The New Sage Icon, Thoughts?

[Krotoan]

So please show me then where this global crisis was.

Global crisis? Their claim was

However, we soon received feedback from players all over the world,

and their reasoning was:

there's still time to change things. Considering also the fact that job icons are prominently visible in the game, and that they also appear on merchandise, we've made the decision to redesign the sage icon.

Very plainly: Some people from all markets complained, we have noted that not only is this icon visible in game and on merchendise, we are well within timelines to do something about it.

There does not need to be a "Global Crisis" to do something to accomodate people especially when time permits.

I’m genuinely interested in seeing other posts about people with this phobia who had it towards the sage icon,

Great. Ask the developers. Feedback isn't always on forums, or twitter or even public social media. When complaining about something , especially something personal that causes an aversion, most people are pretty tentative about putting that out there as public knowledge. Did you see what someone did IN THIS THREAD? "oh lol you think lots of holes is gross?" *posts a revamped sage icon with the most holes possible*.. yeah.. that's the internet!

and please explain why there were no comments like this about the LTW icon which has been in the game for 6-8 years.

I'm not a dev so I couldn't specifically say.. but I would guess that once there were complaints about it it had been in game for too long and is side-content that doesn't need to be engaged with to play the glut of the game. Also as mentioned there's not a whole lot of "letherworker" merch. Discipline of the hand jobs aren't exactly a focus in presentation and marketing for this game. I'll eat my words when the derplander intro movie has him flash change into tailor AF and hold his shining new relic needle up.

Also most played mmo in the world? That isn’t even true but…live the fantasy i guess.

FFXIV currently has the highest ratio of account to active player count of any Top MMO in the world,
https://mmo-population.com/activity

Why even dispute that? It's been the news for like.. weeks. "WoW the king is dead, long live the king" and all that.

I'm down to amend that to "one of".. but it's not like it's even below top 3 at WORST.