Here's why I will not support this healer strike.

[PercibelTheren]

Which 5-6 are swarming to intimidate those that are happy or like healer?

Some people are mildly salty in other threads but that's about it. Kathryn here is just another one of those people who get snarky and then act all hurt when someone returns fire. Nobody is calling people who like the current healers stupid or braindead. The only things being called braindead are the healing jobs themselves. Nobody is "ganging up" on anyone. Some people just can't take disagreement.

[Cercie]

I wish this healer strike is real, but seeing how I play almost exclusively healer and rarely ever get a healer bonus for DF, this strike sounds like fake news.

It may as well be fake. I still don't believe it will make a dent in the queue times especially at the start of the new expansion. It's misguided, mismanaged, and misplanned. The FF14 community is fully capable of getting noticed when they come together in a positive light, but piggybacking a strike created in response do a video is just not going to get the response they want. They just don't understand the stigma already associated with that. It doesn't matter how valid their reasons are if they're dismissed outright because of it. Yet some of them feel like they need to justify their reasons to me or say I'm ignoring things, when I only suggested they try to get their message out another way. I never said they were invalid. These people will be their own undoing. They want to be heard but don't actually listen to reason. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it if they want to keep doing the same thing.

[aiqa]

It may as well be fake. I still don't believe it will make a dent in the queue times especially at the start of the new expansion. It's misguided, mismanaged, and misplanned. The FF14 community is fully capable of getting noticed when they come together in a positive light, but piggybacking a strike created in response do a video is just not going to get the response they want. They just don't understand the stigma already associated with that. It doesn't matter how valid their reasons are if they're dismissed outright because of it. Yet some of them feel like they need to justify their reasons to me or say I'm ignoring things, when I only suggested they try to get their message out another way. I never said they were invalid. These people will be their own undoing. They want to be heard but don't actually listen to reason. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it if they want to keep doing the same thing.

Like the constant feedback healers have given for the last 6 years? Spending countless hours detailing everything that is wrong with the role. Only to get ignored by the devs and most other players.

But if you are sure there is an alternative that works even better, and isn't just a repeat of the failed attempts of the last 6 years that you can find in the healer subforum, I am fully supportive of your innitiative. When can we expect that action?

[CazzT]

If you're taking any job that can take a hit (DRG, BRD, BLM, etc), you're not going in without a tank.

The vast majority of content hits like a wet fart.

That comparison doesn't work. Not all jobs can heal others, but all jobs can take a hit.

[Ritsugamesh]

It may as well be fake. I still don't believe it will make a dent in the queue times especially at the start of the new expansion. It's misguided, mismanaged, and misplanned. The FF14 community is fully capable of getting noticed when they come together in a positive light, but piggybacking a strike created in response do a video is just not going to get the response they want. They just don't understand the stigma already associated with that. It doesn't matter how valid their reasons are if they're dismissed outright because of it. Yet some of them feel like they need to justify their reasons to me or say I'm ignoring things, when I only suggested they try to get their message out another way. I never said they were invalid. These people will be their own undoing. They want to be heard but don't actually listen to reason. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it if they want to keep doing the same thing.

Yeah like... Have you ever been on the internet? Healers trying to give positively constructed feedback for years is all over the shop. It's in the forums all over the place - go take one step in the healer forums and see for yourself. Here's a 180 page 4 year old post from a cursory glance. It's on reddit. It's in podcasts. It's discussed by personalities in the community.

The strike itself is both worded carefully and incredibly respectfully, all things considered. Plus, you really have no right to cast judgement on how people choose to play the game. Whether someone actively opts not to player healer through coordinated action or they just don't queue healer because they think it's grim - the result is the same.

Nobody is forcing you to take part and nobody has been uncivil. If you genuinely think this begun from Xeno doing a dungeon without a healer, you haven't played the game. It's been going on for years and years and is getting worse as time goes by.

[FuwafuwaMii]

The healer strike, and much else are pretty much contained here. The forum is an echo chamber. Loud, but not at all representative of the player base at large.

[MarianneviBrittania]

Without Yoshi P at the helm, FF14 would be in trouble because SE has many issues that have lead it into near financial ruin multiple times.

Jesus Christ. That you're one of the ones who think Yoshi-P and Final Fantasy XIV are single-handedly keeping Square Enix financially afloat essentially blows all of your credibility completely out of the water. I mean, this man just finished helming Final Fantasy XVI for f's sake, and that entry is amongst the myriad reasons why the recent SE financials reported significant deficits lol.

How can anyone expect someone who believes something so blatantly inaccurate to keep adequate hold of any degree of actual facts?

On a slightly more on topick note, while I do not oppose it from an ideologickal perspective nor believe it 'in bad faith' or 'misguided' I sadly do not imagine the Healer Strike is actually gonna accomplish anything. Call me a cynick I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[aiqa]

The healer strike, and much else are pretty much contained here. The forum is an echo chamber. Loud, but not at all representative of the player base at large.

The devs explicitly ask player to give feedback about the game on this forum. There is no requirement for that feedback to be representative of the opinions of the playerbase at large. Pointing out we don't know the opinions of a few million other people adds or detracts nothing to that feedback.

If you feel the devs need a better way to collect feedback, you are free to provide them some suggestions. You can provide that feedback on this website.

[Supersnow845]

Maybe if square enix has such robust methods of collecting data that they truly know exactly what the playerbase wants then they should be sharing that with us and being more open about their design methods because if there is one thing that unifies all listening posts opinions right now (even shitter) it’s the fact that square’s recent decisions and design direction don’t seem to align with anyone’s feedback (here and discussion sub don’t like the direction the game is going as a collective, mainsub didn’t like the job changes and is weirdly angry at the jazz choice for the city BGM, shitter doesn’t like the character graphics update and Facebook doesn’t really like the MSQ)

Everyone seems to believe that feedback is drawn from somewhere else so people are pretty unified on feeling like feedback is not acted on

[Wildheaven182]

Bottom line, play what you enjoy.
Healer strike is a wake up call saying, hey, are you actually enjoying healer? Or just instant queues? You should expect more for how expensive and time consuming the game is. Play a dps or something and realize how much more fun it is, at least until they get simplified into oblivion.
I want to play a different game, myself. Dawntrail not hitting for me so see ya in 8.0.