Bring back Q&A for the next liveletters please

[Kaurhz]

Usually I would be for something like this, but.... Honestly, it won't solve anything.

Questions they won't want an answer to will get some redirected non-answer comment... and the questions they do actually answer will be questions that we don't really need an answer to, or serve no purpose to the game.

[Valence]

Usually I would be for something like this, but.... Honestly, it won't solve anything.

Questions they won't want an answer to will get some redirected non-answer comment... and the questions they do actually answer will be questions that we don't really need an answer to, or serve no purpose to the game.

You'd actually be surprised by all the things that got actually answered over time, and how it could give a lot of clues. Like how they decided to shift the job balance away from job difficulty (early SB release Q&A LL37 or something), which ironically have stated later past ShB that they still do.
But I do agree that a lot of points of contention channeled inside questions have most of the time had Yoshida reply with a classic yoshi answer along the lines of "it's difficult, on one hand, we have players that are bored with healers, but on the other hand when we raised healing difficulty of savage it was an outcry so we're still thinking on it", where eventually we never get a follow up on where they ultimately decided their direction would go.
And that's the whole problem, they do absolutely refuse to talk about their direction and vision for what they want, leaving everybody in the dark and frustrated about it. And then we get presented with done deals and people complain.

[Daralii]

You'd actually be surprised by all the things that got actually answered over time, and how it could give a lot of clues. Like how they decided to shift the job balance away from job difficulty (early SB release Q&A LL37 or something), which ironically have stated later past ShB that they still do.
But I do agree that a lot of points of contention channeled inside questions have most of the time had Yoshida reply with a classic yoshi answer along the lines of "it's difficult, on one hand, we have players that are bored with healers, but on the other hand when we raised healing difficulty of savage it was an outcry so we're still thinking on it", where eventually we never get a follow up on where they ultimately decided their direction would go.
And that's the whole problem, they do absolutely refuse to talk about their direction and vision for what they want, leaving everybody in the dark and frustrated about it. And then we get presented with done deals and people complain.

Even when they talk about doing something definitively, there's no guarantee that they'll actually do it. They said ahead of EW's release that rewards from old Crystalline Conflict seasons would go into the trophy crystal store, they maintained radio silence on it until 2025, and the new stance is that they're thinking about maybe doing it at some point.