Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
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Making a closed Beta server JP only feels like a perfectly reasonable method to get player's feedback straight to the devs. It would absolutely rub some people wromg, but between the tendency for Westerners to leak content and the baffling translation errors we keep seeing in Live Letters, I think we'd be better for it!

Besides, it's not like the JP playerbase is lacking on discerning, hardcore players that will gladly break a job.

I'm ambivalent on the media tour thing. I feel like getting player feedback through them was a major point of the tour, but that may be just how things panned out. I mean, we were in a panic over how bad WHM looked, but then WHM was ok and other jobs were/are much worse off at launch.

Personally, I think most of the small channels are much more entertaining to watch over the big outlets for that kind of content as they have a personal investment, but that passion backfired a bit.