What exactly was the purpose of these forums?

[Rambus]

Ok this is where i missed up, there is actally a different section now for posts you did and threads you started ( this divion was an update i think and why i claimed the threads vanished)

[Krystal]

Considering how dead other FFXI forums are (KillingIfrit gets maybe 5 new posts a day and half of them are by trolls like Banter), this new forum is great. It's more advertised and has actual professional mods who actually give a damn about when people are causing trouble or not.

Not to mention our ideas can actually viewed and considered by the dev team. No longer is a forum going to have topics of "Things we wished the devs could see."

ummm.......you must have this forum confused with another one with devs that ACTUALLY give a darn about our ideas,concerns, and questions.

[Greatguardian]

I highly doubt the actual Development Team spends most of their time in a Foreign Language Forum. The Community Team has also already addressed their presence here in other threads. They read the forums a lot, they just don't comment very often. I appreciate this approach, personally. It allows them to properly bring attention to things whenever they do post.

[Kingofgeeks]

although its annoying to hear people constantly complain about the most absurd things, there has been some times when someone will complain about something on the forum and then hey! ffxi announces it will be in the next update (unlimiting FoV and NPC fellow limit cap come to mind). So its already starting to become a good idea... even if we're annoyed at times

[Miiyo]

The ratio for good questions to irrelevant messages in the forums is 1:10,000. Most of these "good questions" are from one sided views about something they don't like or want to see change that wouldn't really benefit the community as a whole. Having someone sit in the forum and answer questions all day is really a way to get you in trouble. Firstly, it'd have to be someone really high up who has knowledge about all the changes and plans. Instead of them actually working, you want them here to lay out a map of the game's future. Again, they would be here wasting time because 90% of the posts here say something sucks. Doesn't suggest what would make it better, but just outright says, I pay you and continue to play, but I'm sure I can do a much better job. Waste of time. Lastly, this game was meant to be an adventure. If you are given every bit of info on what's going to happen, where is the element of surpise? What do you have to look forward to when you know most of what's going to happen.

[Malamasala]

1 to 10 000 sounds about correct. As in real life, majority of people are insane, and just the small minority has good ideas. Sadly to get popularity as a developer, you can't work on these small minority good ideas, because it won't make enough happy. Instead you have to waste time on flavor of the month jobs to make them keep or re-earn their overpowered status again.

I just wish there was some place in this world where we could work on good things instead of popular bad things.

[Fiarlia]

That's pretty much why I post here and would likely be viewed as an ass to many of those insane people you talk about.

I certainly do not want to think about what would happen if all the idiots posted their ideas/rants/suggestions/complaints and there was nobody from the community itself to shoot them down and explain logically with either (correct) math and/or facts to show the dev team that not everyone thinks <insert stupid idea> is awesome or that <insert something that is actually good> is horrible. I'd be worried that if nobody came out and pointed out that shit is shit that it might be taken into serious consideration.