Quote Originally Posted by WaxSw View Post
You say Xeno is against that, he outright talked about the dps rotation should be changed
You say the hardcore community is against that, as someone that could be considered kinda hardcore I'm yet to find a healer main that does not support having our rotation changing
You say most people ingame are against that but when we get any community poll healers are the ones with the least satisfaction (and the majority would be indifferent)
You say the XIV discords, idk which because I've seen support on many as is well know that healer gameplay is shit
You say the XIV reddit, I've yet to find other than ffxiv which is known to be very adverse to even the slightest XIV criticism (and in some more serious like XIV discussion there is quite the dicussion and support behind it)

Almost all the streamers that were tone deaf were non healer mains which, to the surprise of nobody, don't talk shit because their income depends on being on SE and the toxic positive XIV community good side.

Once again this is a not us vs them, this is a collective of healers who are tired of our gameplay being the same of cookie clicker, especially when in the past we used to have much better gameplay and were able to do our duties as fine, if not better
My experience was mostly on twitter, where I saw quite a few posts adverse to the strike. Some of them were rather rude about it, too.

I think the main issue with the strike itself is, from what I saw on Twitter was:

1. There are a lot of super-casual players who mostly enjoy socializing/modding their characters/glamor, who honestly don't want any increased difficulty or pressure on healers or the gameplay in general;
2. There are some newer players who actually find the game challenging because it's all new to them;
3. Most people aren't healer mains and don't want to be inconvenienced by the strike;
4. Some healer mains don't like playing the other jobs, like healing enough even if it's a bit dull, so will keep healing because that's why they play;
5. In-game awareness from people who don't visit XIV social media have no knowledge of the strike, or care enough about the game to do so.

So I think those are core issues with the strike. But, as an awareness-raising tool it's been an A+ effort. I'd have a hard time believing that the Dev's are unaware of this thread at this point.