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

[Tamoa]

This:

Even if the development team did decide to lean heavily on someones suggestion, if it wasn't exactly what the person suggested full on NERD RAGE would ensue.

and this:

This is a terrible idea. Fan art and fiction, sure, but stuff this is too complicated and difficult for players to do.

Not to mention if all ideas get turned down and then later something is implemented into the game that's somewhat similar to a player's previous suggestion - "OMG SE STOLE MY IDEA BAWWW!" - incoming nerd rage again.

Huh? Abyssea adjustments, new warp Npcs, higher Fellow Npc levels, Gear augments via Synergy(stage 1), Atma infusement menu additions, better skill up options, new porter moogles storage options, more inventory space (moogle sack), etc, etc. all came from player based suggestions.

Now compare those things to the amount of completely useless/pointless/worthless/crappy/downright stupid ideas posted by players on this forum. I think you will find that the latter outweighs the former by a lot.

Let the players stick to posting their ideas here. If it's anything useful for the majority of the playerbase, and not impossible to implement into the game, chances are SE just might listen.