Quote Originally Posted by Bec View Post
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Because raw data is a bigger instrument of change than the vocal minority.

A very small amount of people are actually part of this official forum, and while they do hear (for better or for worse) us it is more often than not taken with a grain of salt.

however, if people stop playing a job all together; if the amount of people clearing endgame content with X job is much lower than projected expectations that is how you get a developer's attention. It is somewhat similar to shifting metas pvp based games. "x weapon/character/class is intrinsically superior to the majority", so the majority ends up using that exclusively.

actions speak louder than words. If either dark knight or warrior are bad enough come 4.0, people will stop playing them for a better designed, or more entertaining job. same thing happened in 2.0 where warriors were stunted in progression due to being a reactive tank rather than a preemptive one.