Meet the Devs! (?)

[Randis]

Are we talking about developer (people who actually work on the game, programmer, artists) or SE employer in general?
Coz usually marketing people, community manager and so on are not part of the development team and often (mostly when based in other countries) have no means of communication with the dev team other than maybe the project manager, producer.

Most developer usually take a look in official forums. Most people working in this industry love doing what they do and usually are much interest in some feedback from their fans and consumers.
You can assume that people look around the forums, however i would not expect any spontanious posts.
As pointed out earlier, all employees are usually under tight NDA, you may get tech support and moderation but i would not expect any other statements and info.

[Balbanes]

Well really I intended this to be for the community managers and Mods (CMs show up in the Dev Tracker) - I know the actual game programmers are 1) dealing with the issues in Japan and 2) probably don't speak much English.

[Linkurrra]

lol seriously? how can the Devs compete with a rabid community of thousands when they are just a mere 30-50 ppl?

I've seen enough in the Dev Tracker to know they are listening. But they really need to spend their time developing. Not to mention the developers natively speak Japanese, it takes alot of patience and effort for them to speak in english. Yeah they could just convert int google translator. But they don't, they take the time to translate their posts so they don't come out in broken english.

yeah they could post more, especially the community managers and moderators. Not so much the Devs. They do well, with what they do post!

[TonyMontana]

lol seriously? how can the Devs compete with a rabid community of thousands when they are just a mere 30-50 ppl?

I've seen enough in the Dev Tracker to know they are listening. But they really need to spend their time developing. Not to mention the developers natively speak Japanese, it takes alot of patience and effort for them to speak in english. Yeah they could just convert int google translator. But they don't, they take the time to translate their posts so they don't come out in broken english.

yeah they could post more, especially the community managers and moderators. Not so much the Devs. They do well, with what they do post!

Imagine if they hired some people(forum mods) who spoke/read/wrote multiple languages fluently. Those people do exist.

[Randis]

Yes they probably are not all fluent in english But i am sure they lurk in the forums sometimes

yes i see... I agree, some introduction would be nice

[Linkurrra]

Imagine if they hired some people(forum mods) who spoke/read/wrote multiple languages fluently. Those people do exist.

yeah I'm aware those ppl do exist.

My point mainly was ppl just can't expect personalized responses to everything posted on a forum. I used to be a forum moderator. And you can try to read as much as you can till your eyes bleed. You'll never be able to read at the same rate ppl post on the threads.

In fact the Tagging system is the first I have seen on a forum. This works quite well for them to get focused feedback from the forums. As long as ppl don't abuse it.

But when I search by tags, you can almost setup RSS feeds on particular subjects! It makes reading topics on a forum far more efficient. And to be honest, cuts out most all the unnecessary "crap" other ppl post.