Why Does Yoshida Still Avoid using Offcial Sources to spread info, Also Relics

[strawberrycake]

My whole issue is that, Yoshida doesn't put Any, of his interviews out via any official accounts or on official places. I get what people are saying, but that lack of interaction is still an issue and this is one of the few ways can know what hes thinking and how he feels. And if he's gonna ask us to use the forums for feed back, we need to know all of these things, we can then aid in being more confident and concise in what we say and it can lead to a better products, especially since this interview screamed *this is me saying and showing I read the official forums*.

[Jojoya]

My whole issue is that, Yoshida doesn't put Any, of his interviews out via any official accounts or on official places. I get what people are saying, but that lack of interaction is still an issue and this is one of the few ways can know what hes thinking and how he feels. And if he's gonna ask us to use the forums for feed back, we need to know all of these things, we can then aid in being more confident and concise in what we say and it can lead to a better products, especially since this interview screamed *this is me saying and showing I read the official forums*.

I see this as a failure on the part of the Community team. They are the ones that should be keeping the community up to date with game information being released by the developers outside of the Lodestone. It shouldn't be that difficult to have a weekly blog saying "YoshiP just did another series of interviews with gaming publications. Here are links to the published interview articles".

Sometimes it feels like the Community team has been tasked to interact with everyone except the player community. Don't call it a Community team if it's really a general marketing and publicity team.

I also wouldn't take it as a sign that YoshiP reads the Official forums. This isn't the only place where players leave feedback and talk about the game. He's already mentioned how he gets a lot of his information about player feedback (especially from NA and EU) from content creators like MrHappy.

[strawberrycake]

I see this as a failure on the part of the Community team. They are the ones that should be keeping the community up to date with game information being released by the developers outside of the Lodestone. It shouldn't be that difficult to have a weekly blog saying "YoshiP just did another series of interviews with gaming publications. Here are links to the published interview articles".

Sometimes it feels like the Community team has been tasked to interact with everyone except the player community. Don't call it a Community team if it's really a general marketing and publicity team.

I also wouldn't take it as a sign that YoshiP reads the Official forums. This isn't the only place where players leave feedback and talk about the game. He's already mentioned how he gets a lot of his information about player feedback (especially from NA and EU) from content creators like MrHappy.

I would LOVE a blog just detailing his JP interviews, and iirc the NA community managers are helping with events and translation for events at times, I know we have a new forum mod, but I never see or hear much from the NA community, and comparing them to the EU team who streams, it's kinda sad given i'd love an NA stream for us to talk about the game and push feed back through.

And honestly, I think Mr.Happy is the only affiliate we have left that actually does provide active feed back.

[Jojoya]

I would LOVE a blog just detailing his JP interviews, and iirc the NA community managers are helping with events and translation for events at times, I know we have a new forum mod, but I never see or hear much from the NA community, and comparing them to the EU team who streams, it's kinda sad given i'd love an NA stream for us to talk about the game and push feed back through.

And honestly, I think Mr.Happy is the only affiliate we have left that actually does provide active feed back.

There is a NA stream with the Community team - Duty Commenced. Think they get done every 4-6 weeks.

There are other content creators that offer feedback but MrHappy is better at identifying when something is his personal opinion (and when it's not representative of the general community) and when it's an opinion found in community feedback he's seen and read.

The big problem will always be the feedback from the silent majority. All SE can do is infer how the majority feels through what they choose to do in game and when they start/stop playing because those players aren't letting SE know what they actually feel.

Back to the topic of information released in interviews, if they're concerned about "maybes" in interviews being taken as gospel by players reading those interviews then those things shouldn't be included in interviews. As far as the interviewer is concerned, YoshiP or other developer is an official source and they're providing information they want shared.

If what is being shared is something under consideration but not finalized for implementation, then the Community team should be posting a blog to stress that the information is not a guarantee of what is to come because the interviewer may not make that point in their article. If an article gets published with misstatements, SE needs to be active in getting those misstatements corrected.