Quote Originally Posted by Foraet View Post
Feedback? Do you mean the forums? The forums are a cacophony. Most people just complain. The people who do give constructive feedback don't even agree. There are not even enough people here to be a proper sample of the userbase. Forums are just a funnel for people to complain who have one foot out of the door to have the illusion that the development team is actually listening to their opinions. The truth is most people won't notice or won't care about the changes. The ones that do will be over it by the time the next patch hits.
Well, if the devs specifically said to list our opinions and thoughts on the changes after trying them, in the official forums, mind you, then yeah, I and a lot of others are going to do just that.

And for the record, majority of opinions I've seen here all seem to be roughly the same few suggestions when it comes to some of the excuses we'd been given. Button Bloat can be solved by consolidating certain skills into one or vice versa, they can be retooled to alter other abilities under certain statuses. Action Bloat still exists with their change, so what did they actually fix there? Nothing. Crit variance in burst is a problem? Well, yeah, that's what rng is about. Not everything is going to be exactly the same, but SAM has always been about that heavy burst, so the solution is to flatten all damage to be equal across the kit? So our burst is pathetic and our damage comes from our general rotation now... cool, so we're just MNK with a toothpick, then. Awesome.

Feedback can be anything. We've all offered plenty of suggestions already in the first couple weeks. That is feedback. Our general thoughts and feelings on the matter are also feedback. That's getting repeated all over the place because we don't want them to think we've suddenly accepted the changes when we don't, so we keep posting.

If the forums aren't used by the devs, then why do they exist? If it serves no purpose when directly pointed to by the devs, then why is it here?