Quote Originally Posted by Deo14 View Post
Looking at the results really makes me wish that SE would do surveys like this. In-game surveys which represent entire player base, not just specific community, which give you hard, factual, non-deniable data. Then they could actually start listening to player base, instead of listening to loud minority and/or listening only to the feedback they want to hear.

Just from this simple survey (which obviously represents only tiny part of the community), you can for example see that Dragoons are one of the most satisfied players at the moment (below BLM obviously), yet they're on the chopping block - I mean with planned rework. Meanwhile, all healers are around 5/10, with minimal deviation, which is unsurprising since they barely deviate gameplay wise. 66% of surveyed SAMs want "mini-rework". I wonder why.

They keep saying to provide feedback, that they listen to us and the usual sweet nothings. But even if they actually did, from where would they get that feedback? EN forums are half shitpost since nobody believes that devs actually read this. JP forums seems to use those dogshit chaotic mega threads with 100+ pages which make it impossible to pinpoint any specific issue. And I hope that they don't listen to reddits, since r/ffxiv is hyper casual and r/ffxivdiscussion too hardcore. Maybe r/shitpostxiv, that's probably most sensible community. Without in-game surveys, they're left to listen to only small parts of communities. Not like that's a problem since they only choose to listen only to what they want to hear anyways, but hey, would be nice if they would at least put more effort into pretending they're listening.
To my knowledge, Dragoon is receiving a rework not because it's flawed or unliked, but because it's perfect and there isn't room to expand on it without messing up that current flow, which I think is a difficult position to be in. As an MMO, there is an expectation to add onto it more in the future, and if they don't, a lot of people will be upset even though Dragoon is in such a good, enjoyable state. That said, Dragoon is one of the few jobs where the design team seems to respect its more complex nuances rather than see them as imperfections to be cleansed. While I'm not 100% confident that it will be a success, I have more confidence in Dragoon's rework turning out as a positive more than I have confidence in the Astrologian rework for example, or most other jobs that need adjustment getting the proper changes.