#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Kacho_Nacho]

You're not wrong. It's clear from the forums general vibe that while they can tell an entertaining story, the devs seriously do not know and do not care to know how to balance the healers.

But that's really no different from every MMO for the last 25 years. There is always some voice loudly insisting that their specific niche of the game is so woefully underdeveloped that the people in charge of that aspect must have all been recruited from a Pizza Hutt dumpster raiding party.

And that 25 year thing, that's important for the context. Honestly.

We have been having these same, repetitive discussions for twenty *years* across enough electronic landscape to stretch to the moon, and yet some people really don't get tired of going back in for another whiff of that stale air.

I'm not trying to say discussions shouldn't happen, but my god man. Read the room. Drop your thought and let it be. If one thousand page megathread or a thousand three comment "I'm special too" threads on a subject are all being soundly ignored (in your opinion) then continuing to whine into a vacuum with no audience just makes you look stupid.

And you're not stupid, right?

I understand what you are saying. I really do. Yet, I feel that giving up and going silent is worse.

Our audience is ourselves too. We are sharing our combined experiences and thoughts; and by doing so, remaining a community.

A MMO ignores its community at its own peril. It affects their bottom line. Many developers thought they knew better than their players. Their failed games litter the landscape.

[Alice_Rivers]

I mean when the devs don’t communicate at all it’s easy to imagine any reason is the reason they don’t communicate

It's not entirely true to say they don't communicate though, they communicate through the action of endless buffs to tanks and content that does no damage, that communication is crystal clear. They just don't communicate with words.

[Kacho_Nacho]

I am super curious what you think can be trimmed from what class. Elaborate on this for me would you? What changes if tomorrow you woke up and you were put in charge of a rework for the entire healer cadre?

Basically, what Supersnow wrote.

Why do we have GCD heals/mits, OGD heals/mits which rely on a generated resource, and instant heals/mits on their own CDs, all doing the same thing?

It seems so unnecessary. We don't need full action bars.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

You must be new here .they only read japanese part of forum for feedback and stuff

I feel like it’s pointless trying to find out where do they even pick up the feedbacks when even their part of the forum also sometimes bore comments like “they only listen to NA!!”. Externals like 2chan? Don’t even have to try lol.

If that isn’t enough, any changes they brought in are easily dubbed as ‘community’s feedback’—WHICH?? Oh yeah nobody knows. For all we’ve known, it could’ve been some intern who had a complaint then they actually start sifting the any forum posts to look for that one comment with less than 2 upvotes but scapegoats it anyway by labeling “this is what you all want!” like they’ve implied when they got rid of VPR’s Noxious Gas even when there are other suggestions with 70+ more upvotes. Oh joy!

[Supersnow845]

“Community feedback” just seems like ‘let’s do whatever we want then when asked trawl through the forums retroactively until we can find anything that justifies the decision we were already going to make anyway”

Assuming that 4 upvote JP post is what was the basis of the noxious change there is zero chance you could have read that thread and not seen that that post was overwhelmingly unpopular even by JP “talk around the problem” customs

[ForsakenRoe]

“Community feedback” just seems like ‘let’s do whatever we want then when asked trawl through the forums retroactively until we can find anything that justifies the decision we were already going to make anyway”

Rather ironic that, the unpleasant sound we get when we place a microphone near to the speakers that it is connected to (ie, the mic is listening to itself), is called 'feedback'

[Qyoon]

This is probably one of the main reasons why devs look at this thread and go like " yeah never mind!"

They don't, the forum is mean't for the community to vent. It's some PR thing to make it look as if they cared.
In reality they are doing their thing and if we are not happy, thats the same thing.
In their opinion healers are fine, look at 7.2 patchnote, they are not scared of touching jobs.
They just really think it's fine as it is until at least 8.0.

[Anonemoose]

All my queues keep popping and there doesn't seem to be a shortage of healers. What's going on? Did you cancel the strike or are people scabbing or what?

[Veritas-Ancora]

All my queues keep popping and there doesn't seem to be a shortage of healers. What's going on? Did you cancel the strike or are people scabbing or what?

It's just a case of a ridiculously vocal minority making big waves on the forums and the general population not caring about this.

[Luluya]

It's just a case of a ridiculously vocal minority making big waves on the forums and the general population not caring about this.

It's really true that the FFXIV community is its own worst enemy. Players like this one cheering on the destruction of one of the roles and the players who enjoyed it while simultaneously wondering in other threads why the game is dying.