Quote Originally Posted by Yeastyloins View Post
I can tell you right now that healer gameplay, which includes what you do for HEALING and what you do for DPS is utter garbage at the current moment if you are good at it.
I disagree. But just as I prefer sweet desserts and my spouse prefers savory ones, what I find enjoyable in FFXIV may not be what you find enjoyable.

The central conceit of most of the "healing is broken" advocates is that other people play the game and enjoy the game for the same reasons they do. And that conceit is demonstrably false: Even among these critics, it's explicit that within their ranks are people who prefer diametrically opposite kinds of healing (e.g., no-DPS healing versus complex-DPS-kit healing).

Yet these complainers insist that healing is broken as an objective fact, instead of just being their subjective opinion. This delusion and the tendency to hyperbole that it creates is in my opinion the primary reason that SE should not and probably will not listen to these complaints.

If the critics can't understand why I find running SGE or SCH fun even though they don't, their opinion on what's wrong and how to fix it has no utility, because SE isn't making the game just for them (or for me, but I'm not complaining).

But rather than even try to understand why I enjoy it, many of these critics instead accuse me of being incompetent, or trolling, or whatever, none of which accusations have any basis in fact. Others do everything they can to silence me -- no doubt afraid that other people will see what I say is true. This attitude is yet another reason why SE should not and probably will not pay any attention to these critics, because an MMO requires compromise and accommodation of differences in the player base, and these critics have demonstrated that they are not disposed to do that.