Player and developer communication

[Connor]

If the devs are listening to player feedback so intently what exactly happened to healers? I don’t remember people asking for their entire playstyle to be reduced to literally a single button and they’ve never given any kind of explanation as to why we have insane amounts of healing output when every single piece of content outputs tiny damage amounts.

Saying ‘because we don’t want to stress healers with complex healing’ is quite frankly nonsensical because how can you stress healers with complexity when encounter design strictly forbids any kind of stress on the healer role anyway.

Or Bard for that matter. Yes I’m bringing it up even here

Last I checked literally nobody asked for it to be a high dps, middle-of-the-ground rDPS Dragoon style attacker (slight support good/high dps)who supports the party passively / through their own damage rotation so they can focus on their pure dps rotation and not have to spend brain cells on supporting anyone. Then when players gave their feedback that it was a dumb idea (nobody plays Bard to be a pure dps just like they don’t play Black Mage to be a support dps)…so they slapped some passive buffs they have taken from us back on our dps stances (aka songs), which completely ignored the point… and then they nerfed our DoTs in retaliation lol. Then this expansion they slapped Bards with Technical Finish to shut the players up. Which really wasn’t the issue; nobody asked for Bard to literally be Dancer. I mean I’m genuinely surprised Radiant Finale doesn’t give all affected party members a chance of generating Song Gauge for the Bard. It didn’t seem fair that Bard had to have its support kit demolished for Dancer to have it, while they get to run with utility that’s actually marginally useful like Waltz and Improvisation / Finish. And that’s not considering the multitude of other issues that have flat out been ignored for several expansions (i.e Warden’s Paean is basically an anachronism, Minne has been useless for a long time, Bloodletter which they essentially still haven’t fixed because half charges)

So I mean, sure, the devs do ‘answer’ a lot of questions. But how often do they actually give an answer instead of just skirting around the issue? There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that they either aren’t aware or just aren’t taking player feedback into consideration; they also very rarely give us any kind of insight into why they decided to do what they do (I.e healers). I’d say Bard too but technically they’ve already said that they hate the job and regret ever adding it to the game which is hilarious but absolutely shows. And I mean I can’t deny that it’s a genuine answer lol