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

[Cercie]

I will also go for the wait and see approach. Gamers in general are very emotional beings and having "callings for a crusade" aint something new or unique. Without going into details but obviously a lot of people have heard about the problems with WoW and Blizzard(both the game and Blizzard as whole) and there was multiple calls for boycotts, protests and etc. Rezult? In a weeks time, everything was back to business as usual and people arguing about the newest hotfix.

Precisely. And suddenly our community forgets all of the good our dev team has done when they don't get their way and throws them into the same boat. If this strike hadn't been poorly planned, poorly timed, and less of a petty temper tantrum in response to a video, I'd be on board for a positive change. But I know better than to put own concerns behind a strike created out of spite. They'd never get read that way. If people want to hurt their own cause, I hope they're not surprised when they don't get the response they want.

[Supersnow845]

Precisely. And suddenly our community forgets all of the good our dev team has done when they don't get their way and throws them into the same boat. If this strike hadn't been poorly planned, poorly timed, and less of a petty temper tantrum in response to a video, I'd be on board for a positive change. But I know better than to put own concerns behind a strike created out of spite. They'd never get read that way. If people want to hurt their own cause, I hope they're not surprised when they don't get the response they want.

We are complaining about problems that have gone on since ShB, not in response to xeno’s video

If you wanna grandstand that you are better because you’ve seen all sides then at least actually do some research

[Dimenital]

We are complaining about problems that have gone on since ShB, not in response to xeno’s video

If you wanna grandstand that you are better because you’ve seen all sides then at least actually do some research

youre just complaining for the sake of complaining. maybe all the healers should stop playing the game god knows it would be a much better solution than listen/read your constant effing whinging.

[gllt]

youre just complaining for the sake of complaining. maybe all the healers should stop playing the game god knows it would be a much better solution than listen/read your constant effing whinging.

You logged on and willingly read and replied
Rent free

[Dimenital]

You logged on and willingly read and replied
Rent free

lol yeah cause im sick of seeing every chronically online loser healer who has a complex, whinge and moan.

[Supersnow845]

youre just complaining for the sake of complaining. maybe all the healers should stop playing the game god knows it would be a much better solution than listen/read your constant effing whinging.

I’m not playing healer anymore, that’s the entire point of the strike, I’m a PCT main now

I’ll still talk about them here but I’m gone from them in game

If you felt the need to make a forum account specifically to tell others to shut up you might need some introspection but that’s not my prerogative

[Dimenital]

I’m not playing healer anymore, that’s the entire point of the strike, I’m a PCT main now

I’ll still talk about them here but I’m gone from them in game

If you felt the need to make a forum account specifically to tell others to shut up you might need some introspection but that’s not my prerogative

if youre gone from them then why continue to talk about them. seems like a pretty parasocial and obsessive compulsion issue. might need to go get therapy for that.

[Saraide]

if youre gone from them then why continue to talk about them. seems like a pretty parasocial and obsessive compulsion issue. might need to go get therapy for that.

Forum psychiatrists are back in action I see.

[Supersnow845]

if youre gone from them then why continue to talk about them. seems like a pretty parasocial and obsessive compulsion issue. might need to go get therapy for that.

Eh, I work in a job that gives me oodles of free time while I’m working and if healers improved I’d play them again

That’s the long and short of it, if you want to look into my “unhealthy relationship with internet complaints” then please go right ahead, I’m quite happy just doing my own thing

[Dogempire]

Precisely. And suddenly our community forgets all of the good our dev team has done when they don't get their way and throws them into the same boat. If this strike hadn't been poorly planned, poorly timed, and less of a petty temper tantrum in response to a video, I'd be on board for a positive change. But I know better than to put own concerns behind a strike created out of spite. They'd never get read that way. If people want to hurt their own cause, I hope they're not surprised when they don't get the response they want.

Your response just shows how ignorant you are to how long the healer complaints have been going on then, it's been an issue ever since Stormblood where they began to dumb down healers and remove buttons and lessen skill expression, starting with Cleric Stance, which, while I will say it wasn't a bad bad change and made the healer role more comfy and less stressful for skilled players, also began the slope of oversimplification of healer jobs into its lobotomized iteration today.

Healers have been complaining for YEARS about these very same issues and SE has refused to listen expansion after expansion after expansion.

I'm personally not striking and think it's pointless to do so, but the reason is because I've seen SE ignore healer complaints time after time after time and still continue to lobotomize the entire role. They do not care about job design being fun or allowing for more skill-expression, all they care about is making sure that the dumbest players are still effective at the role and making the bar to entry for healers simply being able to faceroll the keyboard and hit a few heals on their keyboard as their singular brain cell bounces around their spacious head like a DVD screensaver.

But at the same time I won't knock people for trying, for still clinging onto the hope that *maybe* SE will listen to us, and hell, I don't think the healer strike will work on its own, but I do believe that there's a possibility that they'll listen to healer complaints and actually do something if the backlash from DT causes SE to re-evaluate their formula and begin to actually start taking risks with job design, the story content they release, and modifying their MMO content formula to actually be new and exciting.

With how badly they screwed up Dawntrail, there's a possibility for winds of change to stir up and freshen up parts of the game that SE keeps neglecting or outright ignoring, or at least that's what I'm hoping