Please communicate with the players regarding JOB balances.

[Roxus]

I've had multiple instances where respectfully/purposefully discussing my disappointments with others was met with dismissal and an air of, "Oh well; move on." Kaiten is a perfect example. People are often quick to disregard a problem until it becomes their own—until it affects their main. If they rarely touched healers or tanks, all of this had been dull (or irritating) noise in the background of their FFXIV experience. So while I'm saddened to look at the ghost of Kaiten on my hotbar (not to mention the loss of parrying with Shinten and other potentials for Merciful Eyes), if 6.1 was what it took to shed enough light on these issues to get more players' attention, it was worth something.

Many are recognizing just how much job identity has been diminished since SB. I hope to see more speaking up, but I also hope to see the devs meet those efforts with receptivity instead of dismissal.

Believe me I have always been annoyed at how the direction of the game was being handled since the later half of ARR. I wasn't loud precisely of what you said, I was also shot down and I was told to wait, because it will get better. It was also early on to a revived game, I had hope. There were obviously good points and things I loved, and still do love about this game. It's no longer enough and I'm tired of speaking to a team that has their hands over their ears.

When every single time a problem has been met with design, the answer is removal, and we're left with nothing. When the beloved analogy of a Theme Park tears down the thrill rides to make more room for storytelling rides, I'm going to be upset. When the vehicle to experience those rides have been replaced with self piloted controls for Bumper cars so you don't get hurt, or the race track. When the concession stands only offer three choices. I can go on, but people should get the point. This is no longer fit to be called a Theme Park.

[whitemoonflower]

Believe me I have always been annoyed at how the direction of the game was being handled since the later half of ARR. I wasn't loud precisely of what you said, I was also shot down and I was told to wait, because it will get better. It was also early on to a revived game, I had hope. There were obviously good points and things I loved, and still do love about this game. It's no longer enough and I'm tired of speaking to a team that has their hands over their ears.

When every single time a problem has been met with design, the answer is removal, and we're left with nothing. When the beloved analogy of a Theme Park tears down the thrill rides to make more room for storytelling rides, I'm going to be upset. When the vehicle to experience those rides have been replaced with self piloted controls for Bumper cars so you don't get hurt, or the race track. When the concession stands only offer three choices. I can go on, but people should get the point. This is no longer fit to be called a Theme Park.

"Just give it more time." And so they take a seat on one of those self-piloted bumper cars until it all becomes so mind-numbingly boring that they finally look up and ask, "What happened to this place? When did it become so monotonous?" They look back down and realize the car is functioning at minimum capacity. They look up once more and notice they've all become the same shade…indistinguishable.

Better to address things before jobs reach that state instead of quietly carrying on just to end up scratching our heads down the line, wondering what went wrong. I'm glad you chose to speak up.

[Jybril]

FIX HEALERS.
DOWN WITH 1111111111-2-1111111 SPAM.
PLEASE.
UNDERSTAND.
Obligatory Fix AST btw

[Faafetai]

The amount of effort you have to go through to find some of the hotfix changes and other changes to jobs are horrible compared to other mmos. Last I tried to find things that were not directly in the patch notes or news I had to go to job guides and sift through each and every job to see if there were changes. When looking for alot of specifics on bug fixes and other things you have to look everywhere. When playing other mmos they give you everything in the patch notes, bug fixes, job changes, known issues. Many of the patches from what I could gather just give you shiny pictures of new optional items, content, and other things that are something to be excited for, but I want a separate more technical break down of changes and fixes.

There could be a list somewhere, and I just can't find it because sometimes I can be a simpleton.

[Fukuro]

They actually do. They just tell you to go play Ultimate. /s

[MisterNublet]

FIX HEALERS.
DOWN WITH 1111111111-2-1111111 SPAM.
PLEASE.
UNDERSTAND.
Obligatory Fix AST btw

Done. We're removing Healer's damage over time abilities, so they can focus on healing without the added stress of having to deal damage.

Please look forward to it.

[Kaseladen]

Please, actually listen to feedback

[Rehayem]

We're gonna be on hopium for a good while, folks

[HisShadowX]

After absolutely no response when Tanks/Healers have been becoming slowly homogenized since Gordias and now the concerns with DPS classes becoming way too simplified. I'm done with Final Fantasy and honestly Square Enix altogether.

We are running into the same issue that WOW had where every DPS is the same, every tank is the same and every healer is the same. It's boring, and just saying "go play ultimate for higher difficulty" is like saying "go to your room, because I said so".

Whenever a system has a problem, it is removed instead of balanced. Enmity was removed and all the monsters are scripted so heavily now. When is the last time you checked your MP? You don't need to anymore... I don't want to play a blue DPS, green DPS, or red DPS. I want the complex classes that made the game interesting years ago.

I don't want to stop supporting my favorite MMO. YOU are turning us away from your game.

Please communicate SOMETHING with us. At the very least.

Oh your an FF11 fan from FFXIV 1.0 who was playing when the game was awful and had to be rebuilt. Surely they will listen to the players who stuck with that failed FFXIV 1.0.

[IdowhatIwant]

It kinda boils down to they had one chance to do it right n it didn't and now the trust is broken further.

This is what made Blizzard begin to fail years ago. Sadly FFXIV probably won't get as many second chances as Blizzard as to many people from here got burned on at already and won't do it again.

They apparently skipped over the samurai section when reading the patch notes to the JP community stating they would give a more detailed explanation later.

Oh your an FF11 fan from FFXIV 1.0 who was playing when the game was awful and had to be rebuilt. Surely they will listen to the players who stuck with that failed FFXIV 1.0.

WTF does that have to do with communication? Go back to your thread whining about housing, while complaining about weebs and pvp.