Is having an Official Forums good for FFXIV?

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the part is disagree with is about the polls.

the polls are a very good representation of the players. they can at least figure out from the polls what the people that actually play the game like and dislike and what they want to see make it into the game to make it better. granted, it's not going to be 100% correct in what the mmo genre in general wants, but it does give alot more insight into what the players want.

in other words i will use auto attack for an example. i hate auto attack and i see many people that did do battle that have either stopped playing or have decided to do only dol/doh classes. if they had a poll and asked would people rather have seen auto attack or them to made changes to the system in place to make it more strategic and fluid i could have actually looked at the poll results and and seen if i was in the majority or minority.

i am more willing to accept something if i see the majority feels one way. i can look at the poll results and say " i may not agree with it, but since the majority wants it then it's probably better for the future of the game"

so, yes, i do agree for the most part that the forums are counterproductive they do have some good points, but i completely disagree about player polls. i believe if we had more polls with more direct questions on the direction to take the game we would have had alot less threads complaining when parts of the game people liked were removed or changed if the majority was for the change.

The thing about the poll is that it actually, just like the forum, does not reflect the playerbase will. Its just the same people that post here but, this time, voting annonymously...sometimes using mules too to inflate results and stuff.

IMO poll would only be valid if they were made ingame. Like placing an NPC, you answer his survey, receive a prize (prize to stimulate participation) and gogo...but a poll here, like last 2, have no real value.

And about what you said regarding AA, i agree completely...so much i'm one of those that just don't fight anymore...now i only craft and do gathering...and what you said is what i'm afraid that will happen...over time people might just leave because they are not pleased to the game...and right now i see this game collapsing the moment they decide charging...not because they're doing the wrong things, but because they're basing the decisions on a minority opinion.

I REALLY wanted to see how many players answered the first and second polls.