Poles. A Plea to FFXI Staff Before Updates.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

So "update" after "update." It's getting kind of hard to call some of them that. It seems that SE is having trouble sifting out what is an idea that supported by the community, what is mearly a farse or others that are nothing more then complainers complaining. So in responce I suggest this to the FFXI staff.

Before implementing any updates, issue poles to see how supported the content is by the community at large.

[Runespider]

I don't think polls are the answer really, they only get a snapshot of what the users here want and honestly it's not always best to implmenet stuff people want. If that were the case everyone would get full +2 and an emp by doing 3 emotes in a row.

I think the main problem they have is adding stuff that's cheap to make atm, they want us to keep playing but they don't wanna spend too much money or effort to keep it that way. Cashcow ultimate edtion mode.

[Malamasala]

Example of SE listening to the wrong people:

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Example of SE listening to the correct people:

Never happened

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I don't think polls are the answer really, they only get a snapshot of what the users here want and honestly it's not always best to implmenet stuff people want.

This is exactly what these forums are doing and SE is using these forums as a medium to create these updates. Is what I am saying is that before they arbitrarily implement them based on these finding, they should pole it to see if they came to the correct conclusion.

[Tamoa]

Pole =/= poll. :/

And noty, no polls. If something is important enough to the majority of the players/forum users, a post about it will get enough likes to get SE's attention.

[Zaknafein]

So "update" after "update." It's getting kind of hard to call some of them that. It seems that SE is having trouble sifting out what is an idea that supported by the community, what is mearly a farse or others that are nothing more then complainers complaining. So in responce I suggest this to the FFXI staff.

Before implementing any updates, issue poles to see how supported the content is by the community at large.

Your spelling is atrocious. That is all.

[Karbuncle]

Example of SE listening to the wrong people:

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Example of SE listening to the correct people:

Never happened

While the "right" people are subjective from person to person, I feel some updates most people could agree with would be:

1) Salvage Update. ("Chest" at the beginning, etc, made it generally a bit more bearable)
2) Ullikummi
3) Sky gods dropping more than 1 pop item
4) abjurations from other sources (einherjar)
5) Lowered requirement for Alexandrite (even though they didnt lower it a lot)
6) Increased Iceland Drop rates.
7) Improvements to Treasure Hunter
8) Multiple Spawns for Monster in Abyssea
9) Splitting of BP timers to BP:Rage and BP:ward
10) Skilling up from Bloodpacts
11) Last Resort duration increased
12) BP:Ward range increased
13) Sentinel update from being just Defense to a PDT
14) Addition of Blink/Stoneskin to SCH sub.

I can't think of any more right now but give them some credit... They listen to the right people sometimes.

[Rie]

I really did think this was about weapons.

[Yarly]

This is exactly what these forums are doing and SE is using these forums as a medium to create these updates. Is what I am saying is that before they arbitrarily implement them based on these finding, they should pole it to see if they came to the correct conclusion.

You're delusional if you think SE only reads this forum. Ideas come from the ENTIRE community, not just the tiny slice of it that post on these forums. The majority of great ideas came from OTHER forums. Yes, even the one that everyone here believes to be the hell of ffxi. In all honesty, people like you are keeping these forums from reaching full potential.

[Zaknafein]

Pole =/= poll. :/

And noty, no polls. If something is important enough to the majority of the players/forum users, a post about it will get enough likes to get SE's attention.

I'd caulk it up to laziness and the same reason why they didn't add multilples for KI NMs. Whatever that it.

I suppose we'll just have to "caulk" it up to laziness......