In 12 years the game hasn't innovated

[Kaurhz]

Fully agree. The forums feel more like a void to yell into, with how much stuff from here gets blatantly ignored. Not just odd takes mind you, some good and genuine well meant criticism is often swept aside. (semi related, any one remember the reaction to the feedback from the White Mage Gauge back during its conception?)

Plus I'd argue that it is not the place of the customer to always provide constructive criticism. We are customers of a product. If a group loudly enough yells "we are dissatisfied", and the game developers really want to know why, they can send out feedback questionnaires en masse to paint themselves a more objective and streamlined picture without sifting through loads and loads of text. They could also just properly design the exit survey for when people do quit to properly understand why they do instead of assuming its because players don't have enough time to play anymore.

ETA: like, I really don't want to sound so negative all the time, and I truly hope the devs find a better way for us players to convey our feelings and our feedback for this game that is not "write in this forum and hope someone reads what you have written."

Agreed.. I have partly given up trying to give criticism.. These days I will just debate more than anything, as I don't really think anything will change.

I think a lot of the feedback is more constructive than some posters would like to admit... Perhaps a bit of tone policing.. But like, even if I find Valence's post a bit dramatic in terms of innovation... There's a lot you can infer from it (e.g., perhaps we should actually look at updating hunts/FATEs etc., -- Sure some are unique, but at the core they have gone unchanged since the games inception).

Tone aside, if someone handed this to me I would have a bit to work with... It's really up to the developers to determine what to infer from the feedback.

I don't think we need a better way to convey our feelings.. I just think there needs to be more engagement generally from the developer side, they can change it in 327427361 different ways... But if it's just a different platform etc., then as long as the engagement isn't there, it will just be same result, different method.