Normalize criticism

[StormyFae]

Unfortunately a lot of critics can't seem to give an actual real opinion and instead drench their woes in hyperbolic statements and, ironically, call those who disagree with the extremity of their complaints by calling them trolls or white knights or shills. I have plenty of problems with certain aspects of this game and will bring them up if they ever come to be unbearable but that hasn't really happened yet outside of rare instances. Also a lot of problems folks have seem to be ultimately minor issues overall when compared to the amount of folks who didn't have problems at all with whatever the complaint was. And yeah I know that's not an accurate measure of good/bad but it's at least a stepping stone to see where to actually start the discussion.

And also OP, it's not much of a call out thread if you aren't actually calling anyone out. This reeks of those types of videos or forum posts where someone vaguely gestures in a direction and says "omg those people" without actually saying who they're talking about.

Shrug i mean smn is unbearable its eben a real ff summoner and blm kinda is unbearable its 78% cds and bearly any spells lol

[SilverObi]

Shrug i mean smn is unbearable its eben a real ff summoner and blm kinda is unbearable its 78% cds and bearly any spells lol

Have to take into account all the people who don't agree with that and start somewhere in the middle. Like to me, BLM is overall fine it just demands you know a fight to optimize while SMN suffers more from a solid class identity to me while suffering a bit from button bloat. I wouldn't demand a huge rework of summoner just because I find parts of it janky since ultimately I don't have the metrics, the devs do. If it gets personally impossible for me to play a job though due to changes, I would leave a comment or thread discussing my problems with it and see if it's just me or whatever before rolling into town all "SMN SUCKS, THE DEVS ARE INCOMPETENT, WHY ARE WE WASTING RESOURCES INSTEAD OF FIXING THE PROBLEM I HAVE".

Most of my problems with the game I discuss with people outside of here since usually it's just a vent, but also because it's really hard to have a genuine discussion on here for more than a handful of pages before it turns into a bunch of bad faith arguments.