Stop making bosses Teleport to center of arena for every mechanic!

[Saraide]

Blame players crying about lack of uptime, missing a GCD, or missing a positional.

No I would rather blame the people with full control over how fights are designed instead of some malders on a forum whose feedback doesnt get read anyway.

[Atelier-Bagur]

No I would rather blame the people with full control over how fights are designed instead of some malders on a forum whose feedback doesnt get read anyway.

most of the decisions the devs do is due to player feedback over the years so if anything we can EXACTLY blame the malders for shifting the direction of the game's design to that. If you want things to change you basically have to out ratio the other people who want things to be different than yours. Simple as that

[Saraide]

most of the decisions the devs do is due to player feedback over the years so if anything we can EXACTLY blame the malders for shifting the direction of the game's design to that. If you want things to change you basically have to out ratio the other people who want things to be different than yours. Simple as that

So you dont think devs have their own vision for a game at all?

[Midareyukki]

So you dont think devs have their own vision for a game at all?

I think what he's saying is "They have a vision, but that vision is then molded from fan feedback, and we have several instances where fan feedback led to poor ideas being implemented".

[Atelier-Bagur]

So you dont think devs have their own vision for a game at all?

Of course they do, but they still listen to what the general majority of the playerbase wants and go with that as the framework for their decision making. Just because you think you're not being listened to, doesnt mean that everybody else's wants and ideas are not being listened to. The current combat design was years in the making based on what the audience loved and or hated what worked and dont worked. It was things like TP, and positionals, normal raids just being boss rooms only and making classes easier to play. These things didnt magically happen overnight, they've been slowly designing the game based on the amalgamation of feedback we give them and this is how we end up here.

[Atelier-Bagur]

So if we want the game design to change, then you have to convince a huge majority that these are "issues worth fixing"