Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
I don't think he needs replacing either. He's doing a fantastic job of pulling in money and keeping the ship running. Job design isn't a damning indictment on the entire process, but it is a glaring hole that needs patching. Boring cashgrab grinder MMOs frequently have half the job count and double the number of people working on them, and that's not an exaggeration.

The state of job design in FFXIV is painfully obvious to anyone who's been watching the team's responses to different controversies over the last few expansions. Read and listen to their takes on any given kerfuffle, and they all make perfect sense if you make the assumption it's coming from an insulated group of people who almost 100% play DPS classes, with zero interest in playing the other two roles (maaaaybe a tank enthusiast in there, but probably not a main). Boom, suddenly it all shifts into perspective.

"Healing is too hard"? What the heck, only to someone who neve....ohhhhhhhh

"Healers should focus on healing"? What healing, there's barely any healing to do. Unless you're a DPS main complaining about a bad run where your entire perspective about healing comes from *getting* healed instead of....ohhhhhhh

"Sage is the damage healer"? What? It's the same boring 1-button lame excuse for gameplay, you'd only think it did more if you hadn't spent more than five minu...ohhhhhhh.
This is exactly why he’s at fault though. He’s responsible for making sure each role has developers behind it and people actually play testing it. It’s painfully obvious this hasn’t been the case for YEARS. At this point i think it would take a changing of the guard to actually get things done for the healers now. I’d understand if this was the first issue in a year or something but it’s been this way for 6 years. He had his chance numerous times and he’s still fed us the same slop and excuses after excuses without even addressing the problem.