Quote Originally Posted by Nizzi View Post
Perhaps they could use their tools of moderation to simultaneously warn or ban people who are incredibly aggressive towards them while creating a positive environment for giving feedback? I'd wager most of the aggression comes from the fact there is literally 0 indication that anyone is being listened to at all, on top of the incredible lack of moderation.

For as much money as this game makes Square, these forums should absolutely be more moderated to not allow the 50+ page trolling threads on political issues/identity issues to last for weeks as they have at times, and they should also have community managers that are able to effectively pass on feedback and suggestions to the developers since this is literally where the game itself tells you to go to leave that kind of stuff.

We don't need to jump into this nonsense of "why would they want to be here when people are mean?? they don't listen because people mean and rude??" when perhaps it's just SE's fault that this environment has been allowed to develop in the first place? They're the only ones with the ability to moderate the forums, and they barely make an attempt to even do that.
Finally! Someone gets it! It would be one thing if this was some private server manned by a couple of guys on discord but considering people are (I assume) pulling a paycheck by upkeeping the forums all it would take is some CS agent or (god forbid) a dev to make a post every once in a while to talk about what players are having an issue with. They could even banter if they want, nothing wrong with a good joke and it would actually endear the "company's image" to the fanbase. All i'm saying is that someone is getting paid to do very little and I want in, hit me up SE. I wrote the book on doing very little on the job~!