The Devs need a much needed thanks!

[AwesomeJr44]

You do realize that the OP lowkey insults people who are complaining about the balance, right?

No, because they don't bother reading the OP, they just skip to the end and give us the same tired speech about 'toxicity' and 'haters' and that anyone who cares about the game enough to criticize it needs to 'step back and take a break'.

They're the critic police. Nobody's gonna dare say something potentially negative on their watch!

that is the most crazy thing to say. people are enjoying it which is fine but what about the issues that they having? Place it on the fourm. and beside if you think complain is bad then stop play a male miqote then. They never was playable until after a AAR due to people complaining.

Now to the topic. There are so much to unpack. What a lot of this boils down to is not blindly praise anything. Take meta critic on the day after post of ender walker as a good example . You praise when things are good, when things are bad we provide feed back. we don't just make a post to counter something and then try to say that that only 2% don't even know what they are talking about. While as we legit always try to do that but you know what? many people including yourself are the same one to shut down criticism. Take drk and living dead. People actually thought that was the best invul in game and it was planned. I can count how many time that i died because i planned using it and still died because of the healer does not know how it works. After years it finally got fixed after yoshi p said him self that he was not aware that this was an issue.

Yoshi and his team gets a lot of praise no matter what. When another game does bad, game journalist will always reference aar as a example to fix there game. This is a staple for alot. When he was at e3 i think? a lot of people cheered him on because of what he did to 14. We know they can do better, we want them to do better. As it stand they becoming to complacent. Not going to sugar code it. I do understand that yoshi himself is taking another part as helping to develop the new ff entry. We get tired of the same thing and things not being updated. Like apartments, like the characters, housing, glamour, squadrons etc. We bring these things up and guess what? many people will shut that down because they don't want to change. We get tired of them not explaining the changes. As you can see they recently started doing this. if you notice they add systems on top of systems that they never go back to update. Feedback to you is that you need to start asking questions to see why people upset.

The problem is that they don't consider the forums to be for feedback. They don't understand the core fundamental purpose of these forums.

The forums were invented for FEEDBACK, which in many cases is negative. This is not a social media website like Reddit or Twitter where you are meant to shower the dev team with praise for no reason whatsoever. Is it ok to praise the devs when they do well? Of course. I myself gave the dev team credit when 6.2 was better than I expected it to be. However, it is against the very purpose of the forums to attempt to convert the forums into a positive safe space for the devs. It is against the purpose of the forums to make 'positive' threads where you devote half of your OP to attacking people who dare to be 'negative'. The dev team themselves have gone on record saying that they want FEEDBACK on the forums. Feedback is not always praise. When the devs screw up balancing for a raid, the playerbase should hold them accountable so they fix it. Thankfully they have at least given us a solution due to the backlash, even if it wasn't the best solution.

oh God, this is going to turn into a "woke" or "venat" thread isn't it?

idk, the only reason this thread is still alive is because people keep coming in and insulting people with standards by labeling them as 'haters'.