Quote Originally Posted by Zakuyia View Post
You know when healers had cleric stance and more dps tools the community cried and complained it was too hard to do both.....funny how the consequences and sins of our fathers work. Moral of the story. Gamers really don't know what they want, they think they want it,but they really don't.
Funny, I didn't cry and complain. Neither did other healers that I happened to know. I do agree that some did, however saying that it was "the community"? That's misleading in my view, and what was delivered didn't match what I would have wanted - we did complain when we lost a good number of our skills on our main healer at the time (SCH)- but didn't get much of a reaction at that time. Not until, that it- other jobs started getting simplified.

And putting up that trite "Gamers really don't know what they want, they think they want it,but they really don't" is a rather condescending view. Customers may or may not know how to tell game designers exactly what they want, but they often know what they like or what they don't like . Whomever designs the game is supposed to figure out the the solution, it's part of their job. It's also part of their job to find out how their product best matches whatever their "customer" wants/likes/needs.

We have often communicated what we want, what we like or don't like about healer design. We don't even have to agree amongst ourselves- although of course that would simplify things. What isn't clear - at least for me- is the healer that Square designs for, whether they have aver heard any of this feedback, and what the future is going forwards.