Lets address the other elephant in the room...NA forum Dev engangement

[Jojoya]

Then maybe dont expect north america to support your product??? Is it really that difficult to hire help for translation?

Personally I don't want the developers wasting their time posting individual feedback to hundreds of player questions in the forums when they could be spending their time developing content for the game.

Why is having their personal attention and responses so important to you? If you feel you're being neglected, you have the option to not support their products and yet here you are.

Just because they don't design the game in the way a small percentage of the NA community demands does not mean we are not being heard. Contrary to what some say, we know that they do have members of the Community teams scanning the forums of all languages for feedback and passing it on. There have been times that YoshiP has mentioned specific region community feedback during Live Letters and interviews.

They have their vision for the game and that's what they follow. They'll listen to feedback and that will occasionally influence their decisions but in the end they decide what they're going to make. It's up to you to decide if you want to pay for access.

Look at the state of the forums for the last couple years and that's all the reason you need. At least general discussion.



Troll threads, a zillion complaint threads because everyone needs to make their own special thread on the same topic because their opinion is more important.



People bumping 10 year old threads for no reason.



What is there to even engage with here?

There are things to engage with here. Not every thread is a troll thread.

But time spent on forum engagement is time that's not spent developing the game. I'd rather have them working on the game than wasting time justifying their design choices to players who are just going to find more things to complain about if they get the attention they're seeking.

[Amenara]

But time spent on forum engagement is time that's not spent developing the game. I'd rather have them working on the game than wasting time justifying their design choices to players who are just going to find more things to complain about if they get the attention they're seeking.

Isn't that the purpose of hiring community managers? Engage with the forums to see what concerns and ideas there are from the community, find the useful information in the sea of threads and turn it into something that can be passed along to the developers. That being said, at the very least I'd love some more moderators in the forums.

[MonteCristo]

Isn't that the purpose of hiring community managers? Engage with the forums to see what concerns and ideas there are from the community, find the useful information in the sea of threads and turn it into something that can be passed along to the developers. That being said, at the very least I'd love some more moderators in the forums.

Absolutely and tbh given the amount of success this game has had its wild to me that were are even asking for community managers to begin with.