Quote Originally Posted by Spellbinder View Post
So, hypothetically speaking, if the developers came here to defend the design choices they made, they're just crazy and need to leave?

I'm not defending them, mind, just asking a question.
The developers don't believe it's impossible for them to do wrong unlike some of their fans, they value feedback greatly and Yoshida and the team have made that very clear. They rarely ever post on the forums to begin with, and the chances of them in posting in this thread or one similar (the actual devs, not community managers) would be slim to none. But regardless, they wouldn't mindlessly defend their choices and attempt to silence people like players have been doing. They'd listen to the feedback and see how they could improve their choices going forward.

I really don't understand those telling people to quit. Okay, you're fine to enjoy the game as most of us to, you're allowed to not be bored, no one's going to take that away from you, but to come in and pretty much say "Your feedback is invalid because you're burnt out, go take a break, or quit a find another game" is silly. How do you think game has reached this point from 1.0, how do you think it will keep improving? That's right, the feedback. To say the forum and the subreddit is a minority is correct, but the people who post on these sites are people who likely care a lot for the game to improve and want to see it reach new heights, not just stagnate... you can't just dismiss them because they're the minority, if not for this minority who'd be voicing their suggestions? The people playing the game who don't care? The people who've only played for a month and may not even know about the forums (meaning they can't express them to begin with)? That's right, they'll get close to no feedback, and as I said earlier, the team values feedback and it's incredibly important that the dev team knows what the players want.

This is why people people provide feedback, they want the game to improve and last a long time because, believe it or not, they enjoy it. They just don't want it to be left behind. The standard MMORPG is a dying genre, new players just aren't common enough to keep constantly replacing people who get tired of the same formula. The same thing happened to WoW and FFXI, they could no longer attract newer players at the rate they needed to, but they have a dedicated and loyal fanbase. That's what kept those game's alive, and still keeping WoW in its place as the most popular MMORPG, but even the devs stated that they're now losing players significantly faster than new ones join in. Yoshida and the team need to build that loyalty, and get people to love the game for years to come, not just abandon them in hopes new players will join. They had a boost of initial popularity because of the positive media surrounding a "reborn" MMO of an incredible failure (1.0), and of couse the Final Fantasy name. They need to build on that, not throw it all away.

That's what I believe anyway, I hope I got my point across clearly.