Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
Largely this.

I've said about homogenization many times in the past that the reason we have so much of it is that players asked for it, either indirectly or, in some cases, literally and directly.

With a lot of healing changes, it's because players asked for it either indirectly or directly as well. The reason we're where we are now isn't because the Devs hate the players, their own game, or Healing. It's because, over time, people have either asked for or demanded these changes. Yoshi P's exasperated "We thought this was what you wanted" after P5-8 dropped is kind of proof of that. They've done what they heard players asking for over and over - the 2 min meta, Tank homogenization, etc are also all results of this - and then gave it to them, only to be surprised when the old adage turned out to be true:

Players are REALLY good at identifying problems and REALLY bad at proposing solutions to them.
Blaming the 2 minute meta on players is fair enough.

Blaming the Endwalker healer culling on players though? Do you actually believe the tripe you just typed there? Are you Titanmen? Are you trying to revise history? Is Yoshida only listening to a very specific person here? Is he in fact your Uncle?

Who asked for Aero III to be removed?

Who asked for AST cards to become unclickable and by extension, who asked for Undraw?

Who asked for Selene to literally be deleted?

Who asked for Sadge to be a thinly disguised copy pasta number on SCH?

Who asked for our debuff kits to get deleted and handed over to DPS?

Who asked for SCH to lose key abilities such as Bane?

Who asked for AST to lose all of it's time extension kit?

Who asked for 4.0 Lilies?

Who asked for 4.0 SCH to launch without a single spammable AoE in it's kit?

Want me to go on? The material is endless.

Healing is in the state it is because SE don't have the manpower or depth of talent to do better. They have close to the same small team they had at the release of ARR but twice the number of jobs and a far less forgiving and monumentally more clued up player base to deal with.

Healers aren't homogenised because we asked for it 6 years ago. They are homogenised because they literally don't have the man hours in which to truly make the healers unique with the team Yoshida or his finance department wants to stick by.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ealer-designer.

That link explains it in more depth, but the TLDR is that SE's job design team is one of the smallest in the industry.