Revisiting the 10 year roadmap

[Sindele]

I dun care if they don't like me. And they don't read these forums anyways.

Just tired of people squawking about "buh hard to balance buh" and "you don't know what they are thinking uwu they got so much data" when we ALSO have data through FFLogs and Lucky Bancho. Players aren't stupid. We're not in the dark.

Also Kaiten change was very stupid because it didn't solve any the issues they claimed to want to change, but altered the playstyle to Shinten spam. SAM still has button bloat and still has incredibly wide damage variance. And like... every job presses buttons... before other buttons... That's how rotations work. If they wanted to get rid of "buttons we always pressed before skills" they should remove the 12 from every 123. Remove Life Surge. Remove Reassemble. Remove Requiescat. Remove Blood Weapon. ETC ETC

Truly genius.

The problem is that our data is in the dark compared to their data.

Can you slice your data to break down the Kaiten usage of players that leveled SAM from at least 52 to 55 but no more than 89 in the past 30 days? What about those who did that in the last 60 and then haven't played SAM in the last 30 days? How about the Kaiten usage rates of players that attempted content above Extreme difficulty as SAM and then went on to not play it for over 30 days?

No. You can't. It's literally not possible to do with any kind of useful accuracy, FFLogs is a fraction of a fraction of the relevant data to a business. Player data sources simply are not complete enough. You and I cannot know what went into that decision unless they tell us. It is truly a completely different level of ability to peer into the practicality of what players do.

You can certainly argue that the result is silly, heaven knows I have. You can certainly argue with the lack of transparency and obfuscatory responses. But "hur dur they clearly don't play the job" is just useless clownshoes nerd emoji behavior. Gotta be willing to put yourself in the mindset of "why would they think this was a good decision?", even for the decisions you hate, if you want to understand them and how to avoid them in the future.