Quote Originally Posted by User201109011315 View Post
Did you just end up asking a host of questions about my questions?

That's a bit pointless.



I don't need permission/confirmation before I decide to use my brain and eyes.



That's a huge demotion to the armory system, and a pointless one.



Well if their first step is a wrong step, then that's a huge problem too and warrants explanation.



Well originally crafters crafted relevant things. Now are they just going to go around imbibing crap with materia? Battle classes get "role definition" and crafters get "role homogenization".



So either I am too ambiguous or I am too loaded. Make up your mind. Maybe it was a bit too open-ended. But that's the point; to give the developers room to dig themselves a grave without hinting what the right answer is. (Not that they will even read this anyway).



What? So even if the devs read my questions, which they won't anyway, you think they're too stupid to respond to a yes or no question with their own personalised elaboration? That's pretty rude of you to assume that of them.



I know two wrongs don't make a right, but why is Yoshi allowed to frame his questions poorly when making the player polls and yet I'm not allowed to do the same thing? Surely I should not be expected to hold myself to such a high standard when the questions I'm asking are merely an expression of my concerns rather than a scientific study. I'm not conducting a survey here. And anyway, the questions are only framed that way to exhibit the nature of my concern.

It's called hard-hitting journalism. Yeesh.
You make a good point about asking questions that address your concern. The problem i am trying to point out is that there are many assumptions that are driving your concern. Of course it is okay to make predictions based on the information given. But it is not okay to ask questions as if those assumptions are fact.

For example, instead of asking

Is the new Bard/archer an infringment on the differentiation between class and job?
which makes the assumption that the Bard/Archer is a fact, ask

Are the rumors of a bow/harp true? And if so, can this mean a new hybrid class or unique job? On top of that, will this possible "Bard/archer" be an infringment on the differentiation between class and job?
Also, the idea of "hard-hitting journalism" has a negative (yet ambitious) connotation for ignoring the truth in favor of scandal. You might want to choose a different term, or a different approach.