gathering in nature

[Lionix]

Honestly instead of having the players ask questions and get no as the majority of the answers why don't the devs just tell us what THEY have planned and what THEY are discussing and tossing around amongst themselves and see how we feel about it. No sense in asking us to ask questions when they are either gonna get a no answer or not answered accurately.

See, this makes freakin' perfect sense. The only reason I can imagine they wouldn't want to just make "blogs" where the team posts what they've been considering and openly tell us what they've taken and dropped is to not get us hyped on something they are considering that ends up dropped, causing a fanboy-revolt. However, they cause the exact same effect whenever they give super-vague answers, which they've been doing forever (can't really say it's new here). So might as well.

What, are they afraid we'd catch on their trend when making decisions for content?

[Cichy]

Well that was a waste of time to even translate the answers. I dont know why they even bother adding a forum when they are not going to release any useful information on it. Any decent info we got so far was just on the front pages of lodestone.

[Rentahamster]

No they didn't.

Yes they did.

Unless that smiley face over there means you're making a joke or something.

In which case,

[Elexia]

"The higher the character’s Mind, the more items are gained."
Whether it be a ninja-edit or you didn't read it properly, they have given answers.

It's called sarcasm.

[Burn]

I'm not going to defend the answers that were given but did you guys honestly expect anything else?

[Elexia]

I'm not going to defend the answers that were given but did you guys honestly expect anything else?

Considering they did actually give answers we got what we wanted, a lot of stuff is being taken into consideration or being looked into (which means what it says.)

It is difficult to stay positive when questions are given cookie cutter responses that show they did not actually read the question.

Example-

"Are there factors such as Moon Phases, Time of Day, and Weather Conditions that affect the Drops Rates and Quality of items obtained through gathering?"

Similar suggestions have been brought up, but nothing specific has been decided.

The answer is a simple yes (+ what mechanics are a factor) or a no.

Or it's because they haven't decided if it will have an effect or not in the future, means no for now but not a concrete no in terms of mechanics as it can always change, so if they flatout said no, then it ends up having an effect after an update, people will say they lied.

[twinkles]

Or it's because they haven't decided if it will have an effect or not in the future, means no for now but not a concrete no in terms of mechanics as it can always change, so if they flatout said no, then it ends up having an effect after an update, people will say they lied.

Yeah i can see your point on this one, but the question is still a yes or no question. I've found a a number of mechanics that are documented in older "ask the dev posts" that simply don't work, and wanted to hear something concrete from SE about moon cycles and weather.

[VydarrTyr]

Honestly instead of having the players ask questions and get no as the majority of the answers why don't the devs just tell us what THEY have planned and what THEY are discussing and tossing around amongst themselves and see how we feel about it. No sense in asking us to ask questions when they are either gonna get a no answer or not answered accurately.

Well, I disagree that they didn't provide any answers. But I can think of a couple of reasons that players should prefer Q&As over blog entries.

First, it's a good way for SE to gauge player interest in certain issues. SE isn't a company of mind-readers. This is a good way for players to let SE know how we feel about certain issues, and what's important enough to fix first.

Second, blog posts/letters tend to focus on what they've definitely got planned, and ignore everything else. That's just good PR. Here, we got plenty of "We're not planning to do that" and "We're thinking about that, but not sure" responses. So we get responses on a wider variety of topics than you'd get from a blog post/letter.

Third, we got answers to our questions. This isn't SE telling us only what they want us to know. This is SE telling us what we want to know.

[Nuru]

Funny how everyone expected this Q&A to be any different than the last one. :P

You're questions were answered, but not the answer you guys wanted.

OH /RAGEQUIT!

[Lionix]

Third, we got answers to our questions. This isn't SE telling us only what they want us to know. This is SE telling us what we want to know.

I~ don't think that's the general feeling around here, that's exactly the issue here.

Eh, personally it's not that I am mad, or disappointed... But I certainly aren't fist-pumping. Wish I could get that feeling again for once. Eh, oh well~.