Q&A Feedback - Quality vs. Quantity

Hi all,

Thought it might be a good idea to make a consolidated feedback thread for the Q&A system, to help the community teams refine them for the future.

Firstly it should be said that Q&A's are a great idea, and I don't think anyone can complain about the intention behind them. However, so far they've been less than stellar, and that's likely to be because of the quality of answers provided.

So I was wondering, would people rather see a greater volume of questions answered more thinly (to let the playerbase know these things are being looked into etc), or would they rather have, say, the top 5-10 questions picked out and have them explored in more depth with some actual dev opinions.

It just seemed to me that a lot of time was spent on this latest Q&A providing answers for what must've been 30 questions, but no real progress felt like it was made, and we're not really any closer to knowing the intentions of the dev team when it comes to gatherers (other than a vague comment about them being support classes that seems to have caused some amount of complaint).

Just thought it would be nice for them to see feedback in one place on this issue and any others concerning Q&As people have. Please keep it civil, it's a given people aren't that ecstatic about them, we don't need 'vent' posts.. ("I JUST HAVE TO VENT" Do you? Do you really?)

...Go.

Agreed. At this point, even if it's "just being looked into", I'd like some info into what you're doing with a particular project. top 10 questions and answers given a bit more in-depth would go MUCH farther than 40 Q&A's all with the same answer: "We're looking into it".

Again, great idea, and I want to thank the Devs and Reps for looking after us and our need to know, but in practice with the Devs it didn't go as well as everyone wanted them to.

I would like more detailed info, but if you read everything you can get a pretty big picture of what they are working on and what they are not in terms of gathering.

We just have no exact plans they are working on, sorta goes with Yoshida's thing of not making promises before he knows exactly how they will play out. We all know how it would play out if they said Yes we will do X this way and then it ends up being scrapped how pissed of the forum base would get on these forums. with the "OMG, see the devs promiss us one things and give us another!".

In the end we have a much better idea of what they are doing with gathering now, then if they said nothing at all.