Official 10th Anniversary Survey

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

In short I told them I have low hopes for the AST rework, battle content and job/class design has been low quality, and I hate the "single player" direction they're going with for an MMO.

On the part where they ask me what was my most formidable foe, I wrote in the field: "Whoever designs FFXIV Healers from ShB and onward."

[IDontPetLalas]

On the part where they ask me what was my most formidable foe, I wrote in the field: "Whoever designs FFXIV Healers from ShB and onward."

I really wish I could go back and edit my answer now, this would have fit the rest of my responses perfectly.

In spite of this survey having likely been sponsored by the marketing team, I really hope that the verbatim get forwarded to the development team.

[Boblawblah]

I really hope that the verbatim get forwarded to the development team.

In reality, what having snarky comments would do is have it completely ignored and never reach the devs. All the devs will see is a point form summary of some of the interesting results/common thoughts. People insulting Yoshi-P/etc are simply going to have those comments removed before analysis.

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It might be cathartic to get 'it' out though, so you do you

[IDontPetLalas]

In reality, what having snarky comments would do is have it completely ignored and never reach the devs. All the devs will see is a point form summary of some of the interesting results/common thoughts. People insulting Yoshi-P/etc are simply going to have those comments removed before analysis.

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It might be cathartic to get 'it' out though, so you do you

I didn't include any "snarky comments" nor was I (hopefully) as condescending as your post. Perhaps you didn't intend that.

[Boblawblah]

I didn't include any "snarky comments" nor was I (hopefully) as condescending as your post. Perhaps you didn't intend that.

No, not meaning to be condescending at all. The reality is, 99% of our individual responses won't matter in the slightest, so for some, getting their frustrations out, even if they know it's essentially meaningless can be a good thing for them. Whether or not you meant to be snarky, anything that is off-topic from the post will be removed/ignored (even if it's not snarky). So people putting "yoshi-p needs to be removed" and similar thoughts simply won't accepted. And I was very serious about the devs never seeing individual feedback, they simply don't have the time to look through that. They'll have an analyst work through the data first.

[IDontPetLalas]

No, not meaning to be condescending at all. The reality is, 99% of our individual responses won't matter in the slightest, so for some, getting their frustrations out, even if they know it's essentially meaningless can be a good thing for them. Whether or not you meant to be snarky, anything that is off-topic from the post will be removed/ignored (even if it's not snarky). So people putting "yoshi-p needs to be removed" and similar thoughts simply won't accepted. And I was very serious about the devs never seeing individual feedback, they simply don't have the time to look through that. They'll have an analyst work through the data first.

Thanks. I don't know anything about how SE works , however the verbatim (i.e. the free text responses) can potentially be automated through various ways. It doesn't require someone to individually read through (potentially) thousands of responses in order analyze them unless they're back in the Stone Age. The results are then presented, most likely as you say as aggregates, even if it's as relatively high level as a WordCloud.

There is usually someone required to start this process, so there is some manual effort, so it's entirely up to SE if they want to disregard some comments like your example that contain references to "yoshi-p". (or obscenities , etc) Personally I wouldn't , but hey not my company.