I need to vent about FFXIV as a whole at this point.

[Havenchild]

Honestly I didn't even read past your first couple of sentences.

Why do you have resentment toward the players who give feedback on what they like and and don't like and not the developers who make the decisions on what does and doesn't go into the game? You're mad at the wrong people.

Well because it's the players complaining that apparently struggle to unite two brain cells to work in conjunction with each other that causes alot of classic instances to be dumbed down to rather insulting levels and then the devs keep this flow.

Devs should have never listened as much as they did to the whiners. It's part of this reason alot of this game has suffered over time. And its not only casual players but raiders too.

Raiders complained about difficulties lining up raid buffs and boom everything is two minute windows. Raiders also complained about hp pushes and randomize mechs which gave us a cool fight like T7 savage (or the regular version too) and instead we moved to predictable dances that cycle similar mechanics every fight for now like 7 years. Raiders are now doing the same with Picto in FRU. Trying to rob another job of an identity it has by utilizing downtime and wishing for it to be nerfed.

SE did better for job design to encounter design when they just did what they wanted instead of trying to appease whiners.

[Supersnow845]

Well because it's the players complaining that apparently struggle to unite two brain cells to work in conjunction with each other that causes alot of classic instances to be dumbed down to rather insulting levels and then the devs keep this flow.

Devs should have never listened as much as they did to the whiners. It's part of this reason alot of this game has suffered over time. And its not only casual players but raiders too.

Raiders complained about difficulties lining up raid buffs and boom everything is two minute windows. Raiders also complained about hp pushes and randomize mechs which gave us a cool fight like T7 savage (or the regular version too) and instead we moved to predictable dances that cycle similar mechanics every fight for now like 7 years. Raiders are now doing the same with Picto in FRU. Trying to rob another job of an identity it has by utilizing downtime and wishing for it to be nerfed.

SE did better for job design to encounter design when they just did what they wanted instead of trying to appease whiners.

I’m all for more interesting fight design but T7S is literally the worst fight this game has ever given birth to

Giving a boss 4 total health then making it so if you don’t push to the microsecond you make mechanics unsolvable is absolutely god awful, especially in a game that crit has such an effect on

[TaleraRistain]

Well because it's the players complaining that apparently struggle to unite two brain cells to work in conjunction with each other that causes alot of classic instances to be dumbed down to rather insulting levels and then the devs keep this flow.

Devs should have never listened as much as they did to the whiners. It's part of this reason alot of this game has suffered over time. And its not only casual players but raiders too.

Raiders complained about difficulties lining up raid buffs and boom everything is two minute windows. Raiders also complained about hp pushes and randomize mechs which gave us a cool fight like T7 savage (or the regular version too) and instead we moved to predictable dances that cycle similar mechanics every fight for now like 7 years. Raiders are now doing the same with Picto in FRU. Trying to rob another job of an identity it has by utilizing downtime and wishing for it to be nerfed.

SE did better for job design to encounter design when they just did what they wanted instead of trying to appease whiners.

None of that has anything to do with the fact that the players aren't the ones coding and designing and maintaining the game. They give their feedback. SE decides if they listen to it or not.

[TBerry]

None of that has anything to do with the fact that the players aren't the ones coding and designing and maintaining the game. They give their feedback. SE decides if they listen to it or not.

The "don't trust the players" mantra didn't come out of nowehere you know.
I bet you that given the tools to actually design dungeons and stories in-game beside TTRPG style 90% would be trash or some sort of scam. Or Both.