Okay, It's Two-Way Communication Time

[Geryth]

And now you're set to add tells cross server. TELLS - one of the biggest methods players and RMTs use/used to use to harrass players?

This is 100% a reason to just ditch the chat restrictions. Names are public so there's nothing stopping anyone from just bringing the trash talk outside of the game.

Online games have toxicity. Always have, always will. Administer appropriate and timely punishments, and that largely gets resolved. So many other games have done this well already. Not even restricted chat removes all toxicity, when so many players sarcastically use Good Game and Nice Job.

And overall - yes, SE has a huge lack of communication and involvement with the PvP community. We don't know what they want or have planned for the long term and they just will not verify that they like or will use our feedback - occasional cryptic statements saying they are reading our posts doesn't mean our feedback is coming through their design decisions or are being considered for either short term or long term solutions.

We want answers and action against bots
We want answers and action against win traders
We want answers and action on balance issues
We want answers and action on chat restrictions

Day after day after day....nothing.

[Stormfur]

I'm halfway tempted to write up another post and have it professionally translated, because I feel like we're not heard at all. Or we're swept under the rug.

[Theodric]

It's a real kick in the teeth to be told that the reports about win trading and botting are 'exaggerated'. Anyone who is seriously engaged in PvP and objective about it can come to see that both are dire issues that have been left largely unaddressed.

Then again, it's likely that both are bigger issues over on the EU and NA servers rather than on the Japanese servers due to cultural differences and gaming habits. I'm not saying it's impossible there's issues there, too, but if they're only really concerning themselves with the Japanese servers then it explains why PvP has been handled so awkwardly in some ways.

As for Rival Wings, I think it'll be pretty fun - I don't mind that it isn't entirely based around direct PvP combat since there's a lot of balance issues that are unlikely to ever be ironed out properly. Healers, for instance, are incredibly strong to the point where even a great player can struggle to take them down.

[Crim2989]

We want answers and action against bots
We want answers and action against win traders
We want answers and action on balance issues
We want answers and action on chat restrictions

Day after day after day....nothing.

short sweet and simple

[Geryth]

short sweet and simple

I'll give them credit where it's due - they addressed the most glaring balance issue by fixing AST, and I heard a win trader got removed from the top 10. It's an ongoing process but they have made progress. Now how about some developer to community engagement?