Quote Originally Posted by Chasingstars View Post
I chose to be condescending as I figured you would have understood by now that players will use what works the best, and that personal victories often matter more to an individual than the more statistical truth of actually getting 1st place, which you agreed to.

Like let me use an offtopic example for a moment. Magic the Gathering, Modern Format. There is a deck called Rakdos Scam. It blows up and becomes the most dominant deck in the format that only loses to a mirror match of itself. It takes the parent company an entire 8 months to ban one of its key cards, all the while up to that point claiming the format, aka game mode, is "healthy". Like wow, that sounds messed up the game designers would just let something run a muck for so long.

Why bring that as an example? Just look at Dark Knight. Everyone day one of 6.1 could see it had a lot of problematic elements to its kit. But Square Enix does nothing to actually address the stuff people noticed, like the AoE effect not matching the visual indicator as just one teeny tiny example. It among other elements of the job are things have existed well over a year and a half at this point. And nothing is done to actually try and fix, the expectation is more so it will dodge another patch notes update for any potential nerfs that isn't a sweeping one like the duration of crowd control or the adjustments of damage reduction. As all that matters to Square Enix is Crystalline Conflict, if it is fine there, then surely it is fine in every other game mode to them.
If you figured you "choose to be condescending" in a reaction to someone who say that your argument is unclear, and could your clear up what may be a misunderstanding on their part, then that doesn't really say much for your having a good faith discussion, does it?

So I'll leave this at saying that I have no idea of where you drew the conclusion that I agreed to "personal victories often matter more to an individual than the more statistical truth of actually getting 1st place". If you want to extend " some players will form a premade because they have friends, like to play together, and like to win" to "players will use what works the best", sure I agree. Or, 'some players will switch to whatever job they think is meta", again- agreed.