A Realm Ignored? LftP LIVE Part XIX Q&A: or Why English Suggestions Never Make It.

[OranKells]

so why did a Japanese company doing a live press event in Japan do it all in Japanese? is that the question?


There are English French and German Moderators that read all the forum posts and do provide regular reports to the developers. how much of it gets through to them though no one can say.

However if you compare the English forums to the Japanese forums you'll see some major differences. The Japanese forums don't have nearly as many trolls. Sarcasm is somewhat lost on our Japanese counterparts; something is lost in translation and its not something that they use like we do. They also don't have as many repeat threads on the same subject; Americans especially suffer from this special snowflake syndrome where we think our ideas are completely original and can't be bothered to read other threads with the same subject and contribute to the conversation. We seem to just talk over each other and are entitled to instant gratification so much so we demand it and threaten to quit and make whiny posts about it.There is a good deal more static to sift through in the English forums. It becomes harder to determine what is an actual community concern and not the just fevered rantings of some addled brain loon.

You want to be heard?
This is what you do.
Get likes. the mods pay more attention to that than you'd think.

Follow the rules pinned to the top of the forum, things that don't get less attention.

Get feedback. If I had to read all the forums posts. I would probably start with the largest and most active threads. So the ones with the most pages get more attention.

Be constructive and responsive. debate but be civil, no name calling or profanity, once it derails in an argument over semantics or a long quote war parsing sentences. You have lost. Lord knows if I'm not playing along as a white/black hat; reading all that noise would be harrrrrd and probably wouldn't be taken seriously.