A summary of healer issues

[Renathras]

Dream Fitting wasn't forced into the game by the mogstation lady.

The community was asking for a way to preview outfits on their ingame character because more often than not you buy a mogstation outfit only to find out that it looks god awful on your character or dyes terribly.

No, the management actually wanted to put Mog Store purchases in the game. Yoshi P said he didn't want any in-game connection to the store - a position I agree with after playing RIFT, TOR, LOTRO, and GW2 and finding the obtrusive store to be immersion breaking and annoying. But the executives kept pushing and said he had to relent and capitulate to them in some way. His compromise was Dream Fitting. I don't remember which interview or Live Letter it was, but Yoshi P himself was saying he didn't want to do it but his hand was forced.

You can claim the community was asking for it now, but that wasn't the point. The point was that Yoshi P has a lot of clout but doesn't have power to unilaterally make all these big decisions. He still is subject to the board. Even though he was given a seat on it, it's his one seat, not a veto power or executive authority to demand things like bigger pay for his team to be expanded.

EDIT:

What about asking a question about that in a future Q&A?

"With each expansion increasing the total number of jobs available, this also means it becomes more time-consuming to not only manage the balance between jobs, but also ensure they're all fun and enjoyable. How does your team manage this steadily increasing work load, and are there any plans to expand the team responsible for job adjustments to ensure every job gets the right amount of attention?"

That's actually a good question. Would support.