Reddit vs. the Forums in the Graphics War of '24

[Moqi]

How a dev is supposed to gather useful, orderly, well constructed feedback from so many threads is beyond me.

If only there were people whose job is to gather data, discern what's meaningful and present it to the devs...

[Mouthbone]

If only there were people whose job is to gather data, discern what's meaningful and present it to the devs...

There are people like that, and they are currently tearing out their hair in clumps because they have to comb over dozens of pages of hysterics.
It's sad because threads with good feedback might get overlooked in favor of threads where people doompost because their characters were turned into unrecognizable monstrosities.

[Moqi]

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Go apply to SE then, why are you telling me lol. Some of you have some weird parasocial relationships with SE employees.

[DiaDeem]

Some of you have some weird parasocial relationships with SE employees.

Dude, all I'm saying is that whatever this place was supposed to be, in practice, is little more than a mess filled with a bunch of nonsense and bloated information that hardly helps anyone.

I'm out. I'm wasting my time.

[Fawkes]

I've been saying for months now that they should be sending curated surveys to get accurate direct feedback from people instead of whatever this forum has become, let alone a third party board such as Reddit or Twitter.

Here's a post from me 10 years ago:

Have you considered holding another player's poll to determine how players feel about content? Currently when talking about content you only seem to mention clear rates or number of people participating in it, but this doesn't take into account players who do content out of obligation rather than enjoyment. While the forums do provide some feedback, it is only a small slice of players. It would be nice to know if the game's current direction is in line with what the people playing it want.

In case you're wondering, they didn't respond. Feel discouraged yet?

[DiaDeem]

Here's a post from me 10 years ago:
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Have you considered holding another player's poll to determine how players feel about content? Currently when talking about content you only seem to mention clear rates or number of people participating in it, but this doesn't take into account players who do content out of obligation rather than enjoyment. While the forums do provide some feedback, it is only a small slice of players. It would be nice to know if the game's current direction is in line with what the people playing it want.
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In case you're wondering, they didn't respond. Feel discouraged yet?

[Somnolence]

If only there were people whose job is to gather data, discern what's meaningful and present it to the devs...

Yeah they are called Community Managers and seem to be completely MIA for FFXIV