Square Enix please don't balance game to 1% player

[Gwenkatsu]

The new player experience is awful slow and offputting, theirs been so many players who quit because of how slow and long ARR takes alone.

I can only speak for myself, but when I started this game, the ARR jobs were definitely not the problem that made me question my decision to even play this game /cough/ post MSQ story /cough/

Otherwise I agree with the majority here - there should be easy jobs and content for people that like easy, and hard jobs and content for people that like hard. Personally I never liked BLM (all the 50 self-buffs you have to juggle with and how you loose them all any time a boss turns invulnerable, plays a cutscene, or whatever), so I did not play it. Was that a problem for me? Of course not. And if hypothetically speaking BLM does 20% more damage than any other class, and only BLMs get invited into hard content? I still don't care, since I'm not engaging with this content anyway

[RenegadeInferno]

Square Enix who pay bills ?

Not the free trial players, that's for sure.

But the game really isn't balanced to the 1%, I don't know where you have gotten that statistic from.

Has the job balance affected your casual play?

[Underscore]

Maybe they're talking about the bottom 1% of players, who the devs actually seem to be catering to. The elusive silent minority who thought that Viper was too hard and that Black Mage should be easy.

[Rithy255]

Maybe they're talking about the bottom 1% of players, who the devs actually seem to be catering to. The elusive silent minority who thought that Viper was too hard and that Black Mage should be easy.

I don't think the bottom 1% of players would even notice these changes, we got healers who don't deal damage still.

I think the goal is to make BLM more appealing from savage/ultimate where all jobs should just be easy so the only stuff we focus on is the DDR mechs.

Sadly I like job design and not just DDR so I don't think i'll be playing much more ff outside of just chilling with friends.

[CidHeiral]

All jobs must be playable by narcoleptic monkeys. All jobs must be reworked to appeal to the people who hate them the most. If they haven't come for your job yet, it's only a matter of time. Please look forward to it.

[Rithy255]

All jobs must be playable by narcoleptic monkeys. All jobs must be reworked to appeal to the people who hate them the most. If they haven't come for your job yet, it's only a matter of time. Please look forward to it.

I think at this point every job has gotten at least one hated change (apart from picto?)

Whats even left at this point that's fun or unique???? as a serious question.

[CidHeiral]

I think at this point every job has gotten at least one hated change (apart from picto?)

Whats even left at this point that's fun or unique???? as a serious question.

They apparently want the game to be in a state where every job is completely mindless and the only thing differentiating them are the spell effects. I have zero faith in this supposed 8.0 job design overhaul after seeing them do nothing but double down on the job simplification and homogenization every patch of Dawntrail.

[Rithy255]

They apparently want the game to be in a state where every job is completely mindless and the only thing differentiating them are the spell effects. I have zero faith in this supposed 8.0 job design overhaul after seeing them do nothing but double down on the job simplification and homogenization every patch of Dawntrail.

If anything the design overhaul will be
1. Auto combo.
2. Double down on DT Design
3. Remove most damage ogcd's cuz people sometimes forget to press them.

Please look forward to it. I do honestly believe 8.0 will be a big overhaul just another massive downgrade.

[CidHeiral]

If anything the design overhaul will be
1. Auto combo.
2. Double down on DT Design
3. Remove most damage ogcd's cuz people sometimes forget to press them.

Please look forward to it. I do honestly believe 8.0 will be a big overhaul just another massive downgrade.

"Every job now has two buttons: Attack (builds bar) and Big Attack (spends bar). Tanks also have Ouchie (damage reduction) and healers have Fix Ouchie (heals everyone to max HP). Now all jobs are accessible to everyone! Enjoy!"

[Rithy255]

"Every job now has two buttons: Attack (builds bar) and Big Attack (spends bar). Tanks also have Ouchie (damage reduction) and healers have Fix Ouchie (heals everyone to max HP). Now all jobs are accessible to everyone! Enjoy!"

We joke around but this is genuinely like how close we are getting at this point, the job design is so bland and awful theirs hardly anything to even take at this point.