Quote Originally Posted by Turtledeluxe View Post
Imo this video in general was made either in bad faith or for the purpose of ego stroking. "You guys know I complain a lot so if I'm not complaining about EW it must be good", "I don't understand your problems with your Job bc you are just copying what someone else said". Bro needs to stop being so dam obtuse. I don't play the majority of classes in this game, I can (and have) spoken to players who have ideas for their jobs (like WHM) that extend beyond making healers a DPS class. He's acting like players have no creativity when that isn't true-- he just doesn't want to hear it because the jobs could be boring as all hell and he wouldn't care. He's hiding behind this "please explain it in a way I can understand" when he will never understand because balance and QoL etc are his barometers for success.
I want to add that it's not only on bad faith, but that it damages the discourse about making the game better. He says "Explain to me in a way I can understand and give that feedback to the devs", as if we aren't doing that constantly. What does he want, for us to do the dev's job in designing the game? The "Stand and let it resolve" dude at least had some points if not some flaws, I feel like this video does nothing but poison the discourse and criticism to just conform to how things are currently.

Zepla and Arthras usually are just broadcasting the feelings of the community, I have complicated feelings about the former, but she's absolutely right that the vibes of Endwalker are off. As for people like Xenos I just don't like their "Asmongold of 14" kind of vibe and so I don't listen to him very much. I feel like it's kind of arrogant to say that people are just parroting things they've heard from other people, you can feel acknowledged by what someone else is saying even if you cannot put it into words or give a big critical analysis on why there are design flaws.