Quote Originally Posted by DaemonInazuma View Post
I'm going to laugh if the guy that "reworked" SAM is like a new hire and this was his first task.

Yoshi-P-"Ok son, we need to make SAM a bit more accessible. Let's see what you got."

New Guy-"Yes sir! I won't let you down."

Fails completely. Insert Yoshi-P angry face.

All jokes aside, They are going to walk this back. They did a poll recently of the Japanese community for FF14 and like 5% polled play SAM. I imagine it is the same or more in NA and EU. The forums are blowing up as well as reddit and even streamers. Too much bad press for a game that has been overwhelmingly praised for its openness and communication with the dev team.

As a previous post mentioned, Yoshi was reading the chat and seemed visibly distressed and made mention to try it and they will be reading the forums. Luckily, they have a few patches to undo this, but I hate it for the guys doing ultimate in 6.11.
You joke, but I swear to god I got the same feeling, that the guy in charge of the SAM change was some rookie to job balancing who just looked at a bunch of spreadsheets, did a little napkin math to "balance the numbers" and then submitted his changes before skipping off to have a beer with the mates, wholly satisfied that he had solved the problem. It just absolutely reeks of inexperience and cluelessness.