What's up with the heavy necroing of threads recently?

[Daniolaut]

You all need to make up your minds.

People can’t make new threads, and people can’t post on “old threads.”

You also only “like” posts by people who insult someone else instead of giving constructive feedback or comments.

The forums are not a social forum, they are designed to give feedback on FFXIV for the devs to read. So when all you say is “no” or call someone a troll, you’re only clogging the forums.

[Krotoan]

You all need to make up your minds.

People can’t make new threads, and people can’t post on “old threads.”

You also only “like” posts by people who insult someone else instead of giving constructive feedback or comments.

The forums are not a social forum, they are designed to give feedback on FFXIV for the devs to read. So when all you say is “no” or call someone a troll, you’re only clogging the forums.

Please examine the content of the poster we're referring to and explain how any of it is contributory to the threads or has ANY reason to necro them.

"I agree" on a year + old thread is a garbage response.


Please refer to:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-Discussion%21

Please do not make a simple post just for the purpose of "bumping" a thread.

[Edax]

The forums are not a social forum

That's barely a distinction.

[Iscah]

The forums are not a social forum, they are designed to give feedback on FFXIV for the devs to read.

Can you point to where this is stated? Because as far as I was aware, this is indeed a forum for fans to gather and discuss the game. Even if some seem to think it's their personal hotline to the developers.

[Haruka_R]

The forums are not a social forum, they are designed to give feedback on FFXIV for the devs to read.

Do they though?

[Shougun]

Do they though?

Looooooonnggg ago, part of another website, I had my question answered by Yoshida about how they handle feedback. They said they compile all the major topics across the forums (regions) going on and read them and it takes a lot of their time.

Alternatively I've seen a number of feedbacks made here, some myself, that seemed to have some influence of appearance into the game later. Certainly with quantity it could be feeling like Nostradamus but I feel a few are too on the nose to be coincidence.

So.. yes, I think so- but I'm unsure of the rules (like I imagine sometimes it's on the wim of a dev just visiting the forum themselves, but also is it a thread with a certain number of likes or views or posts?) and clearly they don't talk back to us almost ever so the feeling can easily be "no" if you just look peripherally. I think a major point is SE doesn't really like to rework things mid swing, they don't turn corners sharply out of no where, and likely a lot of that just has to do with their development line and not because they choose to be slow, but also probably because they want to be sure of things before just ripping the car around the track wildly, and so your feedback will likely appear months later if not longer and of course will relate to other feedback, the devs own personal feelings, etc etc (like later meaning at the next expansion).

[Haruka_R]

Looooooonnggg ago, part of another website, I had my question answered by Yoshida about how they handle feedback. They said they compile all the major topics across the forums (regions) going on and read them and it takes a lot of their time.

Alternatively I've seen a number of feedbacks made here, some myself, that seemed to have some influence of appearance into the game later. Certainly with quantity it could be feeling like Nostradamus but I feel a few are too on the nose to be coincidence.

So.. yes, I think so- but I'm unsure of the rules (like I imagine sometimes it's on the wim of a dev just visiting the forum themselves, but also is it a thread with a certain number of likes or views or posts?) and clearly they don't talk back to us almost ever so the feeling can easily be "no" if you just look peripherally. I think a major point is SE doesn't really like to rework things mid swing, they don't turn corners sharply out of no where, and likely a lot of that just has to do with their development line and not because they choose to be slow, but also probably because they want to be sure of things before just ripping the car around the track wildly, and so your feedback will likely appear months later if not longer and of course will relate to other feedback, the devs own personal feelings, etc etc (like later meaning at the next expansion).

I see. I've been a part of other games' forums that have a generous amount of back to back conversations with devs. Those conversations are basically non-existent here. But I can understand why they wouldn't be able to I suppose.

[Penthea]

You all need to make up your minds.

People can’t make new threads, and people can’t post on “old threads.”

When someone revives only controversial old threads and creates other controversial ones, often with extravagant stories, it's hard to consider that person to be anything other than a troll.

We actually have seen this exact behaviour from another player from the same fc, and that account must have gotten banned because they suddenly stopped posting, and now recently we are seeing the exact same thing again from different accounts.

The forums are not a social forum, they are designed to give feedback on FFXIV for the devs to read. So when all you say is “no” or call someone a troll, you’re only clogging the forums.

No this forum is for players to discuss matters related to the game. Not specifically only feedback for the devs. If it was as you say there would be no need for server specific forum sections. Hell, the "community" section wouldn't even exist at all, given that a community is a social group.