The Blue Mage Argument at a glance

[MrKimper]

Your personal feelings should not and do not hold decision making power over this dev team, none of ours do. Because they don't make this game with our opinions. They make this game as they see fit and try to give us what we ask for along the way. Which I've already detailed in some forum thread or another maybe even this one. They are actually doing a lot of what we asked for in BLU it's just that people are so in an uproar over "HOWD THEY DO THIS TO BLU MAGE?! RE RE RE!!" to actually see the potential for addressing a number of our bigger concerns with a singular system and the expense of on job. If this was any other job, or even an original job in this system and not blue mage half of you would not even be this upset. You have no idea how much resources they put into this or what their plans are for it so throwing up or even hinting at "it's a waste of resources." isn't even an argument either not yet at least because you haven't even touched the system yet to be able to provide actual feedback. Just emotional backlash.

You're joking right? so you're saying that 1.0 should have just, continued as it was? Diadem should not have been fixed and was perfect, our opinions as players don't matter and we should just shut up and pay out monthly sub? seriously? that's what you honestly think?

People wanted a fully implemented BLU that was true to or at least held the same spirit as BLU. that we could play in all content equally the same as other jobs.

What we got

-Gated out of 80% of content

-Level capped to obsolete dungeons and raids

-RNG based skill learning (Which is NOTHING like skill learning in other games)

-An instance just for BLU that is a solo experience only

THESE are what I am providing feedback to, this information that we have been given which is meant to be "Staying true to Blue mage". A lot of the reasons for these weren't even that they took feedback and wanted to give us a unique experience, it simply came down to "We couldn't balance it, so we did this"

Yes, you're absolutely right if this wasn't blue mage, if this wasn't a job people wanted to play, wanted to main, wanted to use as an actual job to go through story quest and to sit down and learn. Yes no one would be upset, nobody but they used a well loved and long asked for job and butchered it to fit the content quota until shadow bringers drops.

[Seraphor]

-Gated out of 80% of content

Actually, I've done the math, and we're only actually gated out of 17.3% of content.
Source: same as yours, my ass.

The level cap is raising, and there's no reason to believe we won't be able to run all content at some point, with the only exceptions being current and savage raids, and DF, which in itself isn't content, just a match-making system.

[AC9Breaker]

You're joking right? so you're saying that 1.0 should have just, continued as it was? Diadem should not have been fixed and was perfect, our opinions as players don't matter and we should just shut up and pay out monthly sub? seriously? that's what you honestly think?

People wanted a fully implemented BLU that was true to or at least held the same spirit as BLU.

I think there should be a clear distinction here between vocal minority and general consensus. 1.0 Was bad. This is a general consensus. The blue mage we are being given for FFXIV is terrible. This is an opinion from the vocal minority in this community who have yet to gain first hand experience with it. Of course it is a calculated risk because those minorities still matter. Because those minorities are more then likely the same people who helped keep 1.0 afloat and kept their subscriptions. We just have to hope that the Dev team is good at math, haha.

Also, this may be too anecdotal but as someone who's worked a lot of customer service I've come to the belief that 9 times out of 10 the customer doesn't even know what they want and you can usually make the decision for them. More then likely they will be happy with the decision you've helped them reach.