A Message to the Developers

[Greatguardian]

But then as I have mentioned before, what makes a DEV tag the right one to use? What's to stop people from using DEV tags for attention grabbing?

This has already happened. It didn't really end well. Tags were admin-edited out of the thread at least.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

This has already happened. It didn't really end well. Tags were admin-edited out of the thread at least.

At least they're somewhat on top of it. lol

[Cruentus]

That's why we post names, Tsukino_Kaji.

Seoha, Gamiina, Raelia, RaenRyong, Selzak, Kagato, and Cream_Soda are good at this kind of thing.

Now, regarding all the posts I missed while getting these names, get the hell back on topic already. God, I wish this forum had a private messaging system. Then I wouldn't have to deal with all this crap from you guys.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Everything I pointed out is a valid concern.

God, I wish this forum had a private messaging system.

Except it's not that kind of forum.

[Randwolf]

Since we're having an election, I would like to nominate Sarah Palin. I don't like her but she makes life interesting.

I might be wrong. But, probably not. This thread will devolve into chaos when people realize you are suggesting that people create a pool of individuals who S/E should pay more attention to.

[Greatguardian]

I'll nominate myself since I meet all the qualifications (The qualifications are knowing game mechanics right? Right. Okay).

[Hoshi]

We may know the mechanics of FFXI but that doesn't mean we know anything about game design. People have great ideas all the time but some of them are probably too difficult to implement.

[CrystalWeapon]

I sincerly hope they don't take a majority of these posts serriously. Several of them are bored people trying to get a rise out of others because they have nothing better to do with their time since xi is down. Another decent chunk of the posts are joke posts formatted as serrious ones and / or posts too rediculous to be taken serriously. Then there are the rare few that are actually feasible, but after reading through all the spam / joke / troll / rediculous posts it's hard not to have a headache.

I don't doubt that there are some people making suggesting that do know what they're talking about, but to say that we all know what we're talking about is a bit much. Some days I feel bad for the mods having to read through everything especially the 50+ page topics that end up as mostly just back and forths with trolls, but I trust that they know what ideas to listen to and what to ignore.

[Laraul]

I would just like to point out something to you.

We play this game. We play this game a lot. We know pretty much everything about how it works, and how that applies to us as players. We created the Final Fantasy XI wiki, which is now bursting with information on any given topic regarding this game. We even did some stupid things, like creating third-party programs to get infinite lines in each individual macro, take parsing measurements to see who did what damage when, how much of it, whether it was physical or magical, etc., but this was done so that we could understand the game as well as you developers do. Maybe we know the game even better than you do. We certainly understand what each job in the game is capable of, why that is, and how to improve the ones that are too weak, while balancing the ones that are just cheap as hell.

In short, this is what I am pointing out.

We know this game. We thus know directly how to fix it. You should trust our judgment.

Thanks for reading.

No... you... nor anyone else who "thinks they know all about the game" know nothing. Those who knew something would have the wisdom not to make such a statement in the first place.

[HFX7686]

Good lord, no. No no no no.

Yes, yes, I know. I probably should have amended that to supporting posts from good players.