Dev Responses

[Phenidate]

Lately I've noticed a fairly annoying trend in dev responses on this forum.

In the past two weeks there has been all of two replies made in the Gameplay sub-forum.

In comparison, the General Discussion sub-forum has seen many times more reponses regarding gameplay feedback and requests. This would mean to find anything meaningful, rather than go to a forum where these issues have been posted days prior to the one in General Discussion, the dev must also sift through the myriad knee-jerk whining, troll and drama queen quit threads.

What exactly is the point of wasting time in the Gameplay sub-forum if these posts are apparently going to be ignored? [dev####] tags certainly seem to do nothing now and all focus is more or less thrown at this general discussion forum...

For example there are about 2 or 3 posts in the Gameplay forum discussing Auto Attack initiation and its interaction with active/passive and these have been on going for several days.

So instead of a response to one of these threads in the correct forum, a thread that more or less devolved into an argument over controllers vs. keyboard/mouse gets a dev response.

If you wish to submit feedback or make suggestions about the game, please make a post in the appropriate forum.

Is that rule no longer valid?

[Rentahamster]

Is that rule no longer valid?

I would like to see this rule enforced a little more strictly. Encouraging everyone to throw their stuff into "general discussion" is really bad for organization and makes it harder to find relevant threads.

[Nixius]

I don't see as many dev responses in the 'feedback & suggestions' forum as in the general forum, which is odd... Still, at least we have devs engaging with us at all right =)?

[Phenidate]

Its great they are responding yes, but it'd be great if they responded to the people who follow the rules more so.

This post will probably get ignored for being here to, but it would be horribly hypocritical for me to put it in the general discussion forum.

[Rentahamster]

I don't see as many dev responses in the 'feedback & suggestions' forum as in the general forum, which is odd... Still, at least we have devs engaging with us at all right =)?

Well, this is actually the forum for feedback on the lodestone website and the forum, not feedback on the game.

[Phenidate]

EDIT: Disregard what I say below, I can't read it seems >_<

Well, this is actually the forum for feedback on the lodestone website and the forum, not feedback on the game.

Did... did you even read the OP?

The whole point of most of these forums [not just this forum, the OTHER forums for feedback that apparently the Devs and you have forgotten about] is for getting feedback to the devs and hearing responses back on that feedback.

Letting the devs know we want them to check and respond on relevant issues in the correct forums, and stop encouraging them in the wrong ones... is pretty much in line with feedback regarding the forums in this specific forum.

[Rentahamster]

Did... did you even read the OP?

The whole point of most of these forums [not just this forum, the OTHER forums for feedback that apparently the Devs and you have forgotten about] is for getting feedback to the devs and hearing responses back on that feedback.

Letting the devs know we want them to check and respond on relevant issues in the correct forums, and stop encouraging them in the wrong ones... is pretty much in line with feedback regarding the forums in this specific forum.

What? I know what your OP is talking about and I agree with it, as per my first post.

I was responding to Nixius, who said, "I don't see as many dev responses in the 'feedback & suggestions' forum as in the general forum, which is odd... Still, at least we have devs engaging with us at all right =)?"

Which means that he thinks it's strange that the there are not many dev posts in this section. Which indicates that he thinks this section of the forum is for game feedback, which it is not. Which is why I explained to him that this "feedback and suggestions" for the website and forums only, hence no dev posts regarding game content.

I know you posted this thread in the right forum section. I wasn't addressing that at all.

[Bayohne]

We are aware of the issue that you're posting about. It's hard for us to say "yes, we will only respond to topics in posts that are made in the correct forum." We usually respond to topics that have major discussions and as I'm sure you can see, that is more often than not the General Discussion forum. "Why don't you move the threads to the appropriate forums then?" Because then we'd be spending most of our day doing just that. I'll make sure we try to strike a true balance on where we respond, but I assure you that even the "small topics" in the right forum are being seen. You can be sure that those view numbers next to the topic, 9 times out of 10, one of them is us.

We'll try harder!

[Rentahamster]

"Why don't you move the threads to the appropriate forums then?" Because then we'd be spending most of our day doing just that.

I know that's not your job, but isn't that what the mods like Bacchanale are supposed to be doing? Or are they too busy editing all the personal attacks that all the children love to keep dishing out

[Lienn]

We are aware of the issue that you're posting about. It's hard for us to say "yes, we will only respond to topics in posts that are made in the correct forum." We usually respond to topics that have major discussions and as I'm sure you can see, that is more often than not the General Discussion forum. "Why don't you move the threads to the appropriate forums then?" Because then we'd be spending most of our day doing just that. I'll make sure we try to strike a true balance on where we respond, but I assure you that even the "small topics" in the right forum are being seen. You can be sure that those view numbers next to the topic, 9 times out of 10, one of them is us.

We'll try harder!

Well, could at least move the ones that receive dev response to the correct forum then...its not like you guys reply every forum anyway ^^: And i agree with renta...putting these GMs to place forum would be a good thing.