Take a step back and breathe.

[Jumquat]

I strongly feel that people need to take a step back and think over what the word disappointed means. A lot of people that are currently disappointed are getting attacked for being toxic because they are being wrapped up with the group of people that are making threats and demands (the real toxicity).

People should be able to feel disappointed. It's a natural human emotion. Expressing that they really wish SE did not go the job path they did that left an entire branch of players in a lull while others get shiny new toys is perfectly respectable. I hold nothing against them and I hope they at least wait to see the revamped mechanics live letter in may since they already said healing is getting a major overhaul.

Honestly when it comes to the debacle of the male viera, I can't speak for your feelings cause that is outside of my world. However I'm not going to hold it against you if you feel upset about it. I was more personally upset about no female hrothgar (currently fem roe and loving it), but its fair to be honest that if they have a female only race they need to balance with a male only race. Will it come out sometime down the road? Who knows. Is it going to kill the game for me? No, I'll just be a little sad about it that is all.

Flip side, people who make threats and demands cause of something they feel did not go there way deserve to get bashed. Especially when the game that has figuratively bent over backwards to get people what they asked for (that is within their time constraint/abilities). Remember when people really wanted some kind of marriage system that did not have gender constraints behind it? That wasn't something that was on the table, but they made it happened cause you the community wanted it. Tell me another game that would do that for you. Did you get it by threatening to take your money elsewhere, or call the staff homophobes and sexists cause its 2019? No, you got it via constructive criticism and feedback.

Yes I understand that the game has flaws, and I am not trying to white knight it. I just want people to be decent human beings cause they're right, it's 2019 and it's about damn time that some of those people shape up.

[Aomine1992]

Well you have to understand people's frustration...SB was honestly FFXIV worse expansion with no actually content and class issues that persist to this day! Now healers have a right to be pissed, not only can SE not belance that role for ish but we got two dps in SB that Honestly could have been waited on, now SBS brings a tank so tanks are happy and yet another DPS -_- but no healer for the second expansion in a row.

The genderlock has always been a dumb thing that locks people into feminine and masculine roles that they prefer not to be in especially when viera was not gender exclusive until now lol. So let people voice their opinions becuase SE needs to get their ish together before this is their last expansion

[Alucard135]

SB was honestly FFXIV worse expansion with no actually content

What? I have been playing nothing this whole time?...

[HyperiusUltima]

Well you have to understand people's frustration...SB was honestly FFXIV worse expansion with no actually content and class issues that persist to this day! Now healers have a right to be pissed, not only can SE not belance that role for ish but we got two dps in SB that Honestly could have been waited on, now SBS brings a tank so tanks are happy and yet another DPS -_- but no healer for the second expansion in a row.

To be honest, saying that Stormblood had no actual content is simply cutting out everything they have worked up to this day. They've only done two expansions so far for FFXIV, but to be honest their worst expansion was Heavensward, where job issues were VERY abundant considering how poorly they released 3 jobs at once and handled it. They improved a lot in Stormblood, but it just goes to show that they still need to reign in their jobs and reconsider where the power is; Healers especially! Our issue right now is that WHM is being written off by a majority of the raid community as a job that doesn't compete against AST/SCH because of the fact that the other two bring buffs.

SCH has been solidified as the best healer in the game dating back to Gordias due to their superior healing oGCDs and their fairy. SCH is exceptionally strong in that matter as they have more than enough tools to match an AST or WHM both with Chain Strat and their new job gauge mechanic. Let alone, their sole job mechanic is SHIELDS. Crit on an Adlo and Spread? Have a 100k Shield that can survive Delta Attack without Tank LB3. That's how strong SCH is with other jobs. AST completely overshadows WHM due to the fact that they actually have an innate aggro reduction. You remember how in 4.55 they reduced WHM's aggro? Well AST has had that since 3.4 with their sects. It's all in the cards and oGCDs they bring, and let's not forget AST can use any oGCD freely now thanks to the cast time reduction to 1.5s on Malefic. That's how bad Healer balance is right now: You aren't supposed to have a 3rd wheel that gets cut out, but a 3rd wheel that actually can match another job equally as much as the job that comes in 1st(SCH).

[Endeleon]

When devs have said putting male characters in the same exact bunny suit that they happily put the female characters in made them "uncomfortable" yeah I am pretty sure it's safe to call that sexist.

[Jumquat]

When devs have said putting male characters in the same exact bunny suit that they happily put the female characters in made them "uncomfortable" yeah I am pretty sure it's safe to call that sexist.

Next time I am at work and a female employee comes to me to do the lifting cause they feel they don't need to i'll make sure to let them know how sexist they are

[Vahlnir]

When devs have said putting male characters in the same exact bunny suit that they happily put the female characters in made them "uncomfortable" yeah I am pretty sure it's safe to call that sexist.

It's not sexist at all. It is them being uncomfortable with handling it. What may be "normal" for us may be off putting for them. They didn't abandon the idea either, they gave it to some of the female staff if I remember things right and they took care of it. That is not sexist either if they are able to look upon their creation and not cringe. How DARE people have different...preferences! People need to stop throwing the word "sexist" around so much when it clearly doesn't mean what they think it means.

[Jumquat]

It's not sexist at all. It is them being uncomfortable with handling it. What may be "normal" for us may be off putting for them. They didn't abandon the idea either, they gave it to some of the female staff if I remember things right and they took care of it. That is not sexist either if they are able to look upon their creation and not cringe. People need to stop throwing around the word "sexist" so much when it clearly doesn't mean what they think it means.

I don't even read it as that, recalling back to EU fanfest they brought on that one lady who was a character artist, and they had her do the designs on a lot of the dresses and what not in game not because the guys thought it weird for them to do, but because they were uncomfortable designing something they had no personal frame of reference on. So they logically passed it on to her since that was where a lot of her experience was in.

[Vahlnir]

I don't even read it as that, recalling back to EU fanfest they brought on that one lady who was a character artist, and they had her do the designs on a lot of the dresses and what not in game not because the guys thought it weird for them to do, but because they were uncomfortable designing something they had no personal frame of reference on. So they logically passed it on to her since that was where a lot of her experience was in.

That makes sense, too. I got a different vibe from them regarding the bunny suit which I obviously could have misread. I do remember reading this about that lady though.

[Hugowulf]

Didn’t think I’d see the day when pixels in a video game broke a lot of people’s sanity.