Quote Originally Posted by DPZ2 View Post
The Enemy, apparently.

Every single time a English writing poster starts complaining about lazy developers, their actual point gets ignored. Every time Square Enix is the subject of derision, the actual point gets ignored. Every time players take sides and prepare for War, the actual points get ignored.

Every time someone expects the developers to actually Read the English forums, they are going to be disappointed for the reasons just given. Who has time for that?

Nuance is not translatable. English speakers take too many shortcuts in explaining what they want. Shortcuts that may be ambiguous to a translator whose first language is probably going to be Japanese.

I'm sure someone reports on general themes. Personally, I would not translate English posts from these forums into Japanese for all the money you might care to throw at me. It's much more difficult than running things through Google Translate.
First what you say is false, there has been plenty of educated, respectful and decently explained discussion/complaints over the years, feedback that even as of today is still ignored (i.e the "healer issues" list which so far hasn't been recognized by the devs https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-healer-issues), if the feedback right now is so negative they are the only ones at fault for letting the situation fester instead of addressing the problem earlier (and I woudn't even say that the situation is that dire considering the amount of white knights still around here)


Second, If a group of grown adults can't handle the negative feedback their product recieves then they shoudn't even be working on it to begin with. When you release a product you're gonna recieve feedback and some of it will be very negative but your duty is to see what's behind it and how to solve the issues if there are some, not completely ignoring it.