1.17 NMs: Let's talk about them...

[Fensfield]

http://static.finalfantasyxiv.com/to...4faff34ed00e74

This is the community's reply to whether they want to see drastic changes in Eorzea. The majority do.

You are not part of the majority. Deal with it or get out.

Wow, way to run in with the 'Poll says I can shout down your constructive criticism' strategy.

Sorry, but by opening these forums, S-E removed any right people like you might have had to tell us to shut up about our opinions. So people said they'd be okay with big changes. So what?

Even setting aside how great a jerk your 'majority says shut up' argument makes you look, that poll was to establish a direction for the team to go in, and it has - and we're all fine with that. The results of it do not give you the right to go running into every topic you vaguely dislike and tell people to 'shutup or GTFO'.

Square-Enix request our feedback, we're giving it to them. People may be okay with drastic changes to the game, but why should we not be allowed to talk about why we dislike this change in particular?

That poll, at this point, is completely irrelevant; to this thread, to far less considered threads, and even to threads arguing in favour of even more drastic changes that I imagine you think it supports. It was a one-time effort to give the development team a sense of direction during a difficult time, and I imagine some of them are rather regretting publishing the results now, what with people like you running into topics and waving 'We're okay with big changes' in everyone's faces as an argument why they should feel small and unimportant. As of the forums opening, people are allowed to offer whatever criticism, praise, or ideas they want and hope the developers take notice, and that includes, "I'm sorry, I don't like this particular change, this is why I feel it's detrimental."

Deal with it, or get out, and take your meaningless numbers with you.

[And just for the record, I voted 'No' to drastic changes. A: Because knowing the internet, it was obvious people like this would start touting a positive answer at everyone they didn't like. B: Because I just knew that if I did, two thirds of the changes would come back to bite me for it.

And I still find it laughable to think that at the time, Naoki Yoshida could have imagined he would get anything like a considered reply, let alone an informed one, to so vague and dramatic a question of so riled a userbase]