Samurai changes are unacceptable in the current iteration

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That'd be interesting. But I dunno how that'd translate given how the job currently is. Unless they do a complete rework of the job like they did to mch, which.. I think that'd be more damning than anything else given how vocal folks were the moment they mentioned kaiten being removed.

Big true here. The removal of Kaiten (and the addition of auto-crits, and the change to Tenka) was bad, BUT! if SE had been transparent about all of this, with showcases of what SAM would become and how the overall feel of the gameplay would be preserved AND it was done in an appropriate manner - i.e. not in the middle of an already-released xpac, but rather in the lead-up to a new xpac - then I think people would have been much more amenable to the idea of Kaiten being removed. As it stands now though, they did literally everything wrong. They managed to take a job with high player satisfaction and good performance, both solo and in a group, and gut it of all interesting gameplay elements, kill team synergy, crash both the skill ceiling AND floor into the sewer and all of this happened in the middle of an xpac mere weeks before the most-anticipated end-game content was set to release.

It's just such a series of errors that I cannot fathom how such decisions passed muster. I can only imagine that Yoshi P. is focusing more of his attention on FF16, to the obvious detriment of FF14. So instead of being met with a modicum of optimism and faith for the future, SAM players got kneecapped from out of left fucking field before being given vague promises of "something better" at some indeterminate point in the future. We lost many things and gained nothing in return, and half of why people have reacted so strongly against these changes is the way in which they were handled.