Request for Better Dev Communication Regarding Job Balancing and Adjustments

[CrimsonGunner]

This post here is the proper way to go about sending feedback. It is fine to state what a problem is, lacing it in sugar or venom however ruins the feedback.

see previous post, tell me where healers got their issues addressed, did hrotager and vierra no longer need fantasia to change hair? did smn got more egi-glam, and the races new haircuts are the same quality haircuts for the other races?

nope but giving a 5 min explanation about 2b leggings and how it effects your behind is legit instead of answering about feedbacks.

[WaxSw]

The best you can do is submit your feedback to the devs in a polite manner. Then they will silently look at the feedback given, consult their peers about it, and brainstorm what to do with that information and whether its actually worthwhile.

At this point in time the devs do read and care. The more barbed the discussions get, the less they are likely to listen. Simple as.

We've been doing it my guy

For over 2 years healers have been giving feedback and complaints about their design and look where we are...

[Minarisweet]

Competition and player retation isn't a priority for them anymore, they don't lose anything by ignoring players at this point.

[Semirhage]

Live letters used to contain more thorough discussions about job changes. They weren't exhaustive; you only have so much time to go through things. But they used to contain more transparency with respect to balancing changes.

Then Stormblood came, and with it Healing Lilies.

We told them what a horrible idea lilies were. There were threads breaking down their effects, how they'd (not) effect gameplay, how they encouraged playing WHM in an unskilled and backward way, a whole treasure trove of feedback.

What we got in return was "nah just wait until 4.0 drops and try it out, you'll see what it's really like" followed by "we are no longer announcing changes ahead of time because players get mad over nothing".

It took an ENTIRE EXPANSION of them telling the players they were crazy for disliking the obviously asstastic lilies, and I'm still not convinced they actually understand what was terrible about them. They don't play healers. They don't care about the role outside it being girlfriend RP mode. They not only ignore feedback on the role, but they dismiss it whenever they're forced to face it. The reason they don't communicate too much about job balance changes is because they know healers are going to get pissed every time they change something, and cannot bring themselves to understand that the healers get pissed because they have a poor grasp of how healers play, not because healers are just kuh-raaaaaazy and get mad about everything.