.

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