Quote Originally Posted by Stormfur View Post
I wish we could get a Community Manager in here to shed some light on how questions are chosen. If anything, that would help give us, the community/players, some guidance as to what to ask and how to phrase it so that the likelihood of it being asked would be higher.

I mean, yeah, they said "ask your burning questions" rather than around a certain topic, so it was pretty much a free-for-all. But I wish the community specialists would step in and say something like:

"Hey, we know X is important to you and we've noted that you've asked about it often. We're currently working on changes to X in the coming months, so please stay tuned as we'll have more information to share then."

Or even if it's not about 'kicking the can down the road', they could say something like:

"We understand that Y is important to players and it's important to us, too. Although we currently have no plans to integrate Y, because of (reason), rest assured that we hear you, and due to the nature of game development itself, this may change in the future."

I mean, that at least gives us a semblance of a yes/no and that our feedback is valued instead of "crickets".

Granted, the community managers' hands are probably tied too because things can EASILY get lost in translation/taken out of context. For example --

I asked a question about Gold Saucer rewards being updated to have a new "big shiny" thing to aim for. Perhaps it wasn't asked because (as an example) they're working on updates to the saucer that won't be live for another 3 months, but it may take as long as 6 months.

If they had said "we're working on adding new rewards to the saucer, but it will be a few more months until they are live" all the community would hear is "blitzball is coming".

See what I mean?
Actually ( a little off topic).

Yoshida showed up on Hyperion and told players that a new GS mini game was coming in 4.4 and it's not blitzball or snowboarding.

https://twitter.com/tackangel/status...25074358063104