Dear Bayohne & Rukkirii

[ChiefCurrahee]

Hi OP. They and others are reading the forums. Some topics, due to their content, need to go through the proper channels on their response. Topics where they don't need the chain of command or allow some executive decision based on the info given to them allow for quicker responses.

I understand for situations like "will servers merge" they need prior permission to give us information

but for thigs like
"Targeting is horrible can we get an option like this?" they can't say "thanks for you're input, we will pass it along"

not to mention one of the server merge posts is over 40 days old. that a lot of time to go un acknowledged.

[Lucifer]

Certain peoples opinions are prioritized over ours.

[Andrien]

In their defense.
If they don't have any info from the dev team regarding your request/inquiry, what else you want them to say?

[Roaran]

While they can't respond to every worthwhile thread, I think they've done a worthwhile job relaying the info.

My one pet peeve is that, they are our only way to have a real dialog with the devs. And I wish that threads that have had a lot of time spent forming ideas in them, they would give us more insight into the direction of those specific topics, so we can form ideas based on the real workings of the dev team, as opposed to what we think they're doing or things in game now that might be altered fundamentally.

[Chinook]

Don't blame the reps, blame the community and human nature that'd rather make multiple threads about things like Moogle Weapons and do not care that much about things like server issues (as seen in the past).

It's the same concept explaining why most hardcore players wouldn't make good game developers (same logic behind the common "good salesreps do not make good sales directors" statement in management strategies).

[Belial]

I agree that it would definitely be nice to get some better information sometimes. It's a little disheartening to hop on the Dev tracker and find that the past week the only thing you see is a Dev talk about Chocobo dinners.

However, at the same time, you have to realize this is their job. They are representatives, not decision makers, and are bound by policy & procedure much like everyone who works for a company/entity.

Honestly, just judging by the way they talk I bet some days they are bursting at the seams to say things they're not allowed to just yet.

[KamikazeMan]

They could at least offer to forward these concerns tot he dev team and let us know that they've done so. It would be nice to know that it's at the very least being acknowledged rather than being ignored

[Rentahamster]

Chill out OP, they're not ignoring you. They read everything.

In their defense.
If they don't have any info from the dev team regarding your request/inquiry, what else you want them to say?

^ pretty much this.

But, if you wanna know the real secret, just shine the Bay signal high in the Thanalan sky.

[Jennestia]

Did you somehow miss the Final Fantasy XIV 2.0 announcement? Not read the PDFs?

[Antipika]

They could at least offer to forward these concerns tot he dev team and let us know that they've done so.

It's basically what they are doing on a daily basis. They are paid for that. They don't have to reply to every other thread just to say "We did forward it to the dev team", that is completely pointless. Everything is read.