So you're telling me..

[ssunny2008]

Yoshi P is the director. I'm sorry but, what the director says goes. He will get suggestions if something he says goes against sane design practices, but if Yoshi says to make a class that only has 1 ability and does 1mil dps... Then they will make the class, or fire yoshi p. He doesn't have complete control over everything, but his word certainly goes a vary far way, especially considering he saved the MMO as a whole. So I'm willing believe that if YoshiP said classes will not be balanced by difficulty, then very good chance they will not.

I don't know how it works in other industries, but in the software/games industry you give your recommendations to the director/producer/managers, but ultimately the decision to do a certain thing is up to them.

Yeah he has to make decisions, but it won´t sit there like "Man... this class needs 100 DPS more...". There is no time for fine-tuning is this job. He has his trusts for sure.

And again, what´s the point in RDPS classes then, if it´s not the difficulty? That Yoshi is like "I don´t give af as long as my BLM is on top!" ???
Without a range-tax, there is no reason that they should lack behind in the raiding scene, but they do for a long time now.

Ranged Physical DPS have low DPS because they can attack from away and do not have cast times like the Caster Magic DPS, so they can move and shoot.

It's not a good reason, especially with how mobility has changed over the years, but it is the reason.

I would call it "easier to execute", "easier to play", choose whatever you want. So yeah, Yoshi is lieing if that´s the case, and i´m pretty sure, that everyone agree, that this is the case. There have been more than enough discussions about the range-tax.