Quote Originally Posted by Bled View Post
i would have to disagree on that one, but then again iv only been keeping up to date on the JP forum for 2 months now and from what i have noticed in that time is a lot better communication then here.
Eh, I wouldn't say the disparity is that large. For the most part, the reps translate all relevant info and post it on this side too. There's only a few things that I've noticed go untranslated, but it's not really groundbreaking stuff.

Quote Originally Posted by Shai View Post
"Don't you think Yoshida's letter has a lot of good information, although its mostly vague?"
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/11012

Then I compared that to this...
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/4937

Notice anything different? Such as real deadlines? Accurate forecasting? Pictures? Detailed information? (Edit: ) Yoshida has a lot more on his chart, but he has a whole game to makeover. So of course he has more things but do they all have to be so few useable details?
Wow, yeah, I think you have a point in this regard. The POL updates really blow away Lodestone as far as community communication and update info are concerned. Too busy or not, the FF14 team does not look good by comparison. Would it really be that much harder to hire more people to have access to the devs' overall plan, and post details about it on Lodestone periodically?

Quote Originally Posted by Bled View Post
Do we know if the community reps have a job outside of being said community rep or what exactly a community rep does? Because as i see it we receive about 3 posts from the community reps a day. what the hell are they doing the other 98% of the time their in the office? pizza parties?

If some one has any clue what a community rep does outside of talking with the community and organizing information please enlighten me.
Well, they have other duties as well other than just dealing with the forums. Other tasks include quality assurance, marketing, etc. I'd imagine they also gotta do a lot of translation work and communicating (email, phone, teleconference, etc) with the JPN folks to keep the information exchange consistent. It's not easy.