Quote Originally Posted by Router View Post
Japan.
Every stupid change generated by player "feedback" typically comes from Japan.
Nope, American content creators are also VERY responsible for stupid job changes, especially since two in particular who have interviewed Yoshi-P directly on numerous occasions were outright asked for their wishlists for MNK changes, said a whole bunch of stupid stuff that doesn't actually fix any of the problems that the job had, and got everything they wanted. Now the job is borderline unplayable for those of us who remember what it used to be like, and moved to Viper as the closest alternative.

As for Japanese players themselves, Japanese gamers tend to be very averse to complaining for cultural reasons, and are, on average, more content with what they get. Japanese social culture is often the opposite of what we see in anime; people are encouraged to be quiet and conform, not be loud and speak up.

The culprit is, in all likelihood, Yoshi-P himself. After what he admitted about his inexperience with MNK in the 5.4 live letter, a lot of the memes made half in jest about how the dev team prioritizes whatever he happens to be maining at the time to help him get through content without him having to do a rotation properly were absolutely validated. Naoki "I'm a white belt at Monk" Yoshida could not do a BLM rotation in SB to save his life, but it was his main, so it was made stupidly overpowered. Now you know why MNK changes always get ignored until the end of the expansion cycle - at which point it's far too late to matter since it's going to get reinvented next expansion anyway - and often what we get is something worse, with a cocktail of stupid ideas that come from American content creators who Yoshi-P treats as the voice of the English-speaking player base when they really ought to be de-platformed for the damage they've caused.

Viper, being a consolidated 4.4 MNK, is likely too much for Yoshi-P to understand. So unless we actually start seeing threads on the JP forums with players there - who often say the devs don't really listen to them, either - asking for Viper positional simplification (which, to my current knowledge, isn't a thing yet), the only person I could fathom who has an issue with it is the guy who admitted to being a "white belt" at MNK and refused to listen to any of us "black belts" about what we wanted, and didn't get until Viper rolled around.

Now, if anyone here actually can read and write in Japanese, and can inform the JP forums to take a look at what's happening here, that would indeed be something, but it would take something like a "Healer Strike" level of "DPS Strike" for them to notice, and as per the response to that from one JP player, I'm willing to bet they'll validate what I wrote above about them being very complaint-averse and putting up with it.