Dev Responses

[Phenidate]

What? I know what your OP is talking about and I agree with it, as per my first post.

I was responding to Nixius, who said, "I don't see as many dev responses in the 'feedback & suggestions' forum as in the general forum, which is odd... Still, at least we have devs engaging with us at all right =)?"

Which means that he thinks it's strange that the there are not many dev posts in this section. Which indicates that he thinks this section of the forum is for game feedback, which it is not. Which is why I explained to him that this "feedback and suggestions" for the website and forums only, hence no dev posts regarding game content.

I know you posted this thread in the right forum section. I wasn't addressing that at all.

I misread, my apologies. For some reason my mind blanked out the quote.

We are aware of the issue that you're posting about. It's hard for us to say "yes, we will only respond to topics in posts that are made in the correct forum." We usually respond to topics that have major discussions and as I'm sure you can see, that is more often than not the General Discussion forum. "Why don't you move the threads to the appropriate forums then?" Because then we'd be spending most of our day doing just that. I'll make sure we try to strike a true balance on where we respond, but I assure you that even the "small topics" in the right forum are being seen. You can be sure that those view numbers next to the topic, 9 times out of 10, one of them is us.

We'll try harder!

Bayohne, I greatly appreciate that you and the team are replying to out posts. It alleyed my greatest concern dating back to my time with FFXI and how little we heard from the team back then.

I really don't want to be negative about this at all but more concerned about the state of these forums, please keep in mind many of the posts replied to in General are reposts and multi-reposts of relevant older topics in the correct forums, which have no dev response.

I just feel by mostly responding in there it encourages people to continue to only voice any and every concern there, cluttering up that forum and leaving it feeling like a ghost town out here

[Rentahamster]

I just feel by mostly responding in there it encourages people to continue to only voice any and every concern there, cluttering up that forum and leaving it feeling like a ghost town out here

It also gives more attention to the nonsensical bickering that seems to go on a lot in "general discussion".

[Phenidate]

It also gives more attention to the nonsensical bickering that seems to go on a lot in "general discussion".

Its almost exactly that reason I hate to post there.

Really I get the feeling that all the popular and most discussed topics are mostly in General because everyone sees that the developers mostly respond in that forum.
The thought process likely being "I only see them post replies in there, and never see them in the correct forum. Therefore I will post incorrectly in the General Discussions folder"

How it ended up there was probably a subtle shift, because back when the forums first started it wasn't like that.

If more devs started responding here and not just in one forum most of the time I'm sure discussions would pick right back up where they belong.

[Valmonte]

it would help a great deal if your sticky'd Rules for feedback and suggestions thread, actually specified where we are supposed to post for game related topics. it does not, it simply says that this thread is not is not for Game feed back and directs us to find the ever elusive FFXIV Feedback thread.

a simple link update to the sticky'd post that says all Game related Posts must go Here <link> would help wonderfully.

[Phenidate]

In that vein, renaming THIS sub-forum to something other "Feedback and Suggestions" in the "Feedback" Forum.

Without reading the sticky (which apparently ALOT of people don't judging by the other posts in this forum right now) you would not know this in reality is the 'Forum and Website Feedback' sub forum.

This would if anything keep people from coming here unless they want to post about the website and forums, and also funnel them to the correct sub-forum in Game Mechanics.

[Rentahamster]

If only renaming this section to "Website and Forum Feedback" were so simple.

[Phenidate]

If only renaming this section to "Website and Forum Feedback" were so simple.

It would be a step in the right direction at least

[Kam]

I know that's not your job, but isn't that what the mods like Bacchanale are supposed to be doing? Or are they too busy editing all the personal attacks that all the children love to keep dishing out

my issue with this place since day 1. read the first few pages of the "female galka" thread for my early opinions. lulz... -.-

(basically - if you post stuff in the right place, i bet you it wont get as many views. hence why people just dump everything here.)

[viion]

i just wish the dev tracker didnt list localization posts, so annoying being spammed with them and then i have to go hunting for game responses.

[Nixius]

Which means that he thinks it's strange that the there are not many dev posts in this section. Which indicates that he thinks this section of the forum is for game feedback, which it is not. Which is why I explained to him that this "feedback and suggestions" for the website and forums only, hence no dev posts regarding game content.

Whoops, thanks for that /blush