On the Removal of Positionals

[W00by]

So much yapping I actually cant be bothered to read that post.

I pretty much only play melee and would celebrate the removal of positionals. TLDR.

Then there are all the people that would be playing melee if not for positionals. You are not the voice you think you are.

If you don't want to participate in a discussion about melee DPS, then why are you in a thread dedicated to discussing melee DPS? That's not really the own you think it is...

"I can't defend my position, so I'll just ignore everything you said." The ancient techniques of internet arguments are alive and well.

Regardless, you've helped me prove my point that we care more and our words should have more weight, since you can't even be bothered to ... read. And such.

Edit: Oh, and regarding that last part: I'm so glad you brought that up, because it's always fun to discuss.

The argument that there are a ton of people that would be playing melee if positionals did not exist is complete and utter nonsense.

Melee is the most popular role in the game. It's also the role with the most jobs in the game, but even if you want to go pound-for-pound, job-for-job, jobs like Samurai, Reaper, and Dragoon are consistently winning popularity polls and demonstrating census data comparable to other roles' most popular jobs, like Caster's Summoner, Aiming's Dancer, and even tank's Warrior. And this is of course ignoring the frankly titanic presence of Viper, which is the most popular job in the game (and maybe the most popular job the game has ever had). Square Enix is surely aware of melee's popularity, too, if they were willing to launch two Melee DPS in a row in Endwalker and then Dawntrail.

If positionals were scaring everyone off, would you be able to double Dancer's playerbase and still not even get close to the amount of Vipers in PF? Viper has the most positionals, after all. It's pretty clear, statistically and scientifically, that positionals are not a massive barrier to entry.

And hey, even if they are, maybe they should stay that way. Do we really need LESS aiming DPS players...?