#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Donto]

If healers were plentiful as a baseline I might agree with you,

they're not, the strike itself might not have that much of an effect but by that logic neither will the gotcha "thanks for the healer queues nerd" people matter. It's also gotten huge amounts of attention from people like you, which is extremely valuable at reaching the developers, the people that very much do matter.

It hasn't started yet and it's been a decisive victory at drawing attention to long running issues.

Attention has no worth, the player base still has to decide that they are willing to give up leveling and playing any healer roles.
For what it's worth, I hope you are right. I hope that the baseline number of healers is low enough that it can drop below whatever amount the developers deem acceptable, and they feel pressure to make real changes. I would be very pleasantly surprised if it happens.

[Eorzean_username]

Attention has no worth, the player base still has to decide that they are willing to give up leveling and playing any healer roles.

You're not making unreasonable points, but then also remember examples such as Kaiten being removed while (I'm pretty sure) Samurai was already the most-played Melee DPS.

Population data definitely seems to have an influence (for example, "Babe, wake up! It's been 3 months! Time for the Monk rework!"), but apparently CBU3 can also absorb mysterious invisible feedback rays about Kaiten from active and subscribed Samurai, so banging pots with spoons enough to get onto the radar of broader social-media / "gaming journalism" / "content" "creators" might have as much of a chance of working as anything else.

At the very least, it might alter the Producer/Director's coping mechanism from "Let's offer them platitudes and try to ignore it, Healers are usually very polite and will just stay inside their complaint threads" to "Oh no, this is creating bad press".

[Donto]

You're not making unreasonable points, but then also remember examples such as Kaiten being removed while (I'm pretty sure) Samurai was already the most-played Melee DPS.

Population data definitely seems to have an influence (for example, "Babe, wake up! It's been 3 months! Time for the Monk rework!"), but apparently CBU3 can also absorb mysterious invisible feedback rays about Kaiten from active and subscribed Samurai, so banging pots with spoons enough to get onto the radar of broader social-media / "gaming journalism" / "content" "creators" might have as much of a chance of working as anything else.

At the very least, it might alter the Producer/Director's coping mechanism from "Let's offer them platitudes and try to ignore it, Healers are usually very polite and will just stay inside their complaint threads" to "Oh no, this is creating bad press".

I hope you find the mysterious invisible feedback rays that you need so the dev team actually listens this time. I'm going to stop playing any healers.

[Kes13a]

Attention has no worth, the player base still has to decide that they are willing to give up leveling and playing any healer roles.

we can still level healer, we just are not participating in group content such as roulettes.