Can I ask why Creative Business Unit 3 are radio silent on the issue of Forked Tower?

[Amarande]

Even then, the next patch is somewhere in the first half of August, and I'll be surprised if OC is still alive at that point.

It probably will technically be, but mostly sustained by Forked Tower runs (largely due to the intense amount of backlogging introduced by how quickly runs fill up and the harder difficulty meaning people will usually need more prog sessions; also the fact that it takes at least TEN full clears to get enough Sanguinite to afford a full set of +2), the fact that +2 gear requires you to get lucky on three field chests per piece, and the fact that CEs are a comfortable ride for tomestone capping that does not depend on happening to be on at the right time for Dawntrail Hunt Trains ...

Lying about your prog point is bad, news at 11. No bad or lazy player should expect to get carried by those that have put more effort into learning a fight of a high difficulty.

Again, if only it was out and out liars. "Prog lying" paranoia taints everything, as players are basically asked to be as pessimistic as possible about evaluating their prog whenever they join a group (only the common advice tied to the score system on Mythic+ WoW really compares here in degree) and it frequently turns off new people from joining the content altogether (which, unfortunately, I expect is being considered a feature, not a bug, by the people that beat the drum about prog lying ...)

Apperently they *are* now going to talk about this at the LL on Friday; clicking on the article on Lodestone it says "Part One: Addressing Player Feedback on Cosmic Exploration and the Occult Crescent". At this point I don't know what to expect, but pleasantly surprised they even are (this means the JP playerbase were annoyed).

Yep, JP is annoyed, I actually read a 2ch thread that was linked (from reddit, I think?) and even with the Google translating it's clear that they're on their last straws. Excoriating comments towards Yoshi, Discord organization being called bullying, and some kind of comment about "ten yen" that I'm not entirely able to grok because I don't know Japanese culture well enough (but I do know that a 10 yen coin is worth about as much as a US dime).

I'm curious as to what "player" feedback will actually be addressed though, because SE seem to have had some kind of terribly out of touch idea of what "the community" actually is (compare the supposed community desire for a harder expansion with how Dawntrail and its endgame is actually being experienced by most actual players I encounter!).