Quote Originally Posted by Valence View Post
BLM is a job that has never seen high play rates, and after the fiasco of DT on job changes for BLM, them adding even more instant casts is just the logical continuation of their reasoning. If they make it even more rigid than they made it already with the changes, the job will cater to even less people. Every caster in the history of XIV has slowly and steadily gained mobility over time. I don't see any reason why SE would suddenly backpedal on BLM, especially if instant casts are solving other problems like despair for them.
Have you heard of the New Coke disaster? To try and lure over Pepsi customers, they decided to change up the formula for Coca-cola to taste a bit more like Pepsi. What happened instead is that Pepsi customers kept drinking pepsi because when someone who likes pepsi is presented with a choice between a soda that now tastes 20% more like pepsi and just an actual pepsi, the choice is obvious. Meanwhile for coke enjoyers, the soda doesn't taste like coke any more, so they stop buying it. No one wins.
Of course, coke backpedaled on this hard, and earned back most of the patronage they used to have. **hint hint**

Why would someone who enjoys summoner play black mage because it got changed to be a bit more like summoner instead of just staying on summoner? Black Mage provided a gameplay style that is completely unique in this game, and anyone who plays it and knows how it works would tell you just how fun it is for everything to go right. Now it's slowly eroding into something unrecognizable that goes against the core principles of the job. It's not inherently bad that it had low play numbers, and that doesn't always mean there's something broken that needs to be fixed.