Quote Originally Posted by Recon1o6 View Post
They absolutely can avoid these things. They could start by communicating with the playerbase again, a two way communication that is. Especially here on the official forums.
Then take feedback, and with official threads explain areas they are looking at, maybe get suggestions for alternatives, and then when the unfortunate happens, explain rationale and how they will improve later.
I'm not sure what happened but the devs stopped responding here sometime in late hw. Since then the game has notably slipped in several areas where it shouldn't have.
While I am not sure that actually communicating with the players would align the desires of all the healers that play this game, I would love to have someone from the dev team actually explain themselves. It beats trying to glean their intentions from their actions, of which I can't ever be completely confident.

Hopefully Friday we get something besides "look how pretty the new effects are".

Quote Originally Posted by Axxion View Post
here is the thing with that. If you cant find a group then you will create your own.
Indeed, and I did.

However, that has nothing to do with the schism that forms between those who aim for performance over all else, and those who don't have fun with that way of thinking. It at least seems to track how the community viewed AST cards and SE's shadowbringers response, for example.