A Big Thank You to Yoshida and the Eorzea Alliance

[loreleidiangelo]

Despite my critical remarks of late, I do appreciate that the devs really are passionate about the game, even if it seems like they're not always given the time or the budget necessary to make some of their more grandiose aspirations a reality. You can tell in interviews and streams and stuff with Yoshi-P that he really is trying to create a game that a lot of people enjoy, despite what probably seem like seas of dissenting feedback from all sides.

EDIT: on a cynical note though, one could argue that in his bid to avoid the stereotype of "overpowered new class in an MMO", he UNDERtuned DRK/AST/MCH quite a bit at HW launch. Perhaps some of it was players trying to learn the class (I never felt as though AST was as bad as the original doomsayers portended), but looking at the subsequent buffs to MCH and AST at least it's pretty clear that they weren't really being represented for content the way the devs wanted them to be. Cynical, as I said, but I don't think they'll be able to "win" with RDM - even if it comes out wholly average in the grand scheme of things, people will still complain because all new MMO classes are set up with unreasonable amounts of hype around them.