The Unofficial "Why is this still a thing" Thread

[GunksFoy]

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IIRC, the "massively larger budget" was shown to be a fan theory, not fact. But I've been gone from the game for awhile so that may have been validated. I would be interested to see proof of that though. And maybe not for 2.x, but most of 4.0 was voiced. They are not going to retroactively voice cutscenes, that's an asinine waste of money. That is a silly mentality for your friends. Every cutscene is at least mildly important to the story. How did they even survive gaming before every cutscene was voiced. Do they even play any game besides this one and massive budget triple A titles? I assume they can read, and reading a dozen or so lines of text every now and then is not a great imposition. Would it be great if every cutscene was voiced? Sure. Is it necessary to spend that kind of money on it compared to developing content? Not in my opinion.

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Not trying to offend you, just giving you an outside perspective. And you yourself just said that even the best bards only get ~330 dps from it, making your 400 number high for even the best. Yes, all that dps came from the Dragoon, but Disembowel is your complaint. Dragoon is not losing the other skills in your proposal, so it's disingenuous to claim you "lose 400+ dps from 1 buff". Take away Disembowel, Dragoon falls out of meta, you still lose ~150 dps (based on your own numbers, ~400 loss, ~260 from Disembowel) plus more from other party members. Besides that, someone else said "caster dps is different because it's calculated before bard/mch buffs", and I seriously doubt SE tuned Bard/Mch to be gated behind a Dragoon in the party. Are raids unclearable for you without a Dragoon in the group? If not, then the dragoon dps is icing on the cake and not mandatory. Just my opinion, but it seems that there isn't an issue here.