Samurai changes are unacceptable in the current iteration

[KurenXIV]

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Yeah . . . it's clear they do not care at ALL at this point. They can make posts about a ping issue but not about the feedback? Here's how simple it is: "We thank all the players who are so passionate about the game and their roles within it. We have heard your voices in regards to the Samurai changes that launched in 6.1 and are looking into it". Done. No promises, no guarantees, just an acknowledgement.

I've fully come to terms that 6.2 LL will come and go with zero mention of the SAM changes and the job will remain dead. The people who want to be at the top of dungeon dps will continue to play it because it's braindead easy now but the general numbers will stay low and they will call it a job well done and move on to destroying DRG and AST next.

[xAFROx]

Yeah . . . it's clear they do not care at ALL at this point. They can make posts about a ping issue but not about the feedback? Here's how simple it is: "We thank all the players who are so passionate about the game and their roles within it. We have heard your voices in regards to the Samurai changes that launched in 6.1 and are looking into it". Done. No promises, no guarantees, just an acknowledgement.

I've fully come to terms that 6.2 LL will come and go with zero mention of the SAM changes and the job will remain dead. The people who want to be at the top of dungeon dps will continue to play it because it's braindead easy now but the general numbers will stay low and they will call it a job well done and move on to destroying DRG and AST next.

A statement like that is all I've been expecting from the devs since 6.1 dropped. Hopefully now that the housing issue has seemingly been resolved and the other hotfixes have happened and they even managed to adjust job actions in a smaller patch (albeit, pvp actions only) maybe now they'll address the outcry for SAM and, even more hope, take a look at the other jobs/roles that have been vocal for a long while too.

[Wyssahtyn]

They can make posts about a ping issue but not about the feedback?

not just any ping issue, one that's been apparently widely reported for ages (def not just since 6.1 like the director claims, at least for the wider world) and got ignored until i guess JP players recently started having issues. shame they haven't said anything about the animation lock issue.

[Roxus]

If YoshiP would put in even half as much effort as his most recent announcement regarding PvP for Job Balance concerns we'd have a much happier community. What a joke. Many things said in that post should have been said about PvE balance. This isn't exclusive to Samurai either, it's just a huge *----* joke how we're all treated.

Edit: Start from page 324 of the JP Samurai thread if you want to see reactions to the PvP announcement. I'd like to remind you all Samurai isn't the only job voicing their frustrations and rarely, if ever for some jobs, it being addressed properly.

[Karious]

I couldn't roll my eyes hard enough at the Black Mage PvP announcement. Really nice to feel ignored.

[VincentH]

Looks like we need memes in order to be acknowledged, as ridiculous as it sounds.

[KurenXIV]

Re: PVP balance adjustments post

I've never felt more deflated about the state of the game as a whole than after reading that announcement. It should be very clear to everyone that they aren't going to adjust anything about SAM or any other job that receives unpopular changes. We'll just be ignored like healers have.

Really upsetting but I've come to terms with this likely being the last expansion I stay subbed through. What a shame.

[ShanaShirayuki]

If YoshiP would put in even half as much effort as his most recent announcement regarding PvP for Job Balance concerns we'd have a much happier community. What a joke. Many things said in that post should have been said about PvE balance. This isn't exclusive to Samurai either, it's just a huge *----* joke how we're all treated.

Edit: Start from page 324 of the JP Samurai thread if you want to see reactions to the PvP announcement. I'd like to remind you all Samurai isn't the only job voicing their frustrations and rarely, if ever for some jobs, it being addressed properly.

"In touch with the playerbase" Yeah right. Could've easily made an announcement regarding their screwup with 6.1 as they did with this recent PvP patch. I read through those posts using DeepL and it's nice to see JP call the devs' hypocrisy out regarding balance and playerbase communication.

[AsiTsurugi]

"In touch with the playerbase" Yeah right. Could've easily made an announcement regarding their screwup with 6.1 as they did with this recent PvP patch. I read through those posts using DeepL and it's nice to see JP call the devs' hypocrisy out regarding balance and playerbase communication.

Probably too busy massaging their bruised (and undeserved) ego getting all the feedback they have been getting, either politely or aggressively worded. They have definitely lost any respect or goodwill I had for this dev team and I cannot care less how they are "hurt" because of the feedback. If they screwed up, they deserve the consequences of the screw-up, same as everyone that has ever existed.

Also how is it that "packet loss" got addressed only when it happened in JP when NA and EU have been complaining about that for months and years? How is it that this dev team is allowed to get away with behaviour bordering on xenophobia and still "praised" over and over again for whatever minor and less than inconsequential things they do?

[AziraSyuren]

It's wild that they actually found the Black Mage PVP changes worth posting an announcement about. Normally I'd be somewhat optimistic about SAM because they've never really felt the need to address balance changes outside of Live Letters, but after this...? Hoo boy, that is not a good sign.