This forum is never going to work if people only post feature requests.

[Lafra]

Similar to BG or FFXIAH, I feel ppl should use this forum more constructively, instead of every other new post being about how we should listen to average joe's idea for a new feature request or game adjustment.

I would like to see more information about the game, testings on weapons, atmas, gear, NM strategies, low man strategies for existing content, etc.

It's painful to keep an RSS feed and every day see 10 new posts about how some guy wants an update to make chocobo racing better, updates to leveling low levels, transportation methods, or assault updates.

"THIS JUST IN" or "NEW FINDINGS" type posts would draw more users to the forum and just be a better read for everyone. Think about it.

[azjazo]

CHOCOBO RACING IS SERIOUS BUSINESS! (not sarcastic, love chocobo racing but server merges made it more dificult to win races as there are a lot of gold diggers with multiple birds racing to get you out of the first 3 places, good for competition but bad for your chocobuck balance)

That said, well, the requests filling general discussion is because theres no suggestions section like in other forums.

[Unaisis]

SE might want to know the average joes thoughts tho~ O.o;;;

[kaht]

You realize the forum is 2 days old now, right? Everyone is logging in to let their voice be heard. Give it some time and things will settle down.

[Lafra]

Should make a thread for Feature Requests, I'll do that now.

[Randwolf]

Should make a thread for Feature Requests, I'll do that now.

And it was locked.

I've worked at 2 schools that created their walking paths in 2 different ways. The first laid out beautiful paths that were symmetrical and fit the designer's plan. The second laid out very few paths and watched where the students walked. After the students had created dirt paths, the school installed walkways where those dirt paths were. The first school soon had dirt paths in addition to the ones they laid down.

In my opinion, it's better to watch where people want to walk and then lay the groundwork to make those paths more user friendly than it is to try and create the paths and end up with unused paths interspersed with the paths that the people created themselves.

[Greatguardian]

Except we're not talking about a path to get from point A to point B. We're talking about game design developments and their implementation. Students may all make a dirt path because it's the fastest way to get from one class to another. FFXI Players do not all want the same thing.

Many players do not care if Paladin is left in 2008. Many players do not feel the need to have underwater locales for battles. Many players are fine with Abyssea's level 30 entry requirement, RDM only getting Cure IV, FFXI having 10 year old graphics, and a slew of other things.

The development team taking suggestions from this forum seriously and implementing them does nothing but worry me. Why? Because, as some of the more radical posters have already noted, the loudest people will always win out. It doesn't matter if they have a solid complaint or not as long as they make 5 parallel threads on the same issue and <sarcasm> CAPS LOCK BOLD EVERYTHING </sarcasm> they feel they will bully the Devs into doing what they want.

While the FFXI Development Team and Community Teams have been working incredibly hard over the past year to increase the amount of communication they have with their player base, I do not feel this entitles us, the players, to dictate to them what they should do with their game. We are in no position to tell them what "The right thing to do" is, how to enforce their own Terms of Service, or what direction the game "Has to take or else it will die".

These forums are meant to, as I understand it, provide feedback on existing game content and explicitly announced planned content. They are not here for the Community Team to sift through 5,000 threads on why we need a Jump button. It's these guys' job to read our feedback, at least give them something meaningful and interesting to read. It's honestly appalling that we've had so many threads about "New Features" and "NERF THINGS I DON'T LIKE", but not a single one about the 5 simultaneous Trials of the Magian restriction. Priorities much?

[Sama]

Can't you low-man everything in aby?

[Greatguardian]

Can't you low-man everything in aby?

Yes? I have an Empyrean Weapon and full sets of +2 AF3, but that doesn't mean that being unable to work on multiple Weather Staves at the same time doesn't bug the daylights out of me.

[Aliekber]

It's honestly appalling that we've had so many threads about "New Features" and "NERF THINGS I DON'T LIKE", but not a single one about the 5 simultaneous Trials of the Magian restriction. Priorities much?

They've already said (I believe it was on the Twitter feed) that they don't like the 5 Trials restriction and are working to solve it, but I get what you're saying. I just wouldn't worry about that issue in particular.