Do We Remember That a Game Is Meant to Be Fun?

[Aidorouge]

Its pretty easy to double check. The viper feedback that lead to the changes is right there in their viper megathread at around page 15.
"Too tiring, too confusing, too much staring at the hotbar"
I know i've read about rdm ranged melee and about giving tcj full mobility, i linked that to friends when i read about it. Was at the start of dawntrail in the ninja megathread.
It's pretty easy to check if you just scroll around in the megathreads over there.

I don't know Japanese so I have to assume people are being accurate when they say that JP player sentiment over there often matches the Western one more than some people might think.

Even if there are topics with JP players asking for those changes though, we still somehow end up with other topics from other JP players complaining about those same changes, so it's not like they're a hivemind over there any more than we are on NA and EU.

My point in general is that people are very quick to blame other players over Square-Enix themselves even though it's the company making and implementing every decision. I've heard of the infamous "post asking for Gnoxious Gnash to be removed with 4 likes" that some people use to blame ALL Japanese players for ALL job changes now and forever. Or how the last big patch notes had Square-Enix pretty much admit that "we're changing RDM melee because of these newest high-end fights" and you still had people screaming "HOW COULD THE MSQ ANDIES SPAMMING CURE 1 STEAL ANOTHER JOB FROM US!?" even though it couldn't be any more clear that no casual player (or hardcore for that matter) asked for the change.