Quote Originally Posted by HikariKurosawa View Post
They're leaving because they enjoy real life or WoW more and now have nothing holding them back from real life or WoW. It has nothing to do with the "flaws with this game".

It will be pretty funny when you see black mage become a commonly played job that has healthy levels of engagement in PF after these changes though. It was proven to be a failed concept just by the fact that it only had minority level engagement despite having such a strong and desirable fantasy. Why would anyone take a pre-7.2 BLM over a SMN/RDM/PCT in PF?
I'm enjoying real life myself, doesn't mean I got ff14 holding me back but it would be cool if I had more to learn and master in this game on my time off when I wanna enjoy myself, people are leaving because flaws with the game, you may not see any flaws your entitled to your opinion, but they for sure see the flaws and frankly it's hard not to see the flaws if you actually enjoyed some of the older designed jobs.

You may not know this but Black mage was actually pretty popular in Endwalker more popular then red mage in raiding, black mage has been a semi popular caster consistently the only reason your seeing less engagement with Black mage is because Pictomancer did everything it could (aka big damage) but better and with added utility.

The answer kind of speaks for itself people didn't wanna pick black mage because it was awfully underpowered you almost always wanted to bring a pictomancer over any other caster, Summoner also went down in play rate you know why? because people follow the meta.

If black mage had a actual place to be good then its pick rate wouldn't be as bad, maybe not as much as pictomancer because its the new fad, but it wasn't a strong viable option, you'll likely see some a few people move over to black mage, but a lot of players will just pick whatever is the best meta like they always have done.

I don't think it's good to appease a small amount of people who somehow found black mage too hard in dungeons or whatever so that the dedicated players to the job essentially lose that playstyle and have nothing else to look forward to.

I guess you'll keep making excuses why numbers show changes like this aren't good for the long run of the game even if the numbers keep getting worse then they already are.