
Originally Posted by
Stormfur
I agree. It's common on forums to shift gears when something new comes out, but that doesn't mean the other things aren't important. I think we don't get a lot of interaction from the community team because:
1) They're busy. Their responsibilities are more than just moderating the forum. Remember they're the ones that read through contest entries and do certain streams and things. I don't say that to absolve them of communicating with us, I just think the real reason is that, plus #2 below:
2) They can't say much that isn't official and set-in-stone. Because if they do, people won't let them forget it. Let's say a forum admin accidentally lets slip that there's a big change being speculated and Eureka Anemos dropboxes will now have old PVP rewards in them (could you imagine?? lol). Even if it was just a thought and wasn't actually implemented, people would forget that part completely and believe wholeheartedly that it's coming, and THEY. WOULD. FREAK. OUT.
And then you'd have to put out a virtual forum fire that didn't even need to be started in the first place.So yeah, I can see why they wouldn't want to reveal things that still being planned or even things that are going to be implemented in the game because I bet even those can change at the last minute.
Now those things being said, that doesn't absolve them out of interacting with us. Like the PVP changes that happened in 4.25 are things that nobody was expecting. In the PVP forum we're starving for community interaction beyond the "keep the feedback coming and we'll keep telling the dev team" because, as much as we appreciate that, it feel like we're being heard, but no one's actually listening.
For example -- what's the consensus on bringing back chat in pvp? If it isn't coming back, what lead you to that decision? Will top 100 rewards be made available by other means in PVP? Will the beloved PVP seal rock coat ever see the light of day from any other mode? If the answer to either or both of these is "no", what lead you to make that decision?
PVP aside, there are plenty of other questions in the game that we've never gotten an answer to. What's the future of glamour plates and why is the system so cumbersome to use? Why don't fishers have a tackle box similar to the chocobo saddlebag? What on Hydaelyn's Mother Crystal happened to the grand plan that Eureka was supposed to be?
They probably don't want to feel like they need to pass every change they make through the playerbase filter (of which the forum is a fraction of a fraction) and get our blessing and permission before making changes. Because our opinions on everything are all over the map.
The answer, for the community team, I believe is somewhere in the middle. No, everything doesn't need to be passed by the players, but more information behind the decision does... Even if it doesn't sway the developers' opinions and content plans, at least it will tell us their reasoning. It would be nice if we could have some say in the direction the game takes -- after all, we are paying for it! Just like the suggestion of 99 tokens for a primal mount became an option, it's not that our community here doesn't have good feedback or concrete suggestions to give.
So they should be able to say, for instance... the main reason why we can't add tackle boxes is because of the sheer amount of memory needed to store the extra items. Or, the main reason why Eureka is such a grind-fest right now is because we are working on adapting the gameplay over time and this was just the first iteration of it. Or whatever the reason is.