Linkshell Community Site Maintenance

[Demon6324236]

The only reason people care is for AH.com, a community site, this is as close to support as any community site has ever gotten from SE so far as I know, so by all means, I think its a good idea to fix it, or even improve it for people to make use of.

[Alhanelem]

Dear Yoji Fujito and Akihiko Matsui,

Relax. You can terminate the LS Community site. It's not worth the time, manpower, or money. Please redirect your staff and our subscription fees to improving game content.

Sincerely,
Edyth
And all the people who like this post

Actually, the site is a very valuable feature... just not for the reasons for which it was originally created.

That being said, the producer posts make me think of just how much organizational issues could be impeding the game's development...

[Thala]

Just to reinforce the sentiment, I imagine an extreme minority of players actually care about the Linkshell Community. For most of us, all we want is an effectively public means of sharing our character data without having to do so manually.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Just to reinforce the sentiment, I imagine an extreme minority of players actually care about the Linkshell Community.

The same could be said about R/M/E 99 holders.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

XIV was written from the ground up to have the Lodestone site and other such external web integration. XI was not written with a Linkshell Community in mind.

[Alhanelem]

Which is why it was basically a huge hack job and why there isn't any one person at SE who knows entirely how it works (lol)

[OmnysValefor]

Just to reinforce the sentiment, I imagine an extreme minority of players actually care about the Linkshell Community. For most of us, all we want is an effectively public means of sharing our character data without having to do so manually.

Noone would care if it weren't for FFXIAH. Because of FFXIAH, a large portion of the community cares.

[Awateru]

Couldn't they just have some way to get an XML or JSONP feed of your character data? Have some option in the account management or forum settings where you can enable / disable / customize it, and have it at a generic URL like:
forum.square-enix.com/characters/servername/charactername/

[Darwena]

I want LSC back!!!

[bungiefanNA]

Guildwork and FFXIAH can't update your mission progress without the LS Community. I'm amazed it has been down for so long. It's making it hard to find people to do certain missions with.