#FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE

[Aluja89]

Oh, really?

If they know which accounts main which role then that makes our strike even better. They'll see all the healer main accounts just completely drop healer. That's wonderful news.

And like I said, they already got you and you deserve every single bit of it.

[Aravell]

And like I said, they already got you and you deserve every single bit of it.

Uh huh, you sound angry, maybe go touch some grass. I'll continue doing the things I enjoy.

[SomeGuy22]

That said, just saying "SE, we're not happy with healing now" can be enough sometimes, especially if queue times for regular content become much higher.

This is not one of those times, unfortunately. A good chunk of the healer playerbase been saying that for years at this point.

[Absurdity]

Only Reddit post regarding this I could find:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/s/P6eTo3bNnH

It's the XIV main subreddit, known for only two things, people spamming fanart and praising literally every decision the devs make.
That subreddit spawned the "New player here, I played XIV for 5 minutes and am already in love with it"-meme.
Of course there isn't gonna be a single worthwile discussion regarding job design in that clown fiesta.

[Zaniel]

I'm just waiting for the zealots to starting harassing and decrying other healers as scabs and traitors if they refuse to join the strike, thereby leading to a sort of self correcting ban-wave.

[Zadood]

Yes and no. There are pros and cons to unsubbing. But there’s also an impact you can make while staying subbed. Being able to continue talking on here, the hotspot for feedback that the game directs you to, requires active logins. Additionally, by playing the game and queuing as a DPS or tank instead of a healer, you are not just taking away a healer, but adding to the population of other roles, which slows down that roles ability to queue if the population of healers is low. If you don’t have your healers leveled or properly geared, that also presumably counts against whatever analytics SE might have.

Unsubbing can be powerful in its own right, but that doesn’t mean staying subbed does nothing.

As amazing as your clarity of mind can be, I afraid we need some change in plan regarding how healer strike goes, due to the how we failed to garner any support from FFXIV sub, and they are not inclined to participate the strike, hell some of em even outright mocked us for it.

[Zadood]

I'm just waiting for the zealots to starting harassing and decrying other healers as scabs and traitors if they refuse to join the strike, thereby leading to a sort of self correcting ban-wave.

Not a music to my ear, but aye, I can totally see that happening.

[Ramiee]

theres been a healer strike since SHB lol no one wants to play them.

[Gemina]

It's just a warning that such strikes never gain enough traction to accomplish anything. Most players don't come to the forums or pay attention to game topics on social media.

The strikes that work are the ones where players close their wallets and walk out the door.

You don't get it. I have made it very clear that #FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE has a low chance of producing favorable results wherein the devs will change course. Of course, that is and always will be the end goal, but the smaller much more obtainable goal is to let players know that they DO have the power to not support the decisions of the development team. It's to give voice to the voiceless.

Every strike has always started with one person. This person is usually surrounded by defeatists who tell him/her that there is no point. That their cries will fall on deaf ears. But then one person joins them. Then another, and another. Each of them will still be told there is no point, and even be met with hostility and ridicule. Many of these people are confrontational because they feel like they are being pragmatic, when the truth is they have given up and/or no longer have the strength to fight. Very much like what has happened in this very thread.

The fact of the matter is that there is nowhere else for us to go. Even quitting the game isn't an option because the subscriber lost to subscriber ratio still favors the latter. I think it's like 1:3 or something like that. This will not hit the company where it hurts. Plus, most of us are emotionally invested into our characters. The longer we've been here, the stronger that attachment. We have attempted to provide the feedback. We have given the dev team two expansions of working with or around their course of direction. Some of us (like me) have even defended them and tried to harmonize the playerbase with those at SE and with each other. Yet, the dev team continues to hit the accelerator in the current direction.

A lot of us are just done. Not done with the game, but done healing under the current circumstances, and #FFXIVHEALERSTRIKE represents the collective voice that speaks it. I encourage anyone and everyone in support to copy/paste everywhere they can.

[Payadopa]

All for it.