Contests for Implementing Player Suggested Content (Gear, Weapons, Quest, etc.)?

[kingfury]

Your title is "Contests for Implementing Player Suggested Content" which DOES imply that the winner of the contest will have the idea implemented. IIRC, with the fanart contests, it was the community team who judged that, not the devs. For this suggestion, even with the community reps filtering for the obviously unbalanced gear, the dev team would still need to take time out of their schedule to analyze the balance of the suggestions that get passed to them. The test server could not be used to analyze the various items, because that would take the contest and change it from being a SE-judged contest to a community-judged contest, which could be organized without SE getting involved.

If you take out the stats or the implementation of the gear, then it is just another fanart contest, with different themes. I don't think anyone would mind that. I didn't see anyone oppose the suggestions of fanfiction contests (again, community rep judges and not the devs) or creating designs for no-stat event gear. The devs would still need to get involved via creating the armor/weapons, but the winner could be selected by the community team purely based on aesthetics, rather than game balance. For this thread, it is the suggestion of implementing of player-suggested gear with stats that people oppose.

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Thanks for the feedback ^^

This is not a "Suggestion forum," it is "General Discussion" forum in the "COMMUNITY" section which means that anything you put here is open to discussion, and is not a direct line to the devs. The dev team doesn't even read all these threads; the community reps do that, and they might pass good ideas to the devs. People responding to threads saying that ideas are bad because they can see that it is unbalanced, or they think it is a waste of time, or they plain don't want the developers to look at something they won't enjoy. People have differing opinions on suggestions, and any positive or negative feedback is an attempt to convince the reps as to whether or not the idea is good or bad, or just a fun idea that, while entertaining to discuss, really shouldn't be added.

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Well, when the community team wants feedback and suggestions they prompt us to post in the correct place in terms of giving suggestions and feedback based on the content. If I'm not mistaken, General Discussion is the place for general suggestions about the game as a whole right?

The "thanks for listening devs" at the end of all your suggestions implies that you think that the devs read all your posts; while this is a mistake on your part in how these forums work, it is easily misread as arrogance in assuming that all your suggestions get passed to the devs.

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Ughh, how things like this get misread to this degree kills me >< I'm simply thanking the Devs should the post get passed to them. I not posting my suggesting to the community team to approve, but rather the Dev team, so I thank the Dev team for the opportunity to hear my concept if it does reach their eyes and ears. That's really all there is to that. It's like signing at the bottom of a letter and addressing the person you're sending it to. No arrogance intended at all.

As to your current sig, Ifrit in FFXI has a short snout, the omission of which makes the face look distorted. I personally do not like the image--just my opinion, and the reason why I think so.

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Understandable. I think I was working from a screenshot on that one, but it's understandable.

Not quite; it is fine to reply to everyone, but try to multiquote, rather than making a new post for each reply. You have up to 10,000 characters per post. There are many people on this forum guilty of that, and it is a peeve of many other people, as it is often seen as trying to pad the post count.

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I try to when it's only a few lines, but if it's paragraphs, it gets bloated real fast lol.

Nah, the pictures going with the ideas are fine, since they have to be links on these forums.