To Square/Yoshida

[PrincessFrey]

Didnt know where else to post this and frankly I dont care if i get flamed, forum banned, etc over it.

I came to Eorzea to enjoy my time and life here. To be free to be the little Au Ra i currently am. I can't do that anymore. I am scared of the game and the community enough that I avoid it because twelve forbid I might be reported and banned for trivial opinion based bullshit. If SE caters yet again to the vocal whiners, i am done with SE as a whole. XIV was great at first but ever since Coil 2 and the savage releases its been slipping into this... toxic pool that just keeps getting worse.

For the sake of Eorzea and MMO standards as a whole, SquareEnix and Yoshida, please for the love of Halone, stop bowing down to those who scream the loudest. It's those of us that stay quiet and try to enjoy what we are given that really appreciate your work and enjoy the story. I am begging you, make XIV the way you envisioned it, not the way everyone "wants" it.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Then more people need to speak up then. You can't speak for "those that do not speak" if they don't speak up to begin with or if they even share the same views as you.

[SpookyGhost]

XIV is a sub based MMO. Pretty sure it's wise of them to get community feedback to retain those subs.

[Marcellus_Cassius]

Tell them to bring back player polls then.

[PrincessFrey]

Issue is is that when we DO try to give feedback we get reported and forum banned 9/10 times. It's happened to several of my friends hence why we are "quiet". We are silenced by those that prefer to abuse the system so that we can't be heard so they can keep going on about getting their way. that is also why I have been quiet until now because I have nothing to lose anymore, if a bunch of jerks wanna report me because I may damage their current style of gameplay and end up getting me forum banned then i really don't care so why not try to make my stance and if I fall then at least I didn't lose anything because of it.

[Cakekizyy]

Issue is is that when we DO try to give feedback we get reported and forum banned 9/10 times. It's happened to several of my friends hence why we are "quiet". We are silenced by those that prefer to abuse the system so that we can't be heard so they can keep going on about getting their way. that is also why I have been quiet until now because I have nothing to lose anymore, if a bunch of jerks wanna report me because I may damage their current style of gameplay and end up getting me forum banned then i really don't care so why not try to make my stance and if I fall then at least I didn't lose anything because of it.

Then give feedback privately, not in open forum.

[PrincessFrey]

They honestly dont read the ingame feedback stuff. They listen to the forums and fanfest and the live chat feeds during live letter Q/As.

[MomomiMomi]

If you get forum banned then perhaps you should watch how you say what you say.

[Snugglebutt]

Issue is is that when we DO try to give feedback we get reported and forum banned 9/10 times...

They would not forum ban you just for giving feedback...you would only get forum banned based on how you gave it like how rude and insulting you may have been. If you are not rude or insulting then no matter how many people file a report you would not get banned especially not 9/10 times. To get banned 9/10 times you would have to have been extremely rude, abusive and insulting towards others in which case maybe stop doing that and voice your feedback in a mature and respectful way.

[SpookyGhost]

They listen to the forums and fanfest and the live chat feeds during live letter Q/As.

They rarely, if ever, do that either tbf. A common complaint is that Yoshi-P and co. will only change something if a massive amount of people agree with it, you can see that in how quickly WAR got fixed vs how quickly PLD got fixed. Even if it is highly requested they can still ignore it or make an excuse not to implement it. If you want XIV to stay how it is now, you'll probably (largely) get your wish, so I wouldn't worry too much.