I would like to encourage everyone to keep providing the feedback YoshiP asked for.

[DreadfullyAwful]

I would like to high some of the core points from the JP playerbase that I think are critically important

- Many speculate it was for newer players
- There are many posting for the first time because they don't want to be viewed as accepting these changes
- Does the developer even play Samurai?
- Allusions to job favoritism

I believe these are extremely important in highlighting the disconnect between the developers and the game. It was discovered in a interview with YoshiP for 6.1 that they were doing a lot of the healer testing in-house with developer who had very amateur experience. That and the fact that action bloat seems to elude BLM (the game directors main job) is starting to foster resentment amongst the community in regards to job favouritism.

I don't think it is unfair to speculate that due to FFXIV recently receiving a large influx of players over the last two expansions, that the job design mindset has changed to simplifying jobs so to not lose new players and therefore this new revenue stream. And it is this ignorance that similarly happened in other MMOs that began the fostering of negative feelings towards the development team and whether they were fit for the role, and if they truly have the player's best interests at heart (see Holinka and Ghostcrawler). Ofcourse, this will result in a loss of players.

This is a critical point in time where we should challenge the dev team, in the hopes that they reevaluate their priorities when it comes to their game design philosophy.