Can we please keep complaining about everything?

[Mistress_Irika]

My only complaint is the skill ceiling. Stop lowering every ceiling you see.
Even then, I'm not giving this as much attention as I would have a long time ago. The changes are intentional, and they are asked for by a certain group of people. So there's no arguing with the devs or blaming them. for anything.

[Alice_Rivers]

The changes are intentional, and they are asked for by a certain group of people. So there's no arguing with the devs or blaming them. for anything.

You say this but I've yet to see any evidence of anyone asking for the VPR change a month into 7.0 and nobody I can see wants the BLM changes, save for the devs. It most certainly isn't the raiding community, everyone I see and talk to from that group wants jobs to be interesting.

[xbahax92]

You say this but I've yet to see any evidence of anyone asking for the VPR change a month into 7.0 and nobody I can see wants the BLM changes, save for the devs. It most certainly isn't the raiding community, everyone I see and talk to from that group wants jobs to be interesting.

It's called inconvenience.

Designing difficult encounters? Inconvenience, lets remove it.
Job rotations on my spreadsheet not doing well? Inconvenience, lets remove it.
Difficulty/stress in my expert roulette? Inconvenience, lets remove it.
Our statistics show a certain type of players doing/using xyz? Inconvenience, lets remove it.
Our players engaging in a way we don't want them to? Inconvenience, lets remove it.

[HyperiusUltima]

It's called inconvenience.

Designing difficult encounters? Inconvenience, lets remove it.
Job rotations on my spreadsheet not doing well? Inconvenience, lets remove it.
Difficulty/stress in my expert roulette? Inconvenience, lets remove it.
Our statistics show a certain type of players doing/using xyz? Inconvenience, lets remove it.
Our players engaging in a way we don't want them to? Inconvenience, lets remove it.

As much as it inconveniences the players to actually engage in content and not just deathroll their way through it, I think that the developers are inconvenienced by how many players are saying everything is fine or this job is too hard to play, I'm gonna go play PCT or SMN because they want instant gratification.

That's a problem with the current gaming community: All it is is that they want to feel good about what they're doing the moment it happens, and when it doesn't? They begin bashing without any constructive criticism. You can look at it ANYWHERE you go - other RPGs, MMOs, or even just outside of those genres in general; you'll run into it more often than not, even when actively trying to avoid it - and it's bleeding into dev philosophy because it helps the money go up in the current market(to people's dismay when we start complaining about content being waited on so long or that "there's no content" in the game because some guy bumrushed through it and doesn't consider other alternatives than combat).

[Kazuke_Miso]

It's called inconvenience.

Designing difficult encounters? Inconvenience, lets remove it.
Job rotations on my spreadsheet not doing well? Inconvenience, lets remove it.
Difficulty/stress in my expert roulette? Inconvenience, lets remove it.
Our statistics show a certain type of players doing/using xyz? Inconvenience, lets remove it.
Our players engaging in a way we don't want them to? Inconvenience, lets remove it.

And despite what Yoshi P baits with "improved encounter design" or "improved job design", this will never change, because this is a low-cost solution to hook a lot of low-effort players and get reliable revenue from players who don't care about using any brain cells.

[Kisshu]

And despite what Yoshi P baits with "improved encounter design" or "improved job design", this will never change, because this is a low-cost solution to hook a lot of low-effort players and get reliable revenue from players who don't care about using any brain cells.

At times I really struggle to see "improved encounter design" on dungeon bosses. It seems to be they do mech 1, then mech 2, then mech 3, and after that just loop an overlap of the three. Makes them feel very spammy and repetitive.
And certain bosses such as Deadwalk 1 and 2 are just bad. Spirited Charge with a terrible netcode getting you hit even when away from the add, or the spinning tea cups that take up most of the fight. And then it's fun that it got the best third boss for the current endgame dungeons.

[Valence]

At times I really struggle to see "improved encounter design" on dungeon bosses. It seems to be they do mech 1, then mech 2, then mech 3, and after that just loop an overlap of the three. Makes them feel very spammy and repetitive.
And certain bosses such as Deadwalk 1 and 2 are just bad. Spirited Charge with a terrible netcode getting you hit even when away from the add, or the spinning tea cups that take up most of the fight. And then it's fun that it got the best third boss for the current endgame dungeons.

And then third boss is equally boring because it's a run of the mill boss design in modern XIV.
But at least you're not pulling your hair literally running through the first two so it feels okay in comparison...