#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Aravell]

None of us can answer why it was changed before- maybe it shouldn't have been. I can't say. But people are demanding change now, and so I'm asking what justifies the very non-trivial development cost of the changes being demanded when those changes are very likely to piss a lot of people off and may only excite a comparatively smaller group of players.

Let me make this abundantly clear for you.

You, me, everyone here, we are ALL a minority. The majority DOES NOT CARE. They played healers in HW, they played healers in SB, they played healers in ShB, they played healers in EW, they will play healers in DT. They won't care whether the healer rotation is 1 2 3 4, 1 1 1 1 or 1 2 6 25 87 635 1, they will play healer as long as they enjoy it because they don't have a strong opinion one way or another.

These people do not have a strong lean one way or another. We (you and us), the people who feel strongly enough to give feedback are obviously a small number.

Neither of us have the backing of this nebulous majority, you can't even say any changes would anger anyone either because you DON'T KNOW how people would react.

Again, say it with me, the community is not a hivemind.

[Moonjava]

Let me make this abundantly clear for you.

You, me, everyone here, we are ALL a minority. The majority DOES NOT CARE. They played healers in HW, they played healers in SB, they played healers in ShB, they played healers in EW, they will play healers in DT. They won't care whether the healer rotation is 1 2 3 4, 1 1 1 1 or 1 2 6 25 87 635 1, they will play healer as long as they enjoy it because they don't have a strong opinion one way or another.

These people do not have a strong lean one way or another. We (you and us), the people who feel strongly enough to give feedback are obviously a small number.

Neither of us have the backing of this nebulous majority, you can't even say any changes would anger anyone either because you DON'T KNOW how people would react.

Again, say it with me, the community is not a hivemind.

Alright friend, I don't know what I did to deserve this level of condescension, but your argument only strengthens my point. The vast majority of people don't care- as such, why should SE invest resources into reworking these jobs when it will only satisfy a relatively small number of players and will probably upset an equal amount of others? (Again, law of large numbers, some number of people will always be upset by any given change.) Game development on a schedule as regimented as FFXIV's is zero-sum. In order to redesign every healer job, they will have to make room in the development schedule to do so, and that comes at a cost of other content. If most people don't care whether healers change or not, what justifies cutting or delaying that other content?