Who is jumping ship once they start charging in November?

[AmyRae]

Right. Poll Results are skewed in the first place. The forums are generally somewhat more accurate because only people that are currently playing and have an active account can post here, and I'd imagine being able to like posts as well.

Polls on other forums don't even take consideration whether the person is even playing or not. if they're not playing why should they answer?

So FFXIVCore's own, self-promoting admin is throwing its users under the bus. What an unexpected paradox.

[Suirieko]

So FFXIVCore's own, self-promoting admin is throwing its users under the bus. What an unexpected paradox.

I was not self-promoted. Zyuu left and I replaced him, and even then, I don't even "run the forums" overall, Curse does.

And this isn't "throwing users under the bus" it's fact and common sense. Personally I'm not a big fan of the fact that we have to pay so soon, but if it's help to improve FFXIV, Great.

But here's the thing polls will be differnet on the other forums because it's as the guy pointed out. They can only look at the forums ( I'd imagine they can't like nor can they post if they're not playing) and people that ARE playing can 'vote'. It's not a surprise that the result here is very different than the result on the other forums.

[AmyRae]

I was not self-promoted. Zyuu left and I replaced him, and even then, I don't even "run the forums" overall, Curse does.

And this isn't "throwing users under the bus" it's fact and common sense. Personally I'm not a big fan of the fact that we have to pay so soon, but if it's help to improve FFXIV, Great.

But here's the thing polls will be differnet on the other forums because it's as the guy pointed out. They can only look at the forums ( I'd imagine they can't like nor can they post if they're not playing) and people that ARE playing can 'vote'. It's not a surprise that the result here is very different than the result on the other forums.

Definition of self-promotion aside (it doesn't mean I think you gave yourself a promotion)... If you think you're leading a community of miscreants, the majority of whom only show up to your site to troll FFXIV players who haven't figured out how to log into the Lodestone, then why even bother with a place like FFXIVCore in the first place?

Your community has expressed that it doesn't want to pay a subscription, and you're acting like "your people" (if they only knew...) don't care about FFXIV. There are trolls on every site, but trolls shouldn't be able to score the majority vote.

Why aren't you bringing up these concerns like BG does to SE rather than coming here to say that the opinion of those outside the Lodestone don't matter? Don't you realize your relevance that you take pride in comes from those very people whose majority opinion you're trashing?

[Suirieko]

Definition of self-promotion aside (it doesn't mean I think you gave yourself a promotion)... If you think you're leading a community of miscreants, the majority of whom only show up to your site to troll FFXIV players who haven't figured out how to log into the Lodestone, then why even bother with a place like FFXIVCore in the first place?

Your community has expressed that it doesn't want to pay a subscription, and you're acting like "your people" (if they only knew...) don't care about FFXIV. There are trolls on every site, but trolls shouldn't be able to score the majority vote.

Why aren't you bringing up these concerns like BG does to SE rather than coming here to say that the opinion of those outside the Lodestone don't matter? Don't you realize your relevance that you take pride in comes from those very people whose majority opinion you're trashing?

I never thought I'm leading a community of miscreants. The point of FFXIVCore is that we're a fan sight, and FYI, we actually have got a chance to talk to SE and brought up our concerns. According to Curse we're having technical difficulties with our interviews from SE.

I never said that people on FFXIVCore don't care about FFXIV. That's false. The fact is, some people there are not happy with FFXIV, and therefore, doesn't play it, and doesn't want to pay for it. The people that don't play FFXIV can't post on this forums, and therefore, can't participate on this forums, including voting on "polls". Many of them feel that it's too soon to pay for FFXIV. That's the general consensus.

[AmyRae]

I never thought I'm leading a community of miscreants. The point of FFXIVCore is that we're a fan sight, and FYI, we actually have got a chance to talk to SE and brought up our concerns. According to Curse we're having technical difficulties with our interviews from SE.

I never said that people on FFXIVCore don't care about FFXIV. That's false. The fact is, some people there are not happy with FFXIV, and therefore, doesn't play it, and doesn't want to pay for it. The people that don't play FFXIV can't post on this forums, and therefore, can't participate on this forums, including voting on "polls". Many of them feel that it's too soon to pay for FFXIV. That's the general consensus.

I just can't get past that you think that the only poll that matters is the one here, such as it is:

Right. Poll Results are skewed in the first place. The forums are generally somewhat more accurate because only people that are currently playing and have an active account can post here, and I'd imagine being able to like posts as well.

Polls on other forums don't even take consideration whether the person is even playing or not. if they're not playing why should they answer?

It may surprise you to learn that not everyone likes posting here. They may prefer the moderation style elsewhere or they already have an established circle of friends from other games like FFXI that a fan site also supports.

But you certainly don't show up at a FFXIV fan site because even though you don't want to play, you love logging in to skew poll results. At least, there wouldn't be so many they would actually win the poll.

There are a lot of people who want to participate, want this game to succeed, but don't feel it's worth investing in right now. This appears to be a consensus across fan sites, and I can't understand why it looks like you're taking the position that the opinion of fan sites don't matter because they can't tell who's played in the last month or not.

Those people are potential FFXIV customers and the lifeblood of your site.

[Wynn]

Actually, nevermind. It is pointless trying to talk sense into some people.

[XxOstiaxX]

I just can't get past that you think that the only poll that matters is the one here, such as it is:



It may surprise you to learn that not everyone likes posting here. They may prefer the moderation style elsewhere or they already have an established circle of friends from other games like FFXI that a fan site also supports.

But you certainly don't show up at a FFXIV fan site because even though you don't want to play, you love logging in to skew poll results. At least, there wouldn't be so many they would actually win the poll.

There are a lot of people who want to participate, want this game to succeed, but don't feel it's worth investing in right now. This appears to be a consensus across fan sites, and I can't understand why it looks like you're taking the position that the opinion of fan sites don't matter because they can't tell who's played in the last month or not.

Those people are potential FFXIV customers and the lifeblood of your site.

In all honesty, neither poll really matters, unless SE makes a poll where the 620K people that dont play actually vote in, then that would meter, a few thousand here and there are as irrelevant as your discussion about who is a troll and who is not <.<

[Answa]

Definition of self-promotion aside (it doesn't mean I think you gave yourself a promotion)... If you think you're leading a community of miscreants, the majority of whom only show up to your site to troll FFXIV players who haven't figured out how to log into the Lodestone, then why even bother with a place like FFXIVCore in the first place?

Your community has expressed that it doesn't want to pay a subscription, and you're acting like "your people" (if they only knew...) don't care about FFXIV. There are trolls on every site, but trolls shouldn't be able to score the majority vote.

Why aren't you bringing up these concerns like BG does to SE rather than coming here to say that the opinion of those outside the Lodestone don't matter? Don't you realize your relevance that you take pride in comes from those very people whose majority opinion you're trashing?

All kidding aside, you're reading whatever your mind is telling you to read. She never even talked about trolls. Is that what you consider people who don't want to pay?

Conundrum?