Quote Originally Posted by ItMe View Post
You're right, but they're no more obligated to the job than I am.
They enjoyed the original design, but so what? That doesn't make their perspective more legitimate.
It's no more fair to tell them to play something else than it is to vaguely blame the rest of us for ruining "their" job.
I personally didn’t see any vague blame when it came to Garten’s statement—he was mostly just stating something most newer ASTs/ShB AST fans say: “I like AST now because I hated the RNG in HW/SB”. Which, fine. They are completely entitled to have that opinion—but he is right in saying that there were two RNG-free healers readily available.

Personally, I would disagree and say that players that have been playing a job for longer likely have more weight to their opinions because they have been actively playing the job. They know the job. Perhaps they even optimize/min-max on it. I truly think that the developers should listen more to them rather than the players that don’t actively play the jobs when it comes to job adjustments and feedback. It would be like me, who is not a DRK main, coming in and demanding the developers change the job into what I want it to be, and completely ignore the people who actually love and play DRK—and then subsequently telling them that they aren’t entitled to tell me to just go play something else that more suits my tastes instead of asking their job to be changed into what I want. I don’t offer feedback on roles that I don’t play simply because it’s not really my place, and I don’t think developers should take my opinions into consideration being as that I don’t play the job I’m offering opinions on (and I don’t think I could form a thorough opinion on it anyways).

People are allowed to give feedback. But I think the developers should listen more to those who actively play the jobs rather than the ones who don’t, or who just play it on occasion. And this is for more than just AST; it’s for all jobs in general.