To Bayohne et al.

[Shazaam]

Dev reps are definitely the most effective part of the team right now, and have done a great job.

Sentiment agreed upon. I haven't played in months, but I check this forum regularly and I go straight to the dev tracker. I still don't want to play (even for free), but I want to read what they have to say. I want to play a FF MMO, but it just isn't fun enough to justify me spending my time on it, even if it's free. But I gladly will spend some of my time to read what the reps have to say.

[Balbanes]

Now only if SE could follow in Bungie's footsteps and post weekly updates, every Friday, 5pm PST.

TOR does this as well. It was nice at first, but the updates aren't always game related.

[Rukkirii]

Awwww thank you guys! You know how to make me /blush. We appreciate all of your kind words and understanding.

[Cutriss]

+1

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/10char

[Cutriss]

It's very much a matter of being stuck between a rock and a hard place full of anger and rabid fanboyism, of which I have had no small part in. Definitely not easy.

[Terabyt3]

Cheers guys! We have all seen the posts and threads about vague answers or copy/paste answer to questions but you can only pass the message on. At least you guys are going to the effort of putting these questions forward and translations. Then posting them (whatever the responses may be) on here.

I'm not fully sure how it works with you guys but I have this image in my head of one you walking towards a developer with a 3' high stack of paper in your hands full of questions

[Gundammeister]

To Bayohne, Rukkirii, Hvinire, Gildrein as well as the Japanese, French and German Community Reps, I would just like to say thank you for your guys' work.

Admittedly, one of my biggest frustrations with Square Enix while I was heavy into FFXI for it's first 7'ish years was the absence of interaction with the community. Almost exactly a year ago now, I made a post on ZAM regarding the lack of community interaction from SE, wondering why we never heard a peep from a community team. I don't blame you guys at all, I know SE Japan must have had you all on a pretty tight leash. I actually remember an interview Robert Peeler (Hvinire) did about FFXIV and thinking to myself... Robert Peeler... who the heck is that?!

With the addition of the official forums, and SE's promise to regain the trust of the players, it is such a nice relief to see you guys responding to our questions and concerns. Even if the answers may sound a bit repetitive at times (most of us realize Yoshida and his team are probably juggling a bagillion balls right now and trying to focus on certain things first), it's still nice to be kept in the loop. A little community interaction really does go a long way, and I just wanted to let you guys know that it's appreciated.

Agreed. Right on!

[Coombah]

To Bayohne, Rukkirii, Hvinire, Gildrein as well as the Japanese, French and German Community Reps, I would just like to say thank you for your guys' work.

Admittedly, one of my biggest frustrations with Square Enix while I was heavy into FFXI for it's first 7'ish years was the absence of interaction with the community. Almost exactly a year ago now, I made a post on ZAM regarding the lack of community interaction from SE, wondering why we never heard a peep from a community team. I don't blame you guys at all, I know SE Japan must have had you all on a pretty tight leash. I actually remember an interview Robert Peeler (Hvinire) did about FFXIV and thinking to myself... Robert Peeler... who the heck is that?!

With the addition of the official forums, and SE's promise to regain the trust of the players, it is such a nice relief to see you guys responding to our questions and concerns. Even if the answers may sound a bit repetitive at times (most of us realize Yoshida and his team are probably juggling a bagillion balls right now and trying to focus on certain things first), it's still nice to be kept in the loop. A little community interaction really does go a long way, and I just wanted to let you guys know that it's appreciated.

I agree it really shows that we are being listened to and it's awesome to see the answers make it back to us fairly quickly. Like the missing genders thread I was surprised to see it get answered and now look forward to seing them added. Thanks guys

[Griss]

I've said it before and i will say it again, The comunity team is doing a bang up job on keeping us in the loop.

Speaking of that.. think one of you could go poke some people about a update as far as .18 is concerned. Its really starting to turn into a mad house around here with people wondering about it.

[Davorok]

Sentiment agreed upon. I haven't played in months, but I check this forum regularly and I go straight to the dev tracker. I still don't want to play (even for free), but I want to read what they have to say. I want to play a FF MMO, but it just isn't fun enough to justify me spending my time on it, even if it's free. But I gladly will spend some of my time to read what the reps have to say.

/agree /nod