#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[lilwitch]

I love how the argument is now becoming "but if you don't play a role you're dissatisfied with it ruins everyone else's game!"

Why should we play a role we're dissatisfied with?

That's the essence of this "strike." People are making this out to be us wanting to intentionally hurt the community. This isn't true. We're just collectively refusing to settle for a boring, mediocre job when it could be so much better, and are hoping (probably against hope to be honest) that the attention this movement gets will make devs think more about getting us back into a legitimate healing role.

We actively want to play healers. The problem is that that's not what we've been doing for years now. We're playing DPS roles (with both the lowest DPS and the most boring "rotations") that also have massive healing ability that just flat-out isn't being used. This is verifiable across all levels of content and the receipts have been posted throughout this thread. And we don't like it, so we're not going to do it anymore.

It is Square Enix that's "hurting" the game - and by extension, you -

This was a reasonable take up until blaming literally everyone who doesn't agree with you, which is plainly ridiculous.

I get that you non-healer-mains are upset that this is getting attention, and that Square Enix's design philosophy towards healers has pushed us to the point of taking an action that can have negative repercussions for you. But you do not get to decide for us. We are not your monkeys, and the fact that healers are subject to this sort of attitude in the first place shows how devalued the healer role has become in this game.

Ya, other ppl don't get to decide what class u play.
But you don't get to speak for me either. I sorely miss having more engaging decisions (and selene). I don't want less dps, I want less homogenization. I miss cleric stance.

I also unsubbed for long periods of time when I wasn't enjoying the game (and deleted my main). Active subscription count is the only thing SE really cares about and staying subbed while complaining on the forums doesn't constitute a strike, since queue times haven't changed. So it's simply loud minority compared to rest of XIV's population. Which okay, protest all you want, but don't also claim that anyone who doesn't agree with your specific take is hurting the role wtf.

Us vs them is stupid

[Amity_Roji]

This was a reasonable take up until blaming literally everyone who doesn't agree with you, which is plainly ridiculous.

I didn't do that. I blamed Square Enix. The part you later quote was me countering several non-healer individuals who had a "stop ruining my game!" attitude towards this movement. I am not blaming them for the current state of healers in any way - I'm saying that their attitudes toward our dissatisfaction is unacceptable.

Ya, other ppl don't get to decide what class u play.
But you don't get to speak for me either.

I don't recall doing so? My use of the collective "we" was intended to be very general, not a literal "every healer thinks this."

don't also claim that anyone who doesn't agree with your specific take is hurting the role wtf.

I didn't do that. Again, I pretty clearly state that Square Enix's design philosophy is what's hurting the role.

Us vs them is stupid

Agreed - so why are people coming in here and making it that, necessitating my refutation of their poor arguments?

[lilwitch]

I didn't do that. I blamed Square Enix. The part you later quote was me countering several non-healer individuals who had a "stop ruining my game!" attitude towards this movement. I am not blaming them for the current state of healers in any way - I'm saying that their attitudes toward our dissatisfaction is unacceptable.

That was how it read to me, but I'll apologize since you've clarified it. Sorry, lala.