Yoshi-P: "If you want more engaging content, go play Ultimate"

[IDontPetLalas]

JP Forums get more looked at than NA ones for sure. Partly because it's a JP game whose main target are JP players, and another part that the JP forums are usually not as, lack of a better word, emotional than NA ones. A lot of JP posts are very concise, to the point, with reasoning and examples, pros and cons, etc, etc. The word of mouth I have heard is the community managers scrape the forums, consolidate the information, then feed it back to Dev HQ for them to mull over. There definitely used to be way more interaction on the forums from the community managers, unsure what started the decline, most likely it just turned into attacks and name calling. Especially with how hostile the forums have become lately, I'm not surprised they aren't sticking their neck out to the community chopping block.

So let me get this straight, you're saying that you think that the lack of attention of the NA forums is due to the main target of the game being JP players? Interesting, because while it is popular in Japan, if the metrics that i can call up in just a 5 minute search are correct, JP players only account for less than 25% of the characters, with about 75% being EU and NA. NOTE- that's on "all' characters - not just 'active'.

Do you really think that SE marketing doesn't know this (if it is in fact true), and that input from these forums is completely ignored?

I mean, that doesn't mean i don't think it shouldn't be improved- I definitely do- but i would be surprised if there isn't some reporting back to SE.