On a scale of 1 to 5-- Do you feel SE listens to their western players? State why.

[Knahli]

1 - Just look at the EU campaign for the butler stuff.

That's not even close to being a valid argument. Just because you don't get your way it doesn't mean your concerns weren't noticed or that the Japanese community would have achieved a different result had the same thing happened to them.


As for my opinion, I cant really give a vote. I have no evidence nor reason to believe that they have listened to any one side more than the other. I know many, many features requested by Western players have been implemented but I don't know how many requested by the Japanese community have been, nor if they had any vocal opinions on the same features we had been looking for - and frankly I find this topic to be a bit redundant; not so much in it's legitimacy as a question posed by the OP, but rather peoples' responses or inability to do so with any sane measure of objectivity. So far I haven't seen anyone with hard, factual opinions on what the JP community have requested and received and what they have not received to line up against everyone else. All I see is mostly "We didn't get X. They don't care about us", "I bet if we were Japanese they would care", and that's honestly such a tired argument I see all over the internet these days. People like accusing these Eastern companies of catering to the desires of people closer to home at any given opportunity but as far as I can tell they are just mindless accusations with no real evidence to support it. It could be true, sure, but I think most people are so used to hearing that excuse that they throw it around themselves even though they have no clue what they are talking about.

[Jax-Majutsu]

That's not even close to being a valid argument. Just because you don't get your way it doesn't mean your concerns weren't noticed or that the Japanese community would have achieved a different result had the same thing happened to them.

I don't know what you mean by you "didn't get it your way" I never stated a way that I wanted and honestly I would be fine with having to buy a magazine for the codes if it were Edge or any other magazine that wasn't utter garbage. I'm still saying they don't listen to us though, 80 odd pages of people just wanting some answers and we never got anything other than the rules typed out a little clearer.

[Knahli]

I don't know what you mean by you "didn't get it your way" I never stated a way that I wanted and honestly I would be fine with having to buy a magazine for the codes if it were Edge or any other magazine that wasn't utter garbage. I'm still saying they don't listen to us though, 80 odd pages of people just wanting some answers and we never got anything other than the rules typed out a little clearer.

It's wasn't intended as a specific direction at the example you used nor was the term 'you' meant to apply to any one person necessarily. I intended it as a broader comment than that but assuming you fit the criteria in the case of the magazine example then it would have applied, yes. I wasn't trying to pick at you specifically but I apologise for coming across that way.