I asked how her statement - which, no, we cannot ignore, or treat as only one person's opinion when she is literally in charge - can be reconciled with
She's not literally in charge. She's a PR person who communicates what she's told, but is worth her salary because she has the writing and speaking skills to express what she needs to express clearly, effectively, and hopefully with a bit of art. Other people are in charge of EA/CG, not Carrie. This is as bad as saying that Sarah Sanders is in charge of the White House in the USA. It's just not remotely true.
As for the question, I made clear that I agree there's reason to critique the rework. But Carrie isn't responsible for the rework, and I'd bet you 10,000 purple crystals that they didn't show her the math on the rework before she crafter her statements.
The statements cannot be reconciled with JKA's effectiveness vs. DR/Malak, but that's not on Carrie. It's on whoever is high enough up the chain of command that both the Devs AND Carrie answer to that person. How high up the organizational chart do you have to go to reach someone that can give orders to both programmers and Carrie? I don't know, but it sure as heck isn't Carrie herself.
Question the rework if you like. Incorporate Carrie's statements into your critiques to show that the JKA rework isn't consistent with what players have been told, if you believe that to be true. But Carrie doesn't control programmers or game balance and putting responsibility the JKA situation on Carrie in any way is wrong. And, if you didn't notice, I didn't call you out by name because I'm not interested in naming and shaming. Y'all are adults, and everyone in this thread with the capacity for self reflection can decide for themselves whether they have participated in blaming Carrie for a situation which is not her fault.
Honestly, Carrie should be your friend in all this. People could easily take an approach like this:
Recently Carrie told us X about Malak, whaling, & game balance.
We have noticed Y about JKA vs. DR-led Malak teams.
We agree with Carrie that X should be true, but we don't believe that Y is compatible with X.
Could someone with power over the devs please take Carrie's statements seriously? She needs to be told if it's not EA/CG's intent to create a game where X is true. And if she was right and you're trying to create a game where X is true, then please change Y which would otherwise be incompatible with that.
Seriously. Carrie is your ally in this because she's the insider who is spelling out a convincing argument for exactly what you want.
I, personally, have no problem with a JKA glass cannon. Different toons have different roles. JKA goes BOOM. It's what he was designed to do. He's completely useless on defense but stellar on offense, as a glass cannon should be. Heck, in most ways he's a less problematic glass cannon than Princess Leia who preserves herself despite her low health with stealth and a strong regen mechanic in her zeta. JKA just happens to fit well with a currently powerful meta-team AND performs the role of glass cannon.
But if you hate on JKA and want him nerfed, there's no reason to criticize Carrie unless you have evidence that she was handed information that contradicted what she said and then lied about it. Since we don't have that, Carrie is entirely irrelevant to the conversation and should not even have been brought up unless you want to uphold her as championing your side. (I don't think her statements actually do champion your side, but whatevs: you do you.)
So next time maybe think about who is in charge, and maybe when someone makes a statement that you can use in your argument treat that person with some generosity and respect, rather than making them literally responsible for the things you don't like even though the things you don't like come from the devs and not the PR shop.
