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    Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
    This confirms my earlier Shadowbringers suspicions that the questions were pre-vetted and they were told what they could ask and what they couldn't ask.
    That's a bit of a harsh way of looking at it tbh.

    To quote Mr Happy himself:

    In addition, that would have been sidelined by a "we're overhauling our healers quite a bit in Endwalker so please wait a little longer for more information". I've done a few of these and know which questions are more likely to illicit a response he can answer.
    - Source

    It's pretty fair to say that he didn't want to ask the sort of questions that would either get a completely useless answer or worse, make SE less inclined to give him direct interviews in the future. It's not really fair to fault him for either of those points even if it did result in an unsatisfactory QA from our perspective.

    It's pretty much a given that the questions were pre-vetted though. But then that's a rather sad norm in these sort of things =/
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    Deceptus Keelon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
    It's pretty fair to say that he didn't want to ask the sort of questions that would either get a completely useless answer or worse, make SE less inclined to give him direct interviews in the future. It's not really fair to fault him for either of those points even if it did result in an unsatisfactory QA from our perspective.
    Respectfully to him at some point someone has to point out to the Emperor that they (i.e. healers) have no clothes and their systems aren't in sync with player wants (and they don't even sync with the stated goals of the developers).

    And it is extremely condescending of Mr. Happy to say that the only people who are upset with healing are people who are "overblown". I am not a serious raider by any means and even my casual @$$ can see that the system doesn't reward good play, it actively punishes it.
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    Veteran healers don't care if we need to heal, but right now we don't. We want interesting things to do during the downtime other than a 30s dot and a single filler spell that hasn't changed from lvl 4 to lvl 90.
    Dead DPS do no DPS. Raised DPS do 25/50% lower DPS. Do the mechanics and don't stand in bad stuff.
    Other games expect basic competence, FFXIV is pleasantly surprised by it. Other games have toxic elitism. FFXIV has toxic casualism.[/LIST]