Dear SE, please stop ignoring the bigger threads.

[Kikoten]

I can understand their silence on the RMT issue. If they started talking to us about it, it'd be like handing the RMT people suits of armor and saying, "Here, wear this, we're going to shoot at you."

[Raist]

Developers don't come to these forums. It is that way by design... and for a good reason. In case you missed them, here are some of the posted guidelines:

Welcome to the official FINAL FANTASY XIV forums!
Welcome to Forum: General Discussion!

There is a community team that gathers information and submits them for review, after which they may be given a response and the authority to post it. The process can get drawn out for a lengthy amount of time--language barriers can cause things to get lost in translation, policies may dictate how ideas are processed and flushed out, the chain of command must be followed and the flow of information is very carefully guarded along the way.

This is a Japanese company, and they are very particular about how things are done...and adamant about making sure the process is followed quite strictly. This team is by far much much MUCH better about communicating with the playerbase than ever before. The players hounded SE for a DECADE before some significant changes were finally implemented in this game's predecessor....in some cases when we actually did get a commitment from them, the promised content took YEARS to finally implement.

<<Curse you posting limitations...>>

Just saying... need to keep things in the proper perspective.

[Rhas]

There are several big threads at the moment with tens of thousands of views. Even if there are millions who play this game, thousands should still elicit some comment, even if it's "Not gonna happen." or "We shall see".
And some of them are on distinctly negative subjects. The RTM situation. The male dress. That sort of thing.

And there are 8 days until early access kicks off.

[Velthice]

There's lot's of reasons for square to not reply to threads. If it's a thread about a wanted feature, the best case scenario response is going to be, "We'll look into it" otherwise they're not going to respond because they don't want the feature for whatever reason, they're already working on the feature or the feature isn't possible. Likewise they're not going to go "Yea this is a great idea, we'll get right on it," because promising a feature and then finding out it that it isn't possible for whatever reason is a sure way to build distrust and disappoint the community.

Likewise you'll never ever get a response from square about rmt outside of the reports that the post weekly (The latest one being found here!) because they're not going to detail their process of catching and punishing rmt in any public place or even outside of the office that it's dealt with, nor should they. You don't catch people by telling them exactly how you plan to catch them so they know exactly how to skirt around it and continue operations care free. This also doesn't mean that square is ignoring community suggestions but they're never going to pop in and say "yea these are great, we're going to use a few of these" for the same reason.

[codofwisdom]

And there are 8 days until early access kicks off.

Thankfully, it only take a few minutes and a few keystrokes to check the original post, and provide an opinion on it.

But you are correct, they have their mind on other things.

Except the dev tracker shows activity from as little as 3 hours ago. Again, even if it's admins, it takes a minute or two to comment.

[Renik]

If they answered to the horns thread saying it's impossible because of memory limitations (not talking about ps3, but data traffic), would you accept the answer or would you make more noise to get things your way?

There you have your answer.

[Malevicton]

Again, even if it's admins, it takes a minute or two to comment.

No it really doesn't. They aren't just people who work on the game who also happen to be on the forums. Their job is to represent SE, not represent themselves. They have to make comments that represent SE's position and if they don't they aren't gonna have the job for long.

Forum mods making a comment is usually a pretty involved process that includes multiple people coordinating to make sure they're representing more than just their personal opinions.

[Zabuza]

Greetings,

In the lead up to the release of Heavensward, it can seem like we're being silent or not following up on many of the topics you're bringing up here. However, we would like everyone to understand that we are listening and gathering all of the feedback you've been diligently submitting to us, whether or not we make it overtly known. The development team truly values everyone's feedback and suggestions.

That being said, your comments from this thread, and other related threads, have been relayed to the development team. They would like to use all of the comments they've been getting as reference for future development and adjustments.

We look forward to your continued suggestions and feedback to help combat RMT, and FINAL FANTASY XIV itself, even better!

Even just leaving such a reply as that in my thread would've helped a little. Don't have to say what they are doing to combat RMT, just an acknowledgement and reassurance that it is an issue and they are going to step up their game would've sufficed.

[Rhas]

If they answered to the horns thread saying it's impossible because of memory limitations (not talking about ps3, but data traffic), would you accept the answer or would you make more noise to get things your way?

There you have your answer.

More likely it would be "It is too close to launch to do anything about it at this time. Unfortunately something like this would have have needed to be in the works a year or more ago when we first started implementing the design for the new race. There would actually be too much to reprogram for this to be an option at this late date. If you would like us to delay the expansion for another 6 to 8 months to be able to finalize this new design, I'm sure we could manage that." ;P

[MageBlack]

Key difference: He's not on the dev team. His comment doesn't carry the same weight. So if he doesn't say annything, who cares? But if a dev won't say anything, then we have no clue what's going on on their side.

Do we need a daily play by play report of everything they are doing? As far as I'm concerned, SE does not "owe" us any replies. What they do choose to comment on is entirely up to them and is a bonus, act of good faith. You dont like it now. you would have hated 1.0's team.

At at the same token, thanks for explaining to me exactly why they shouldnt even bother commenting at all. "His comment doesn't carry the same weight. So if he doesn't say annything, who cares?" Exactly, so why should they reply?