Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[cicatriz313]

It looked like they just chose the most upvoted comments. So if it's anyone's fault it's anyone who upvoted questions that had been asked before.

[Squintina]

It looked like they just chose the most upvoted comments. So if it's anyone's fault it's anyone who upvoted questions that had been asked before.

That is not accurate.

I know at least one question (one of mine that was chosen) had 22 upvotes - whereas another one of my questions (that wasn't chosen) had 38 upvotes. There were a variety of questions from other players that I would have liked to see answered but weren't picked that had 24-40 upvotes. For example, literally the second question had 29 upvotes and it was about healer job balance - why wasn't that chosen over my 22 upvoted one? Or the 32-upvoted one about whether the "6 months to overhaul DRK" would mean there was a chance that it might be in 4.4"?

And the "replay story instances" question? That one had 30 upvotes. Once again, there were other questions upvoted higher than that one too.

So no, it's not a pure "these are the top questions".

They also didn't give a topic. Usually for the Q&A, the first post will say a topic. This time it was literally "Ask your most burning questions" - a free for all.

Besides, they should be picking questions they want to answer, not just questions that have high upvotes, because most people do not read past the first 5-10 pages and the last page (at any given time). Which means people who aren't among the first one are at a disadvantage when it comes to having their questions picked even if they were good.

There is one thing you're sort of right about, but I'll spin it in a different way, about the community's upvotes.
Rather than blaming that those are the highest rated I'll point this out: The highest rated question had 106 upvotes. There are thousands of players, yet this is the highest upvote. (And it wasn't chosen. Admittedly it was about the greed in alliance, but that would have been such an easy answer "We just put Need back in so please enjoy". ).

That we don't get more people willing to upvote questions they approve of...well..I think anyone who hated the questions picked should ask themselves: did I go through even 10 pages worth and upvoted the ones I liked and submitted what I thought should have been asked? Anyone who didn't participate in the process has NO right to complain.