If you're unhappy with this game then unsub... forever.

[Jojoya]

The game flourished because WoW had a crisis and HEAVENSWARD and STORMBLOOD gave players enough of a good impression to share the success of this game.

It did NOT flourish because jobs were dumbed down in ShB/EW. Because literally how would a new player know about jobs being dumbed down?

It wasn't job design that brought the WoW refugees over. It was the opportunity to play a MMORPG that wasn't WoW. It was thumbing their nose at Blizzard by playing a "weeb" game. It was the raids. It was experiencing a game where the story wasn't an afterthought.

It's a pretty substantial portion of the WoW refugees that are still playing the game considering Lucky Bancho numbers now versus pre-exodus. Despite the complaints about job design from long time players, I don't think newer players are terribly unhappy with the job design.

^my favourite pastime is watching ShB and EW babies recommend improvements to the game that are literally just old SB systems they ripped out in favour of increasing how casual the game is

Bonus points if that person also argues the game is designed to be casual friendly

Which systems are you referring to? Not trying to say you're wrong. I don't read the role forums to have seen the suggestions.

The game being designed to be casual friendly is a good thing. MMORPGs can't survive if they're not (see Wildstar). If you want a hardcore experience, you're better off in something like Elden Ring.

Don't you need a sub to post here?
Man a lot of people seem to hate the game but they sure like paying for it

You can cancel a subscription but you still have normal access until the currently paid game time runs out. Refunds of unused game time don't get issued.

They are Japanese so there are some translation difficulties I suppose. And this forum is full of garbage that is probaby hard for them to sift through and find decent feedback. The videos MrHappy has been doing have been doing a good job articulating it and we know Yoshi-P watches him, possibly with youtube's caption translate feature.

Many Japanese individuals understand spoken English fairly well but have difficulty trying to speak it in return. If you watch Q&As, interviews, etc. done in English, YoshiP is already reacting to what is being said in English before it's translated. The translation gives him time to prepare a response while allowing Japanese viewers with limited or no English to hear what's being asked.

I know that MrHappy is not popular with many players so that may not carry weight with them. Another EN content creator that the devs watch regularly is Frosty with Mogtalk (this has been true for years, before Frosty was invited to do PvP tournament commentary). Frosty usually guides the conversation for his guests as opposed to adding his own opinions so the devs can see the legitimate reactions of part of the EN player base.