Content creator irresponsibility in covering #FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Rekh]

I agree, most of them seem to have a disdain or even outright hatred of the community; extremely condescending and holier than thou. About time the community pushed back.

[Ramiee]

Funnily enough, Xeno had a fairly nuanced view of the strike with several good points, while Mr. Happy was just an asshole.

From the tiny amount of viewing ive done of Xeno, It seems his opinion is; "Healers need to get a full and interesting DPS kit because I like how OP Tank self-sustain is especially warrior and id rather they just do damage instead of healing. Don't nerf my role stay away from it."
I kinda switched off from him completely when he said Paladin getting Bulwark is broken because paladin has two party mitigation tools and the fact he advocated for Tank DPS to be standardised for all tanks.

[OliviaLugria]

Funnily enough, Xeno had a fairly nuanced view of the strike with several good points, while Mr. Happy was just an asshole.

I thought xeno did a decent job in trying to understand and then expressing his opinions. There were still a few misguided statements, but that's just the nature of not reading 300+ pages of arguments and opinions.

[PaulH]

I feel for the healers and I get it, I still scholar and wish for my old role but the game has changed and there is a lot to remediate. The content creators/influencers crave engagement, views, clicks and drama as it’s their job to earn a living and well I can’t blame them for their behaviour, attitude and mindset, it’s a living they’re trying to make. I am not saying it’s right but it is what it is I suppose.

[Voidmage]

Funnily enough, Xeno had a fairly nuanced view of the strike with several good points, while Mr. Happy was just an asshole.

This here so much.
Xeno has gotten really better lately where I generally like his content now or at least find it funny. At least he says if he sees problems and won‘t really comment much on roles he doesn‘t really play. He also can cringe on himself from time to time.

Mr. Happy was so damn rude with his blm and healer opinions, he completely lost me.
Dismissive is the word I get from him lately.
Healer and blm just makes it prominent but in retrospect it was already like this with some q&a questions with him.

Tbh. I only really watch Drak and his Nestvideos nowadays and arthas.

On topic:
I agree that most content creators don‘t do any research of the critique in their videos but at least under the videos of Happy there are quit a lot of comments addressing this issue to him. He just ignores such comments.

At the end of the day though, just don‘t watch them anymore. It’s way more healthy to just follow those who you like and ignore the others.

[Hakane_Mitsu]

Snip.

I mean, you guys creeated a discord server, you all have a raging hatred for multiple content creators in there (just sarch their names to see OVER 400+ mentions) and theese said content creators come in with the most luke warm takes that make sense and you lose your minds.

Even Mr Happy of all people said in his latest Q&A, no one cares for this movement, quicker you guys realise this, quicker we can all go back to having fun

[Striker44]

This was very informative and helpful, i'm glad i could learn more about the healer strike, it's taken sometimes minutes to fill in queues these days.

Umm...just to let you know, this is normal. Healer queues are usually instant (or almost so), tank queues are usually somewhere between instant and a couple minutes, and then DPS queues are usually a few minutes. It's been like that since the game started (and is similar in other MMO's that use the Tank/DPS/Heal approach). There are presently just over 1 million active players worldwide, with several hundred thousand in the NA region; the number of people involved in this "strike" is so minuscule in comparison that it's not having any actual impact. Heck, it's actually pretty normal for me when I queue for Raids that DPS has had the fastest queue...

[Rehayem]

I mean, you guys creeated a discord server, you all have a raging hatred for multiple content creators in there (just sarch their names to see OVER 400+ mentions) and theese said content creators come in with the most luke warm takes that make sense and you lose your minds.

Even Mr Happy of all people said in his latest Q&A, no one cares for this movement, quicker you guys realise this, quicker we can all go back to having fun

To quote myself:

I think it's important to remember the point of the "strike" is to call YoshiP's attention to the issues. 5 years and "healer feedback" threads have been ignored, and a "healer strike" has a catchy tag to it, which amplifies the problem even more. The strike doesn't have to work, it's just to make the devs aware they need to start looking into it, starting by maybe improving the encounter design and/or making healer DPS a bit more enganging (since that's the direction they're taking)

[Andevom]

Mr. Happy was so damn rude with his blm and healer opinions, he completely lost me.
Dismissive is the word I get from him lately.
Healer and blm just makes it prominent but in retrospect it was already like this with some q&a questions with him.

Yeah, Mr. Happy has pretty much always been like that and why I never paid much attention to him. His popularity is mostly owed to churning out guides quickly (sometimes too quickly), but nowadays people prefer others; you hardly ever see "Happy Strats" in PF anymore.

[Myrany]

I don't think it is content creator irresponsibility. I think it is them doing that which is best for their brand/business. They are there to get clicks which makes them money which pays the bills (and yes many of the big streamers have employees and offices to pay for}. Some of them have built their entire business around stirring up trouble no matter what they actually think personally. They also have a vested interest in staying in good with the game companies. What they are doing is entirely responsible when it comes to their situation.

Expecting "Journalism" from online content creators is just absurd. At least in NA it is. We haven't had unbiased journalism in decades and you could probably argue we never had it if you pushed hard enough.

All that is happening here is now people who read the thread will google who is covering it and give clicks to those content creators thus giving the content creator exactly what they want.

They don't give a rat's tail about the strike or what it stands for. In this and in all things all they care about is clicks.