Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
They haven't censored anything. We have multiple threads of the same discussion point. .
The act of deleting a thread is censorship, as it's that they are hiding that people are unsubbing, and not hiding that people have concerns over WHM.
Announcing to a company on their official forums you're quitting without any constructive criticism beyond "these changes suck!" is meaningless.
As for telling a company that you quit while saying only "these changes suck"! is actually incredibly meaningful. It shows that at least some players are unsubscribing due to these changes. While it doesn't offer a solution, not everything needs to. Customer feedback that simply says, "I was unsatisfied with this product/change" is actually valuable as well.

The person in question made a thread that amount to little more than "I'm quitting!" So... quit. Don't announce it like we're supposed to care.
They are posting it on the forums for the community reps to pass onto the devs, because I assure you they care. A recent interview, Yoshi actually said to use the official forums to provide your feedback (https://www.jeuxvideo-live.com/news/...tasy-xiv-85195). Notably, Yoshi says...
We really wish players would share their feedback and ideas extensively on the forum. We have a significant social team around the world that analyze players situation so we would be grateful if could continue to use the forum to drop your feedback
Meanwhile, another person made a similar thread but explained her disappointment with White Mage and why the changes deflated her interest. That's a good talking point; something worth discussing
Two things are able to be valuable, one being more valuable doesn't make the first worthless. Having the feedback that they've quit over something is useful information.

Which, to be fair, is what they seem to be doing. Relevant threads discussing White Mage's core changes have been merged, not deleted. Signing your character name isn't a discussion point, hence why they locked it. I do agree though, they should have a separate section for Stormblood.
I am talking about pro-active organization, rather than reactive. Interestingly, this is actually kind of on-topic of WHM, a healer which is much more reactive, vs the proactive SCH/AST. If they pro-actively made the subforums and threads in anticipation of the Live Letter, it would have helped focus discussion a lot better.

Signing people's names provides information to the dev team. There isn't discussion, but there is feedback.