Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
I feel like "clunk" has become synonymous with "flavor" in FFXIV standards. Some flavors are bad, others are good, but FFXIV is all about removing all flavors without prejudice.
You can see this at work with the whole SAM Kaiten debacle.

The people who want Kaiten back have given a lot of varied reasons: Kenki management, nice animation, feels good to execute, makes sense, etc. Meanwhile, there are people who say they're glad Kaiten is gone because it's dumb and pointless.

And that's the main point of contention, isn't it? Something that feels dumb and pointless to one person is probably fun design to another, "One man's trash is another man's treasure" and all that.

That's why I think the dev team really shouldn't be gutting every job in the name of ease of use. After all, you can only play one job at a time. There's 19 jobs (soon to be 21), if someone hates how a job plays, there's so many others they can play instead of demanding that the job they hate be changed to cater to them, I'm sure at least one of the jobs would click (Well, they would have before all of them were stripped of flavour and nuance).