Linkshell Management Recognition

[Rhomagus]

The primary complaint amongst members/leaders in most linkshells is that the tools are severely limiting and needlessly so. Recruiting and ousting members from a linkshell is counter intuitive at best. It is the case with most shells that they are constantly having to break and recreate their shells in order to purge their linkshell lists of people who have decided to leave on their own accord.

It becomes increasingly frustrating when new dev-tags are released and linkshell management is not among them. Some players have been so desperate for the recognition of this issue that they've posted the issue under "[Dev 1024] Crowd Control". There was a post made by Rukirii in that particular thread but the answer did not mesh with the information gleamed in "Letter from the Producer VIII" where Naoki Yoshida clarified that there were multiple specialized teams working on different aspects of the game.

I will personally be modifying/editing this post to present the progress so far in regards to this issue.

If you so choose, please check out and reply to the following threads, and incorporate your feedback here or in there, preferably both. After reading many of the posts already, it is clear that the issues are unanimous amongst the playerbase.

Day#1
First thread to provoke me into keeping track of this topic.

Day#2
Thread I noticed on the front page the day I created this thread.

Day#3
Randomly chosen posts I came across the day after the creation of this topic.

Day#4
Arguments against this topic/making threads about this topic.

A very thorough post from Poppa which is so important I feel the need to include it in the OP as it seems I'm not the only one who has done the legwork necessary to research this particular topic.

Hi Hvinire, thanks for the quick response and you guys are doing a good job.
However, I do not think that SE has done a good enough job of listening to the players concerns about this issue. Below is a list of links to forums about linkshell management (or lack of) since March. I apologize if i have missed some but my eyes started to burn after awhile. But with this overwhelming number of posts and forums why isnt there a dev tag for linkshells?
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ld-like-to-See
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...o-the-Producer
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...mple-Wish-List
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ive-Members%29
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-from-anywhere
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-it-s-long-%29
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-LS-management
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...from-Linkshell
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ell-Management
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...se-Features-go
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...gement-options
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...shell-features...
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...nt-Recognition
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ration-Options
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ing-linkshells
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l-Improvements
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...54-FFXIV-Fails.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ll=1#post84754
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...t-To-See/page5
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ell+Management
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ell+Management
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ell+Management
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ell+Management
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ell+Management
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ell+Management
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ell+Management
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ell+Management
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ell+Management
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ell+Management
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ell+Management
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ell+Management

Day#1 May 23, 2011 - Noticed a thread made by Keith_Dragoon
Day#2 May 24, 2011 - Created this thread
Day#3 May 25, 2011 - Posted thoughts from AngryNixon on common sense and Tonka on competency (pg.3)
Day#4 May 26, 2011 - Responded to statements against change by Kilta_Firelotus and Elexia. (pg. 4)