Quote Originally Posted by Xmbei View Post
On top of all the other responses on this forum. Hey Azur if you think you can do so much better. Let us put you in charge of a worldwide multi-language MMO and see how long it will take for you to collapse under the pressure of the people and the corporation. I bet you wouldn't last a week before you start making posts about "I am sorry I can't give you the info you demand, because we are still in the development stages of said product." or you would just have a nervous breakdown and disappear. Don't bash something if you don't understand what is going on behind the scenes, and when you honestly can't do better. Now maybe you can do better... but seriously until you can prove otherwise you have no room to "toot your horn".

Edit: On top of all that the "lack of communication"?!?!?! Are you kidding me?!?!?!? We have 200% if not more communication then we ever did under Tanaka's reign on FFXI and FFXIV. It was until people raged so hard on here for a forum, and he was removed from his pet project 2.0, FFXIV, that he went... "oh... damn... I really should listen to the people.... here you go FFXI you have your own forum's now"
I run a successful e-marketing + economic/political consulting firm so I doubt i would break under the pressure and honestly, any marketing firm on this planet should be able to turn this game's PR around in days. That's one of the reasons I post things like this. Like I mentioned. One PR professional and 1 cultural anthropologist would fix all the problems. Instead of releasing info all over the place in multiple languages they could phrase the info in a way making it difficult for people to rage, center debates into single threads, and properly translate things so that they mesh with the culture they are being released for.

And companies that communicate well do not spawn 100s of speculation threads. If communication was good there would be no speculation because people would be clear on issues. People speculating non stop and saying "they said this" "no they said this" "well they said that but havnt mentioned it since" "they are thinking about it" is clear proof from a PR perspective of incredibly poor communications.