asking for a simple Double X campaign is hardly an imposition, they are doing them anyway. letting them know what players are actually interested in actually seems more like a helpful thing to me. For example, my interest is the crafting skill-up rate ones, I think they need to be longer given the need to accumulate materials to take advantage of them properly, especially when you have to farm because there are never the right mats on the AH for your level synth-and it may be cost-prohibitive even if they were. I don't think it needs an answer unless it will be a flat denial and then I'd like an explanation why it is denied. After all, at the rate XP accumulates do we REALLY need a steady diet of double XP campaigns? Wouldn't a diet of skill-up campaigns be much more useful to the vast majority of players? If most of us think so, SE should probably be made aware of that.

But requests for things like increasing the damage, accuracy and defense of jug pets to be in line with what they were pre-ilevel days, that deserves an explanation as a beast can only function in end-game content with jug pets, and with the reduced stats we are not just ineffective but an actual liability, coupled with being the only pet job that has to pay to participate that's a huge concern. And as most of those issues are universal to ALL pet jobs that's over 1/6 of available jobs stuck in that boat. SE made the job system on the assumption that any job can function so you could play the way you like; getting no answer from them and the even less useful "level something else" from the players goes beyond being ignored into the realm of the deliberate insult. Answers are warranted when you are to all intents and purposes deleting 4/22 of the available jobs from endgame. The answer they've given of using job points is wholly unsatisfactory as we will be spending ours just to play catch-up to where jobs with no JP spent are currently, they will be spending to improve their performance above their base capabilities. I can't see it as rudeness or an imposition for pet job players en masse to be asking for a bit of a dialog there. We need to make plans if we are to scrap our pet jobs and still play, or to decide if next month's subscription fees are worth spending if we are that tied to the job we like.

and the pet job issue is just an example of the kinds of questions we are asking that deserve real answers. Look how long it's taken red mages begging to finally be given relevance again, and even that is really only if your primary DD will be rangers or corsairs. How often were red mages getting any reply, once every 4 months on average, only to be told there were no plans? In what way, shape, form or fashion is that to be considered acceptable when you created a forum to have a dialog with players? no, OP's question and the major support he's gotten from players agreeing with him is completely justified. Now, I'll agree that given the tone of some posters (and the asinine requests of others) there are times when SE should not just ignore the poster and their question but give serious consideration to adding a dunce cap to their avatar but that still leaves about 75% of posts as worthy of a reply to the thread-granted, if there are 6 threads all saying the same thing I don't believe they need to reply in all 6-but at least 1 would be very nice.