FFXI Players views

[Glamdring]

<--sneaks in mythic requirements into Glam's paragraph >_>

lol, yeah, I thought about that, then decided if I included all the grind I'd still be writing that paragraph next week

and good to see you bud. hit me up sometime, we'll go slaughter something and laugh over its corpse

[Spectreman]

We already have the game being cattered to elitists already, no need to elect one of them to choose what they want to keep ruining the game.

[Absinthe]

I am all for anything that improves communication between SE and their players. Polls/surveys, community representatives, smoke signals... I dunno what would work best? XD

You mean something like this?

The problem with polls is that they put out statistics that can be misconstrued...

At first glance, Question 3's results look to be an overwhelming desire for party-based play, but looking closely at the regional breakdown, Japan in particular has a strong showing of players who prefer rolling solo.

This is not necessarily true... I believe that people were smart enough to know what option they were voting for, but Yoshi P. used his crystal ball to scry a different answer. Even in Japan, 40% chose the option saying they would prefer to play with parties for 1-3 hours everyday... compared to 20% saying they prefer to play solo. (Also, these are disparate questions that should not have been glommed together... but the past is history.)

The challenge is that no two players want the same thing - we all have different goals when we sit down to play the game. That being said, SE could do a LOT more to make communications into a two-way street.

[Anjou]

We already have the game being cattered to elitists already, no need to elect one of them to choose what they want to keep ruining the game.

I know right? Personally I don't think we need to get a council going (Because that can just be ignored just as easily) if you want change -that- bad, organize a petition and put it in front of SE. They can't say no to a large majority of their player base wanting something to change.

[Umichi]

Polls and surveys would be a good way to differentiate the vocal minority from the larger opinions of the playerbase. Most players don't even bother with the official forums.

you speak truth my friend

[Glamdring]

They can't say no to a large majority of their player base wanting something to change.

When did this happen? ok, maybe they don't say "no", but ignoring you amounts to the same thing

[pretre]

this would work, if you gave each representative a gun and a plane ticket to SE HQ .

[Anjou]

this would work, if you gave each representative a gun and a plane ticket to SE HQ .

dude that was...a little much don't you think?

[Numquam]

I vote Draylo.

[OmnysValefor]

While its true that a lot of players never post to the forums in many MMOs, the case is made worse in FFXI because there is the overwhelming feeling that SE doesn't listen.

Go back to the early pages of this forum and there's a lot of hopeful posts and developer responses (usually saying "no", but at least there were reponses). More recently, we don't even get responses to a lot of fair questions.

Why weren't the RME updates in the version update forecast? Forget being priority, they're not even mentioned.